A preview for the latest episode of Game of Thrones, season six, episode six.
Even if you win the lotto this week, you still won't have enough money to fund a single episode of Game of Thrones.
It's probably not that surprising that the medieval fantasy comes with a huge price tag and it's definitely not alone.
Whether it's due to a well-paid castor the fact they film in exotic locations, here are some of the TV shows that cost millions to produce each episode:
GAME OF THRONES
Winter is coming, and so's the bill. Photo / Supplied
It's arguably the biggest show on TV at the moment and it also comes with the biggest price tag.
According to Entertainment Weekly, each episode in season six cost a staggering $14.9 million to produce.
Their budget was probably stretched a little when the show staged what Game of Thrones writer/producer Bryan Cogman is describing as "the biggest action sequence yet".
"We've always wanted to get to a place - story-wise and budget-wise and time-wise and resource-wise - where we would be able to do a proper battle, with one army on one side, one army on another side," he said to EW.
The production value wasn't that high, but these guys' pay packets were. Photo / Supplied
With the sitcom's six main stars all getting paid $1.48 million an episode in the tenth and final season, it was never going to be a cheap show to produce.
According to the BBC, NBC agreed to pay Warner Bros Television $14.8 million for each of the 18 episodes in the final season in 2004.
If you adjust that for inflation, each episode would cost US $12.7 million in 2016, which is NZ $18.8 million.
And here's a fun fact, each of the Friends stars reportedly rakes in $29.8 million per year thanks to the sitcom's syndication.
ROME
Rome didn't last long because it simply cost too much to make. Photo / Supplied
The epic historical drama told the story of both illustrious and ordinary Romans and was set in the last days of the Roman Republic.