User blog comment:JD Rod/season 23 in trouble/@comment-3482067-20111008015942/@comment-961279-20111008060630

Looks like the renewal for seasons 24 and 25 happened after the negotiations ended. From what I can tell, the actors withdrew the request for percentage of the profits and the studios changed the pay cut from 45% to about 30%. Each actor still gets several million dollars a year for the season, but they had to give up the piece they wanted of the billions in profits Fox makes on the show.

Here's Harry Shearer's statement about what they were looking for, before everything got settled.