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Chris Pratt has topped Variety's list of highest-paid TV stars with a staggering $1.4million per episode for the Amazon Prime thriller The Terminal List.
The boom in salaries has been put down to the aggressive streaming wars between the likes of Netflix, Apple TV+, Hulu, and HBO Max, who are willing to shell out big paydays for A-List stars.
The full list, published Tuesday, features 28 actors including Ted Lasso's Jason Sudeikis, Mare of Easttown's Kate Winslet, and Gillian Anderson for the upcoming series The First Lady.
Jeff Bridges came in second on the list with $1M per episode for The Old Man, which is set to premiere on FX on Hulu in 2022.
Big payday: Chris Pratt has topped TV's highest-paid list with $1.4million PER EPISODE for Amazon's The Terminal List... in a new report published by Variety on Tuesday
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston was third in the list with $750,000 per episode for Your Honor, for the channel SHOWTIME that premiered last December.
However, the report notes that while Pratt, 42, is top of the list, there are rumors that Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. is earning over $2million for Vietnam War thriller The Sympathizer for HBO Max.
Though it is unclear as yet exactly how much Downey Jr., 56, is getting paid or what type of deal the movie star has secured.
Close behind are Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and
