I'd like a new live action show

Nelson · 05-11-2010, 01:36 PM

Here we are talking about the cost of live action vs animation shows, but I though the topic needed some numbers to back up that argument so I did a little search.

The average cost of a 1 hour drama show is in the $2-5 million range (source.)
It looks that each episode of ER in 2001 (outdated, I know) cost $13 million to make (source.)

For animated series, it seems that the average cost is $200,000 per episode (source.)
Daria cost $500,000 an episode to make back in 97. Family Guy cost around $750,000 per episode (source.)

So it seems that an animated show is indeed cheaper to produce than a live acion one.
Of course I guess live action could get cheaper than the examples cited before, like in the case of a Power Rangers tyle show, but personally I wouldn't want a show like that. We already went that route before (yes, sdp, they were not exactly the same, but probably had a similar budget), and if a new TMNT series was to be made I would like it to be a quality 1 hour action-drama series.

05-11-2010, 01:36 PM	#9
Nelson Stone Warrior Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 673	Here we are talking about the cost of live action vs animation shows, but I though the topic needed some numbers to back up that argument so I did a little search. The average cost of a 1 hour drama show is in the $2-5 million range (source.) It looks that each episode of ER in 2001 (outdated, I know) cost $13 million to make (source.) For animated series, it seems that the average cost is $200,000 per episode (source.) Daria cost $500,000 an episode to make back in 97. Family Guy cost around $750,000 per episode (source.) So it seems that an animated show is indeed cheaper to produce than a live acion one. Of course I guess live action could get cheaper than the examples cited before, like in the case of a Power Rangers tyle show, but personally I wouldn't want a show like that. We already went that route before (yes, sdp, they were not exactly the same, but probably had a similar budget), and if a new TMNT series was to be made I would like it to be a quality 1 hour action-drama series.