TV Series Budgets Hit the Breaking Point as Costs Skyrocket in Peak TV Era

Spending $20m per TV episode would have been unthinkable a few years ago, but no longer.

Fantastic cover!

Cost per episode by show:
1) Game of Thrones (HBO) — $15m
2) The Crown (Netflix) — $10m
3) Jack Ryan (Amazon) — $8m
4) American Gods (Starz) — $8m
5) Stranger Things (Netflix) — $6m
6) American Crime Story (FX) — $6m
7) The Tick (Amazon) — $5m
8) Will (TNT) — $5m
9) Carpool Karaoke (Apple) — $2m

Quote from Michael Pachter — Research Analyst @ Wedbush Securities“It’s an arms race, and it’s going to be that way until somebody realizes they’re just beating their head against the wall and not getting anywhere,”

Reply

or to participate.