What's the budget of your favorite tv show?
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It's generally relatively easy to find a film's budget. TV shows are more tricky. Here's a list. If you've got anything to contribute, please do.
Last update: September 30, 2016 - Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who (classic & revival), Doctor Thorne, Downton Abbey, Indian Summers, Star Trek Enterprise, The Night Manager, True Detective, Weeds (& Space Above & Beyond update)
It's generally relatively easy to find a film's budget. TV shows are more tricky. Here's a list. If you've got anything to contribute, please do.
Last update: September 30, 2016 - Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who (classic & revival), Doctor Thorne, Downton Abbey, Indian Summers, Star Trek Enterprise, The Night Manager, True Detective, Weeds (& Space Above & Beyond update)
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- StarsJames Badge DaleJoseph MazzelloJon SedaThe Pacific Theatre of World War II, as seen through the eyes of several young Marines.Estimated at $18,000,000 to $27,000,000 per episode
- StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon LivingstonThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.$12,500,000 per episode
- CreatorsDavid CraneMarta KauffmanStarsJennifer AnistonCourteney CoxLisa KudrowFollows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty year-old friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City.$10,000,000 per episode (Season 10)
- CreatorJohn FuscoStarsLorenzo RichelmyBenedict WongJoan ChenIn a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, "Marco Polo" is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century Mongolia.$9,000,000 per episode
- StarsChristian ClavierIsabella RosselliniGérard DepardieuA masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe. But his life ends with a fall and exile.€10,250,000 per episode (approx. $8,673,000)
- CreatorsBruno HellerWilliam J. MacDonaldJohn MiliusStarsKevin McKiddRay StevensonPolly WalkerThe lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans in the last days of the Roman Republic.Between $8,300,000 and $9,167,000 per episode
- CreatorMichael CrichtonStarsAnthony EdwardsGeorge ClooneyJulianna MarguliesThe doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.$2,000,000 per episode (Season 1-3)
$13,000,000 per episode (Season 4-6)
$8,000,000 per episode (Season 7-9)
AVERAGE: $7,667,000 per episode - CreatorsDavid BenioffD.B. WeissStarsEmilia ClarkePeter DinklageKit HaringtonNine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.$6,000,000 per episode (Season 1)
$7,000,000 per episode (Season 2)
$10,000,000 per episode (Season 6)
AVERAGE: $7,667,000 per episode - CreatorsChris ChibnallMichael HirstStarsJoseph FiennesJamie Campbell BowerTamsin EgertonWhen King Uther dies and Britain faces chaos, Merlin presents an unknown named Arthur as the new king by birthright, as the late king's son, against the ambitious desires of his half-sister, Morgan.$7,000,000 per episode
- CreatorKenneth JohnsonStarsMichelle RyanMiguel FerrerMolly PriceA reimagining of the popular 1970s TV series about a female athlete who is given bionic strength.$6,000,000 per episode (+$7,400,000 pilot)
- CreatorAaron SorkinStarsMartin SheenRob LoweAllison JanneyInside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.$6,000,000 per episode
- StarsBen ChaplinCharlotte RileyNora WaldstättenThe English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death.$5,750,000 per episode
- StarsGérard DepardieuChristian ClavierJohn MalkovichEx-convict Jean Valjean's pursuit of redemption and peace clashes with Javert's rigid enforcement of law. Their conflict impacts lives, including Fantine's daughter Cosette, against the backdrop of 19th-century France.FRF41,250,000 per episode (approx. $5,584,000)
- CreatorsDavid AngellPeter CaseyDavid LeeStarsKelsey GrammerJane LeevesDavid Hyde PierceDr. Frasier Crane moves back to his hometown of Seattle, where he lives with his father and works as a radio psychiatrist.$5,200,000 per episode (Season 11)
- CreatorTerence WinterStarsSteve BuscemiKelly MacdonaldMichael ShannonAn Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.$5,000,000 per episode (+$20,000,000 pilot)
- CreatorDavid MilchStarsTimothy OlyphantIan McShaneMolly ParkerA show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.$5,000,000 per episode
- CreatorSteven S. DeKnightStarsAndy WhitfieldLucy LawlessManu BennettThe life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans, to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.$5,000,000 per episode
- CreatorNeil JordanStarsJeremy IronsFrançois ArnaudHolliday GraingerIn the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.$5,000,000 per episode
- StarsIan McShaneMatthew MacfadyenEddie RedmayneSet against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.$5,000,000 per episode
- CreatorDavid FarrStarsTom HiddlestonOlivia ColmanAlistair PetrieThe night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle.£3,333,000 per episode (approx. $4,801,500)
- CreatorBeau WillimonStarsKevin SpaceyMichel GillRobin WrightA Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.$4,615,000 per episode
- CreatorsNic PizzolattoIssa LópezStarsVince VaughnColin FarrellRachel McAdamsAnthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.Between $4,000,000 and $4,500,000 per episode (Season 1)
- CreatorsKelly MarcelCraig SilversteinStarsJason O'MaraShelley ConnChristine AdamsCenters on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying, who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization.$4,000,000 per episode (+$14,000,000 pilot)
- CreatorsJ.J. AbramsJeffrey LieberDamon LindelofStarsJorge GarciaJosh HollowayYunjin KimThe survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.$4,000,000 per episode (+$14,000,000 pilot)
- CreatorsJ.J. AbramsAlex KurtzmanRoberto OrciStarsAnna TorvJoshua JacksonJohn NobleAn F.B.I. agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.$4,000,000 per episode (+$10,000,000 pilot)
