Boardwalk Empire
We are less than a month by from a unexampled class , and also a new ten . But before we all pull out our harmonious 2020 glasses to watch the ball free fall on TV , there is still fourth dimension to reminisce and appraise the ten long time that are being left behind . What good mode to say arrivederci to 2019 than by prove not the most successful , well - reviewed , or classical television system that come up into our lives over the past decade , but by looking at where Divine spend the most money ?
What episodes over the retiring ten years were the most expensive to make ? Did the harebrained amounts of money spent all pay off off ? That ’s for viewers , and future critic to decide . Let ’s take a look !
The Get Down
The 11 ( though originally plan to be 13 ) episode mini - series on Netflix be nearly $ 15,800,000 an episode . Have n’t heard of the show ? It was n’t big , it just got lost in the avalanche of ever - present Netflix original subject . All about music in the South Bronx during the 1970 ’s the high cost tag end came in the main because of behind the television camera talent .
Baz Luhrmann ofMoulin Rougefame created the show and needed to musical assistance of Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow to bring with the young cast . Unfortunately for the talented roll and crowd , the money did not bribe an audience .
The Big Bang Theory
It was cast salary negotiations that sent this half - hour sitcom over the boundary around 2013 . With the main mould of five , Johnny Galecki , Jim Parsons , Kaley Cuoco , Simon Helberg , Kunal Nayyar all making nearly $ 1 million an episode the show is one of the light ( in terms of run time ) but still cost approximately$9 million per episodeto make .
The show also has to give royalties on its theme birdsong to The Barenaked Ladies .
Marco Polo
Marco Polo , the television show on Netflix , could not drum up the same riches the notable adventurer find on his trade route . The diachronic hour - long drama live on only two season , start in 2014 , budget $ 9 million per episode .
Both seasons were flops for the streaming giant , leaving them not only on this tilt but also in an incredible amount of debt once the show as finally canceled .
Sense8
Netflix made the same $ 9 million per episode investment funds in its 2015 science fiction dramatic play series , Sense8 , from the creators ofThe Matrix . Besides the talent , Netflix was also pay for filming on position across the globe . The premise behind the program were masses across the globe who could connect emotionally and mentally .
The show lasted two seasons , popular in part because of its very various mold , and create its own very devoted fan base . Proving itself a much more successful investing than the ominous - fatedMarco Polo , no connection or cyclosis political program seems to have its computer programing down to a perfect scientific discipline .
The Crown
make out in at just over $ 13 million isThe Crown . Which sequence of this three - season Netflix hit be the crown jewels ? Well , all of them really . It is very expensive to cloth such a large mould in the very unstinted period piece to which the monarchy and viewers have become accustomed .
Oddly enough , it ’s this show , centre on real - life royalty , that sits at the bottom of the listing we are making . Shocking what a few real - life-time fix can do to keep the budget from ballooning ( in comparison anyway ) .
Game of Thrones
With its concluding season , HBO seems to have offered the entirety of its budget to creators Dan and Dave to do with as they pleased . While the results did n’t please theGame of Thronesfan base , they did make one of the most expensive show , and instalment of the decade . Coming in at over $ 15 million dollars Season 8 ’s " The Battle of Winterfell " comes in as the most expensive ( and the longest ) of any Game of Thrones sequence ever .
lover complained that not enough of that astronomical budget was spent on lighting , but thanks to some on-line edits some of the spirited details and mythical acting have come into focal point over the months follow the episode ’s debut .
Terra Nova
The 2011 Steven Spielberg produced dystopian dinosaur epic sound fab on composition and in advertising . Survivors of solid ground ’s future tense are sent to its past where the planet has not yet been destroyed . The deception ? Dinosaurs plain still roam .
The cowcatcher ofTerra Novacost about $ 14 million and did n’t set up the program to survive its first season . The archetype was two hour recollective and filmed on emplacement in Australia , but that ’s still quite expensive for a show , even a Spielberg one .
plainly , when it comes to famous movie manager working for goggle box , Martin Scorcese can enquire for even more than Steven Spielberg . Scorcese directed the pilot installment of HBO’sBoardwalk Empirein 2010 .
That installment go under HBO back over $ 18 million . The boardwalk of the title cost a cool $ 5 million all on its own . Critical acclamation and a five - season running game just might have quenched HBO with their very bombastic investiture .
Westworld
HBO enters our list for the third time withWestworld . It ’s obvious the mesh is unforced to vest in its prop and they have been comparatively successful thus far . The 90 min pilot forWestworldcost executives about $ 25 million all in all .
The serial is about to premier its third time of year and has received huge amounts of press for its particular effects and sci - fi storytelling . Once again HBO ’s money has bear off in viewership and word of mouth . devotee will have to await for the unexampled decennium to see where the taradiddle is head .
Vinyl
Here at the top of the list is the cause not even HBO can get cocky about the money it spend on any of the shows they make up one’s mind to put on the air . calculate once again at Martin Scorcese and his winner make the world ofBoardwalk Empire , the party also called in Mick Jagger to work on on this serial about euphony and the business behind it during the seventies .
The two - hour pilot cost HBO over $ 30 million , and the series never made it past its first time of year , even with a cast that admit Bobby Cannavale , Olivia astray , and Ray Romano .
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