Hour-longs:
| Show | Cable Net | $ per episode | Year |
| The Sopranos | A&E | 2,500,000 | 2007 |
| Hawaii Five-0 | TNT | 2,500,000 | 2011 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | USA | 2,200,000 | 2009 |
| The Mentalist | TNT | 2,200,000 | 2009 |
| Law & Order: CI | USA Network/Bravo | 1,900,000 | 2004 |
| CSI: NY | Spike | 1,900,000 | 2004 |
| CSI | Spike | 1,600,000 | 2001 |
| Castle | TNT | 1,500,000 | 2011 |
| Cold Case | TNT | 1,400,000 | 2005 |
| Without a Trace | TNT | 1,400,000 | 2003 |
| House | USA | 1,400,000 | 2005 |
| Medium | Lifetime | 1,350,000 | 2005 |
| Law & Order: SVU | USA | 1,300,000 | 2001 |
| Person of Interest | WGN America | 1,300,000 | 2013 |
| Elementary | WGN America | 1,300,000 | 2014 |
| Grey's Anatomy | Lifetime | 1,200,000 | 2006 |
| The West Wing | Bravo | 1,200,000 | 2001 |
| CSI: Miami | A&E | 1,000,000 | 2003 |
| Law & Order | TNT | 800,000 | 2002 |
| NCIS | USA | 750,000 | 2006 |
| Criminal Minds | A&E | 650,000 | 2008 |
| Glee | Oxygen | 500,000 | 2010 |
| Desperate Housewives | Lifetime | 500,000 | 2006 |
| Bones | TNT | 450,000 | 2008 |
| Smallville | ABC Family | 400,000 | 2004 |
| Heroes | G4 | 300,000 | 2007 |
| Lost | Sci-Fi/G4 | 200,000 | 2008 |
| Ugly Betty | TV Guide | 200,000 | 2009 |
Half-hours:
| Show | Cable Net | $ per episode | Year |
| 2 Broke Girls | TBS | 1,700,000 | 2012 |
| The Big Bang Theory | TBS | 1,500,000 | 2010 |
| Modern Family | USA | 1,400,000 | 2010 |
| Two and a Half Men | FX | 850,000 | 2006 |
| 30 Rock | Comedy Central | 800,000 | 2009 |
| Mike and Molly | FX | 750,000 | 2012 |
| How I Met Your Mother | Lifetime | 750,000 | 2008 |
| Sex and the City | TBS | 750,000 | 2003 |
| New Girl | TBS/MTV | 700,000 | 2013 |
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Comedy Central | 700,000 | 2009 |
| The Office | TBS | 650,000 | 2007 |
| My Name is Earl | TBS | 600,000 | 2007 |
| Entourage | Spike | 600,000 | 2009 |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | TV Guide/TV Land | 600,000 | 2009 |
| The Cleveland Show | TBS/Adult Swim | 500,000 | 2010 |
| Bob's Burgers | Adult Swim | 500,000 | 2013 |
| Old Christine | Lifetime | 350,000 | 2009 |
| According to Jim | TBS | 300,000 | 2005 |
DISCLAIMER: These are just cable deals and don't (or at least shouldn't) include broadcast syndication money or streaming. They're all estimates, and at times they are even estimates of estimates, as not even all these figures are totally agreed upon. These figures might occasionally include money from a secondary network that isn't listed, like WGN or ION, and I should also note that there are other aspects of the deals (like minimum/maximum episode #s) that vary and that we're generally not privy to in Internet-land. Generally, though, they should be pretty good ballpark figures.
Since I mostly talk primetime first-run ratings around here, I'm not making this post for any reason other than to illuminate just one part of the balance sheet for many shows still around today or in recent history. I don't have access to the information that would allow me to make judgments on how solid these deals were for the cable nets, though the losses taken on many of these pacts (I'm thinking of Without a Trace, Entourage, pretty much all the Lifetime deals, and especially the ridiculous Sopranos deal) have been well documented elsewhere in the media.
Hoping to update this in the future as information for other shows comes out. There are a few shows whose cable bucks I'm quite interested in but couldn't find anything, namely Family Guy and American Dad! on TBS/Adult Swim, Scrubs on Comedy Central, and Supernatural on TNT. So if anybody knows of those or other figures or wants to contest some of the above, have at it.
