Profit From Reruns: $60 Million So Far
As another part of the CSI family, NCIS is set around Navy investigator Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon. The show first aired in 2003, and is still going! Harmon earns about an eighth of a million dollars per episode, and with hundreds of episodes bringing in that sweet rerun money.
Two more shows have spun off this long-runner, but the original NCIS is the seventh-longest primetime television series in the US. This means Harmon is set to make enough money to put all of his great-grandchildren through college. Right now the number is a mere sixty million.
Morena Baccarin: Gotham
Profit From Reruns: $10,000 a Year
Morena Baccarin plays Doctor Leslie Thompkins on "Gotham", who ends up married to Jim Gordon. The chemistry didn't stop there – Baccarin and Ben McKenzie (Gordon's actor) got married in 2017.
"Gotham" proved popular with Batman and superhero fans. Baccarin is a certified geek icon, having played Inara on "Firefly", Vanessa in "Deadpool", and she's also appeared in the shows "The Mentalist" and "Homeland". From reruns of "Gotham", she earns up to ten thousand dollars a year. The show just ended, and reruns are still going strong on top of being a Netflix favorite.
Drake: Degrassi
Profit From Reruns: $8.62 So Far
Long before he was one of the biggest rappers in the world, Drake got his start as an actor. He played Jimmy Brooks, a basketball star in the Canadian teen drama "Degrassi" from 2001 to 2008.
The show ran for a total of fourteen seasons, and despite playing a popular character on a popular show, Drake can barely buy a meal with what he gets each month. He recently posted a picture of a residual check online, a grand total of $8.62. He probably doesn't even bother cashing them, since he's one of the wealthiest musicians in the world with a net worth in the hundreds of millions.
David Schwimmer: Friends
Profit From Reruns: $20 Million a Year
In "Friends", Schwimmer played the archaeologist who thankfully ends up with Jennifer Aniston's character. Like Matt LeBlanc, he's getting twenty million dollars a year thanks to reruns and syndication.
His career is going strong thanks to roles in the animated "Madagascar" movies and the recent Netflix movie "The Laundromat", with Meryl Streep. His famous line “We were on a break!” is still popular online as a meme. Based on the popularity of the show on Netflix and other streaming services, all six of the principal actors will continue to earn big.
Carol Burnett: The Carol Burnett Show
Profit From Reruns: One Penny Per DVD
"The Carol Burnett Show" broke new ground when it came to television. Carol Burnett was a female comedian who ran a sketch show with thousands of small segments that still get plenty of laughs today.
With eleven seasons and plenty of reruns to show, you'd think Carol would be sitting pretty, but it wasn't to be. Reruns had to cut out music due to copyrights, which reduced the amount she got for each show. Her most recent contract grants her a single penny for each DVD sold. Thankfully, Burnett is getting a little help from her recent Netflix show, "A Little Help".