Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20140611175905/@comment-14284535-20140615063438

@M oden - I don't know how closely you have read you work contracts, but the stuff Nick could have put into Jennette's may shock you. I am going to assume their lawyers are top notch and wrote the contracts with some of the harshest clauses I have heard from Hollyweird and other media. So while S&C is not cancelled:

They don't have to accept a buyout. They can force her to return all the money she has made from S&C plus an indemnity payment. They can force her to issue a live, public statement apologizing to Ariana and Nick for her behaviour, thus absolving them of responsibility. They can force her to sign a permanent NDA. They can sue any media company that even talks to her about a for-profit broadcast or a paying gig and get a permanent injunction. If she buys out, she may not associate publicly with anyone under contract to Nick, such as Miranda, Nathan, Maddie, and Victoria plus their friends and relatives.

Sources: Bill Waterson's Calvin & Hobbes 10th anniversary book; the agreements between BBC and various people on the Doctor Who production staff after the 1985 hiatus, the contractual issues during the production of "The Trial of a Time Lord," and the cancellation of the series as reported in DWM; the contacts leaked when Valerie Harper was fired from her own show; Berke Breathed's first interview after the end of "Outland"; the firing of Gates McFadden during season 2 of ST:TNG; Gary Larson's comments from "The Prehistory of 'The Far Side'"; a reading of my own contracts over the years; and some contractual issues that people I know have had to deal with recently.