May 1, 2008
“ McElhenney, Howerton and Day initially shot a pilot of [Always Sunny in Philadelphia] for $200 dollars on an AG-DVX100 and edited it on a home computer. (They claim that most of the $200 in expenditures went to pay for pizza and the cost of gasoline to drive to location shoots.) FX picked up the show and re-shot the pilot, again with the DVX100 (for a price, says FX, significantly higher than that of the original $200).
I love hearing stuff like this. Especially since “Always Sunny” is one of my favorite shows on TV.