'Modern Family' impasse over salaries

They cancelled this morning's table read because a number of cast members indicated that they weren't going to show up. Turns out that they want raises and the show's producer, 20th Century Fox TV, hasn't been cooperating. The stars appear to be negotiating as a group, the same tactic used by the "Friends" cast in 1996. Disrupting a production schedule, while unusual, sometimes happens on a hit show like "Modern Family."From Deadline's Nellie Andreeva:

I hear that Modern Family's Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Julie Bowen and Sofia Vergara most recently made more that $60,000 an episode, while Ed O'Neill, who started much higher from the get-go and also has back-end participation, was around $100,000. Word is the cast have been looking for Big Bang-size paychecks (the three stars of the CBS/Warner Bros. TV show, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco, landed $200,000 an episode for Season 5 and built-in big increases for the following seasons.) At one point it looked like the two sides could settle in the $150,000-an-episode range, but that has not happened, and there is an impasse in trying to close the money gap -- which sources say is not that big.