Eli5: How do TV shows like Total Wipeout or Euphoria etc make a profit?

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Not necessarily reality just TV shows like Total Wipeout, but TV shows in general.

I saw that Zendaya gets paid 1 mill USD per episode to be in Euphoria, which is INSANE. How do the creators of these shows make a profit? Where exactly is the income coming from?

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Advertising or subscriptions.

If you have a popular show that means advertisers have a big audience that will watch their commercials and hopefully lead to more sales. It’s why super bowl commercials are such a big deal.

Or for a channel like HBO they’re banking on the fact that by providing a lot of high quality content or airing movies you can’t get elsewhere people will pay to watch that.

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