Some make it. Some don't.

[Mik]

Hallmark shows are a reportedly a pretty good gig for actors. If you look at IMDB, most actors are not stars, but working folks.

MFR likes the channel. All the people are good looking and fundamentally nice. Even the criminals. It's formulaic (all the movies have a ball or a festival of some sort), but it can be a welcome break from all the ever darker dramas.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in Some make it. Some don't.:

It's always interesting how a few make it big, some struggle along for a few years and some don't make it at all.

Yeah, but Game B is absolutely a thing now. I can't tell you how many people I know who have "made it": not in the traditional sense, and sure as hell not on any traditional platform. They're involved in a small handful of revenue streams that are independent enough to be stable long-term, and they're doing what they love. It's possible now. But the viable model looks completely different from what folks presume.

[89th]

@Jolly said in Some make it. Some don't.:

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[Jolly]

@89th said in Some make it. Some don't.:

@Jolly said in Some make it. Some don't.:

Now 30 40

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You are correct.

[George K]

Looking at "B-list" actors on IMDB, it's amazing how steady some of them are in terms of gigs. Some are, of course, a flash in the pan, but some end up doing 1-2 episodes of a series every other year or so. I have no idea how well that kind of job pays, but it's steady work.

And then take some "A-list" people who have a major hit, or three, and then do nothing for years and years.

A great actor like J K Simmons (who won an Oscar for "Whiplash") had a fun series that lasted only two year ("Counterpart"), and now he's doing commercials for Farmer's Insurance. I suppose that pays pretty well, especially if you have a golden statue on your mantle.

What would kill me is the unpredictability.

[Mik]

Yeah, but his IMDB filmography is amazing. He does boatloads of stuff every year.

[Axtremus]

I used watched quite a bit of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon programmings, and most of them feature lots of young actors. Most of them very talented, but most of them also don't "make it" as actors/singers/entertainers after they grow into adulthood. No doubt some of them left the business by choice, though I rather suspect most of them left due to limited demand and intense competition among adult actors.

[Copper]

Good jobs get a lot of talented applicants.

[Mik]

Hey Jolly - they're royalty!

https://www.thelist.com/179407/hallmark-channel-actors-the-untold-truth-of-the-networks-stars/

[Jolly]

Well, they're still churning out product. I read some stuff on Bure's latest...They COVID tested the crew and actors, then flew all of them to Canada and sequestered them in a hotel.

For two movies, filmed back to back!

[Larry]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Some make it. Some don't.:

@Jolly said in Some make it. Some don't.:

It's always interesting how a few make it big, some struggle along for a few years and some don't make it at all.

Yeah, but Game B is absolutely a thing now. I can't tell you how many people I know who have "made it": not in the traditional sense, and sure as hell not on any traditional platform. They're involved in a small handful of revenue streams that are independent enough to be stable long-term, and they're doing what they love. It's possible now. But the viable model looks completely different from what folks presume.

I should tell the music industry version of what you're talking about. Youre exactly correct that things are very different from what folks presume.