Television program costs per episode
Lightbulb (Dilanchian IP blog): The money men at PBL Media and its private equity owner, CVC Asia Pacific, are big fans of Ramsay. Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen cost Nine an estimated A$30,000 and A$15,000 an episode, compared with about A$1 million for each episode of Nine's hit local drama Underbelly and about A$300,00 an episode for its new reality show Domestic Blitz.
TV chief tells of recipe for success , Rear Window column, The Australian Financial Review, 30 May 2008, p. 48.
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PBL Media -
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DVRs and video on demand in Australia (ip/dvrs-and-video-on-demand-in-australia.html)
Channel Nine -
Think digital, think future proofing (ip/think-digital-think-future-proofing.html)
Television formats law -
Copyright traps for television formats (ip/copyright-traps-for-television-formats.html)