pattern budget

noun

The cost of producing a typical episode of a television series.

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Meanings

nounpattern budget (plural pattern budgets)

plural pattern budgets

  1. broadcastingThe cost of producing a typical episode of a television series.

    The main order of business will be to discuss how to meet the requirements of the script that are beyond the pattern budget, which is the cost of a typical episode. The pattern will dictate what the usual demands are […]

    2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 68
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