CBS liked Super Clyde enough to develop it two times (2013 and 2015), filming a full pilot each time. I just don't think they trust their ability to launch a single cam sitcom (or rather, they don't have great patience with expensive single-cams, see: Angel From Hell). The Millers was pretty obviously Greg Garcia's…

Eh, new CBS single-cams haven't struggled any more than new single-cams on any other network. They're just more expensive to produce and aren't returning better ratings results than their multi-cams, so there's no real incentive for CBS to try that much there.

I already told you this is a multicam sitcom. You really think McHale knows that?

Oh, my conspiracy theory is that CBS had to pay a lot for Joel and he's taking the (pretty safe) gamble that this won't get picked up, he gets paid handsomely for the pilot, and he gets to maybe focus on a movie career? I don't know. I'm not Joel McHale.

CBS is literally only multi-cam or hybrid this pilot season.

Thanks for editing the post - it's nice to be able to set aside the personal assumptions and attacks and just discuss the actual issue. That's what I'm finding interesting and fun here.

I'll provide links for the $100,000 for Hannibal and $225,000 for Californication. In a different post, I looked at other hard data comparing their two careers. Yeah, there is a whole lot we don't know, but from what we do know, it doesn't look good.

Doesn't need to equal same pay, but half is ridiculous and is not supported by their respective careers. Let's speculate what the actual offers were for a moment.

Pretty clear that the last time she was offered a starring role would be The Fall, which is headed into its (improbable) third season. That it's BBC produced makes the salary comparison difficult, but since it's Netflix distributed in the States and critically lauded it's definitely been talked about more recently…

Yeah, for more than twice the work. If I get $1000 for ten hours of work and you get $2000 for forty hours of work, you'd make more money than me but couldn't command an equal wage to me.

I do think her BBC appeal did help her land Hannibal and get a nice salary for it ($100,000 versus Laurence Fishbourne's $175,000, which if you consider the size of the roles and their respective careers is pretty solid). That NBC would care about that does really have to do with the weird voodoo way Hannibal was…

AV Club didn't make it clear, but Anderson does - she was offered half of what Duchovny was offered. A like-for-like comparison.

Yeah, it seems like the overall crux of the argument is whether or not one considers Californication a hit comedy. Seven years on Showtime isn't the same thing as seven years on, well, pretty much any other network considering Showtime's house policy is to keep on renewing shows for as long as possible. Without being…

David Duchovny was being paid $225,000 an episode by the end of Californication. Anderson got $100,000 an episode for her guest spots in Hannibal. Considering the difference between being a lead and being a guest star, they're pretty clearly in the same pay grade. At the very least, he's not usually making twice as…

Can you provide proof that he's worth more as a brand? Otherwise you're just begging the question here.

BBC posh period dramas and Hannibal are totally reflected in her awards totals and average Metacritic score. I left them out of "leading an American broadcast network show" for the same reason I left out Californication - it's too difficult to compare apples to oranges when paying someone for a Fox miniseries. If they…

Not to suggest IMDB is infallible, but it's the data we do have. So, let's compare StarMeters?