5. Lost: $4 million per episode
This was probably the most popular TV series at its time. I know I’ve heard a lot of people talking about it.
In 121 episodes of its six seasons, the series was so popular that even inspired a new series of similar thematic series including Flashforward and The Event.
It was that popular than in the first season alone, Lost got an average of 15.69 million viewers per episode.
It was even ranked among the top 10 Best TV series of all time. But making an episode with all the 70 original survivors transported to Hawaii, where the shoot was done, chewed a big part of the show’s budget.
