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>The show, meanwhile, costs the network about $2 million an episode, paid to producer Castle Rock in license fees. That comes to nearly $50 million a season. The difference is an astounding $150 million profit.

>With the salary raises, producing Seinfeld will now cost $1.35 million more a week, or roughly $30 million more a season.

Meanwhile on HBO....

>The pilot reportedly cost HBO $5–10 million,[48] and the first season's budget was estimated at $50–60 million.[49] In the second season, the show received a 15-percent budget increase for the climactic battle in "Blackwater" (which had an $8 million budget).[50][51] Between 2012 and 2015, the average budget per episode increased from $6 million[52] to "at least" $8 million.[53] The sixth-season budget was over $10 million per episode, for a season total of over $100 million and a series record

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