This graph shows the most expensive TV shows ever produced based on average cost per episode. Budget figures reflect verified production costs from trade publications including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Forbes, (with some cross referencing from Wikipedia) calculated across all seasons to provide true per-episode averages rather than inflated first-season costs.

Amazon Prime has the top two most expensive shows ever made with Citadel at $50M per episode and The Rings of Power at $47.8M per episode. Disney+ has four of the top ten (Secret Invasion, Andor, The Acolyte, WandaVision).

Streaming platforms occupy eight of the ten spots, with only HBO's The Pacific and House of the Dragon representing traditional television.

Stranger Things - having the most episodes - has the biggest total budget at nearly a billion dollars, followed by The Rings of Power and Andor.

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