Good Gawd Bob.... that's the budget of a weekly series produced up here....
ever heard of "Trailer Park Boys"???

beyond Salaries for big stars, TV Sitcoms are not that expensive to shoot.
Shows like ER clock in under a million, before you pay the talent-rape
contracts!
Just imagine that the original Star Trek Series cost 140K per episode complete!
Twilight Zone episodes were less than half of that!
Far better TV for far less money.

RB