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| Written By Rick
Ellis, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 Cable network Lifetime has picked up rights to the reruns of "Medium," beginning in 2009. Lifetime is paying an estimated $1.2 million per episode for rights to the Paramount-produced drama which NBC currently airs on Monday nights. While that figure is well below the record $2 million plus per episode paid by Spike TV for reruns of "CSI," it was a substantial enough amount to keep Paramount from also offering a weekend window of rights to broadcast TV stations. That weekend package is an increasingly common deal, and one that likely would have been a lucrative one for the Patricia Arquette drama. This deal is one of the first announced by Lifetime's new entertainment president Susanne Daniels, who told the Hollywood Reporter that "We think this smart and absorbing drama depicting a woman in all of the complexity of her life, juggling a normal family with an extremely unusual line of work, will resonate strongly with our audience and make an outstanding addition to our schedule." |
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