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I'd like to see this statement sourced... And studios, despite some hemming and hawing, would ultimately rather make a lucrative — reportedly up to $100,000 pe
by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'd like to see this statement sourced...
And studios, despite some hemming and hawing, would ultimately rather make a lucrative — reportedly up to $100,000 per mid-season episode — deal with Netflix than rely on middling ad revenue on Hulu.
$100,000 isn't that much. Put it this way. The show Two and a Half Men pays its three stars a combined $3.2 million per episode. Another example is Big Bang Theory which just made a deal for 3 more seasons in which the network will pay $4 million per episode (and is probably making way more)
CABLE pays around $2 million per episode to syndicate the very shows Netflix is offering $100,000 for (http://tinyurl.com/48c5zo9 http://tinyurl.com/48c5zo9)
So $100,000 an episode is more a joke than a real offer that Hollywood is seriously considering.
- isleyaardvark 16y agoThis article (previously featured on HN) mentioned that Netflix pays much less than cable: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-execs-privately-netflix-71957 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-execs-privat.... I think the point of that statement is that Hulu pays much less than $100,000 per episode.