Okay, I've been looking for this information and I am no closer to finding it.

[conuly]

What IS the cost of adding audio description to a movie or TV show (that is, of hiring somebody to do the audio description), and what other costs might there be to Netflix adding it to its programs? Because there are the predictable people talking about the financial burden, but I can't very well say it's not that burdensome if I don't have a good idea of the total costs. Every reference I can find points to the cost on movie theaters, but that's not relevant to the question at all.

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[conuly]

Given that one half hour of reality tv is budgeted between $100k and $500k, and an hour on a drama is a million or more, I don't think that the $8000 is so burdensome.

Source: http://www.eonline.com/news/70141/which-costs-more-reality-tv-or-scripted-series

Daredevil had $3.3 million per episode.

Source: http://screenrant.com/marvel-netflix-daredevil-jessica-jones-casting/ (in the comments)

[andrewducker]

Sorry, I didn't mean "That seems too expensive for them to do." - I meant "That seems more expensive than I'd have expected."

[conuly]

Ah.