Because these services aren't really relying on direct episode sales to the viewer, they don't have to worry about making back their production costs, they can just charge you whatever they think you'll be willing to pay. In the case of programming on paid services like Netflix or HBO, it's from the subscription fees of their enormous subscriber bases. In the case of Doctor Who, that's the BBC license fee as well as ad revenue from overseas sales. Television programs, on the other hand, are funded primarily through means other than direct sales to customers. And since they sell to a fairly small listener base, they need to make more money from each sale, so they can make back the production costs (including the fees paid to the performers, some of whom are very big stars like Alex Kingston) and turn a profit. I can buy an entire season of the television series - with all its expensive visual effects, location shoots, sets, costumes, makeup, and everything else that goes into making a television program - for $1.99 (USD) per episode, which works out to around $26 for an entire season of thirteen episodes (give or take design ending on how the Christmas special is priced).īy contrast, the recent Big Finish series "The Diary of River Song" consists of four hour-long audio episodes, and costs $29.99.īig Finish is an independently run company whose sole source of revenue is CD and download sales.
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