The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?!

The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.

With $23 million, we could make 1.3 SEASONS of B5. And have a bit
of money left over for a wrap party.

Amazing....

jm(who keeps thinking of what he could do with that)s

By rounding it to 1.3 seasons, the number is still inexact; certainly
we make the show for less than $1 million per episode.

jms

Virtually ALL dramatic series cost at or above the $1 million mark.
A show as simple and cost effective as "Murder, She Wrote," without any
CGI or models or big efx, with recurring cast and sets and not a lot of
location shooting, cost around $1.2 million per episode.

jms

Re: a lot of sets costing $23 million....we have 19 standing sets
and 55 or so swing sets, on only our series budget and the pilot ($3.3
million) movie.

jms

Actually, my point was that we have *more* sets than just about any
other SF series I can think of, including DS9.

jms