. >> it is a battle between the white shadow, actor ken howard, and the home improvement mom, kim richardson. he says he delivered tangible results. over $800 million in contract gains. gabrielle is his executive vice president. >> all of us, the focus is how do we attack the future? we see this landscape coming upon us and we're not prepared. so he has done an incredible job about really dealing with where we are now in the industry and how it is changing. >> richardson says he'll take higher payment for actors for lower budget for digital shows. threatening mainstay of actors' paychecks called residuals. hollywood writers have seen it exceed from the tv network. there's no measure for how it is split but the digital slice of the future. >> the question for actors is, even as the money grows, are the moneys being distributed among so many more people and more jobs that for each given job, an actor might not be seeing as much. >> he said beside the scale it does not have as much power as it should. saying they'll play hard ball, particularly for digital pay. they said the union has left a lo