Dreamworks CEO offered $75million for three extra episodes of Breaking Bad

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If Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had had his way, Breaking Bad wouldn’t quite be finished yet and everyone involved in the show would have come away with a few extra quid while they were at it.


In a conference for TV and entertainment content market MIPCOM in Cannes yesterday, Katzenberg revealed that he had offered the show’s creators $25million per episode to make three episodes after the finale and he had a rather novel idea about how he was going to make the money back.
As he explains in the video above, Katzenberg wanted the episodes delivered in six-minute segments that would then be made available to consumers for a small fee on a daily basis, with the entire three episodes costing approximately $15 after consumers had paid 50 cents per day for 30 days.


It all sounds way too complicated for us, but Katzenberg, it seems, was deadly serious, telling The Guardian: “My idea was literally that you’d pay 50 cents a day for 30 days, so it would be $15, and I actually think there are 10m people around the world that would have done that.





I'd pay.


Having obviously put a lot of thought and effort into allowing the show to draw to a conclusion when it did, Vince Gilligan and company turned Katzenberg’s proposal down, but it does go to show that the Dreamworks chief sees a future in charging consumers for bite-sized content, which we’re not too sure we’d be so keen on.