Top 14 most expensive TV Series ever made – See which is number 1! (With Pictures)

2. Friends – $10 million

Unlike the other television shows in this list, the high per episode cost wasn’t due to expensive special effects or set and costume designs. Friends mainly took place in a coffee shop and two apartments – so what exactly made this popular show cost $10 million per episode to produce? Thanks to its popularity from 1994-2004, the six stars of the show Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and Courtney Cox, rallied together for fair pay and were able to demand salaries of $1 million per episode in the final few seasons of the show. On top of that, Friends hosted a number of A-list guest stars like Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Bruce Willis, among others.