[ZGuy]

Did the actors with contracts get paid even though they couldn’t work? I’m thinking of Keifer Sutherland, for example, who has a 3-year contract for “24”. Was he paid just as a football player with a guaranteed contract is paid even when he can’t play due to injury?

[PzLdr]

Think they paid him when he was in jail?

[Calvin Locke]

My guess is that boilerplate contracts have a force majeure clause.

And, I heard the networks used it as a broad axe to clean house, and to cancel a lot of contracts with production companies of existing weak, and future shows.

Read this "old" article on the situation Gulp! Force Majeure Letters In The Mail as an example.

If you don't know Nikki Finke, she was on Drudge's radio show frequently, commenting on whatever event or scandal was breaking at the time.

[BurbankKarl]

Nope.