KING'S RANSOM
So who really is king of the castle? Following weeks of intense negotiations — and helped along by the absence of Everybody Loves Raymond as CBS' favorite child — Leah Remini has inked a deal for another year of CBS' King of Queens. The actress effectively tripled her salary, insiders tell Variety, and now enjoys a payday somewhere in the same neighborhood as leading man Kevin James, who nets $400,000 per episode for his role as King's lovable lug. (James also gets a second paycheck as a producer.) The buzz is that the Queens twosome now might be network television's highest-paid stars, although
So who really is king of the castle? Following weeks of intense negotiations and helped along by the absence of Everybody Loves Raymond as CBS' favorite child Leah Remini has inked a deal for another year of CBS' King of Queens. The actress effectively tripled her salary, insiders tell Variety, and now enjoys a payday somewhere in the same neighborhood as leading man Kevin James, who nets $400,000 per episode for his role as King's lovable lug. (James also gets a second paycheck as a producer.) The buzz is that the Queens twosome now might be network television's highest-paid stars, although Matt LeBlanc takes in a tidy sum for entertaining Joey's remaining viewers.