Earlier, reporters emerged suggesting that Carman Lee Yuek-Tung is still owed money by the producers of her latest television series YEUNG MOON NUI JEUNG (lit. YEUNG FAMILY WOMEN SOLDIERS). Apparently, Lee signed a contract that called for her to be paid on a per episode basis. While the original version of the series is twenty-eight episodes, television stations in Taiwan and Singapore have extended it to thirty-six episodes. As a result, Lee feels that she should be paid for the eight extra episodes. Yesterday, Lee called a press conference to state her case. Brandishing her contract, Lee declared: "All I want to do is get what is owed to me according to the contract. I just want my pay for the eight extra episodes. It works out to around HK$400,000. According to my contract, I was supposed to work on a twenty-eight episode series. But now, television stations in Singapore and Taiwan are broadcasting it as a thirty-six episode series. So, I want the money from those eight episodes. They (the producers) tell me that the way television stations cut the show is none of their business. However, if I didn't give them enough material to make it a thirty-six episode series, how could they do it?" Asked to comment on Lee's allegations, a spokesperson for the producers, Choi Ngai-Lung, said: "We are prepared to let a court decide on who is interpreting the contract correctly. We believe that we have more than fulfilled our obligations to Carman Lee. Actually, she only appears in twenty-five episodes of the series but we have paid her for the full twenty-eight (of the original version). That's three more episodes than we were obligated to pay for."
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