XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   Elvis Gump wrote:   
   >   
   > As to "Enterprise" I've never heard what the per-episode cost of it is. I   
   > remember there was a big deal made of the $1 million per episode that TNG   
   > supposedly cost. Not all the episodes are obviously the same and they are   
   > probably always trading budget from episode to episode to cover production   
   > overages, such as maybe "Carpenter Street" having less FX than "Twilight",   
   > but has there ever been talk about what the average episode costs?   
   >   
   > Even if it's up to $2 million per for Enterprise, that's 26 hours for $52   
   > million which is still cheaper than most one-off feature films.   
      
   But you also need to know what their ad revenues are.   
   Can they charge two thousand bucks a *second* for ads   
   during Enterprise? That's what it would take to cover   
   a $2 million production budget with 16 minutes of ads.   
      
   You can offset some of that through merchandising of   
   course, but how many people are running out to buy   
   Enterprise novels, T-shirts, mugs, etc? How many people   
   here will but the DVDs when they come out?   
      
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