10 Most Expensive TV Shows Of All Time

Band of Brothers was an incredible and emotional miniseries from Executive Producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks that dramatised the real-life stories of "Easy" Company, a parachute regiment who went behind enemy lines during The Second World War.

The show was based on a book of the same name by historian Stephen E. Ambrose. This, alongside with contemporary interviews with some of the surviving members of "Easy" Company helps to place the series in its historical context. Clips of the interviews play at the start of each episode, with the names of the interviewees left out until the final episode. This adds to the dramatic nature of the story, as the audience had no idea who lived until the finale.

The show had a budget of $125 million, averaging out at $12.5 million per episode. This went towards the grand sets that are seen in the show, as well as the effects needed. Spielberg and Hanks had previously collaborated on Saving Private Ryan, a film which featured an expensive and incredibly gory opening scene, set on the beaches of D-Day.

Band of Brothers ups this level of gore from a 10-minute scene to a 10-hour show in which the violence keeps coming. It is clear where the money in this show has gone when you watch it.