The Importance of History in Television

A 30 minute episode of your average reality TV show, haul somewhere between 100 grand to 500 grand to produce. That's a huge amount of money for individuals but in the world of television, it's not very much money at all. The last season of Game of Thrones, despite being enormously divisive, keeping my personal opinions out here, each episode of that last season cost $15 million. Think of how much reality TV you can make with 15 mill. It's a fire sale. I've kind of got something like this going on behind me right now. If you can see this video, I am ridiculously delayed right now in our zoom call, by the way, and it is weirding