Another surprising tidbit was that Tattletales was CBS\'s most profitable show. I guess that\'s because they didn\'t give away that much prize money to contestants, although paying six celebrities must have cost a bit.
Obviously, you\'re stretching the definition of celebrity a bit when you include spouses, but it does raise an interesting economic question. I\'d be curious to know how much the spouses were paid, or more precisely, how they arrived at a figure. I seem to recall that there was a set figure that most of the celebs were paid, which implies that a union played a part in determining that figure. The same agreement might have included a figure for spouses, or they might have thought that one show wasn\'t worth negotiating over. I don\'t imagine that most of the spouses belonged to a union such as SAG or AFTRA, even though they were functioning in a capacity that those unions represent. (I can think of two people here who might possibly have some knowledge on this question.)
