After Pete, a medical drama in "Real Time" in a 15-hour shift at a fictional hospital in Pittsburgh (Although with recording locations that include the exterior of a Real Hospital in Pittsburgh), premiered at Max in January 2025, the series became an immediate hit ... And you might be surprised that, compared to other HBO Juggernauts, it's Relative Cheap for production.

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In order to the success of the series from IndiewireExecutive producer and director Johnon Wells - who came up with the idea of ​​a series with his fellow veterans Air and Friends. Scott Gemil (serving as a shower) and Noah Will (who starred as Dr. Michael Robbie Robbavich) - revealed that the series costs about $ 4 or $ 5 million per episode. For context, the first season of "The Last of Us" worked with a total budget of about $ 100 million, which came out at about $ 10 million per episode. (Also, just to be clarified - though Wales, Gemil and Will all worked together on Air, This show is, for legal reasons, Not spin-off or restart.)

Wales explained to the exit that the creatives of the series can keep the costs quite low thanks to the primary practical hospital set of the show. "We were not trying to create a huge amount of CGI or whatever," Wales said. "We had to make a certain amount of it for some of the work of the wounds. We didn't shoot in open spaces surrounded by 300 yards of blue -screen."

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It is also important to note here that most HBO and Max Shows run for about 10 episodes, although this is not put in stone; Season 2 of "The Last of Us" spread in only seven episodes, while the third season of the "White Lotos" lasted eight chapters. Plus, as Wales pointed out, most doctors work 12-hour shifts. However, for the purpose of telling stories and calming down Max's request, the creators of the show threw the episode of season 1 at 15, and that was However economical for Max.

"But for doctors and nurses, there is a huge time that is needed to surrender all your patients to the next shift that comes," Wales have shone. "But the 15 ended because Max told us," Can you do 15 hours? "And we said," Surely ". That's big. "Separation," shows so expensive to make, you won't do 15 of them.

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