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

7. Boardwalk Empire – $5 million

The hit show Boardwalk Empire is no exception to HBO’s typical massive production budgets. Each episode costs a staggering $5 million and the Boardwalk Empire pilot cost $18 million. The lavish production details eat up the largest part of the budget as USA Today reported, that the show’s boardwalk set was built in a Brooklyn parking lot and cost $2 million to create. The show chronicles the life of Nucky Thompson during the Prohibition era, a bootlegger who is part politician, part gangster, and ruler of Atlantic City. The show’s fifth and final season aired last year.