6. The Big Bang Theory on CBS ($350,000 per 30 seconds)
The Big Bang Theory has become one of the best sitcoms in the history of television. When it was first aired in 2007, it came with a fresh idea of comedy TV among the swarming cop shows. Since then, the casts of The Big Bang Theory have become one of the rich and famous. In fact, some of them are on our list of highest paid TV actors.
The plot of this TV series is a group of scientists with their nerdy lifestyle meeting a girl with a blond girl stereotype who was clueless about the world of science. The collision of the two different worlds goes along with the analogy of the big bang theory itself.
The show has been running for nine consecutive years. When it was first aired in 2007, more than 8 million viewers tuned into CBS every week for 30 minutes. Guess how many people are currently watching the show today? Almost 20 million in United States only.
With such amazing progress after all these years, it should come as no surprise that CBS charges $350,000 per 30-second commercial during the program. Well, the producers have to pay around $4 million for the cast and crew per one episode only!
