It can be a lot if you’re paying for them on top of all other options. But the serial show market has fragmented into current-run, immediate rerun on Comcast On-Demand and the like, selective rerun on the channel’s website, eventual DVD/streaming from Netflix… and that middle ground of current but not in available reruns of paying for them on Amazon or Vudu.
We dropped cable at around $75 a month and now pay $15 fixed (Netflix plus Vudu Plus) and maybe $15-20 a month in TV episodes and movies from Vudu. Only part of the latter is actually new cost, so our net bill for video dropped around $60 a month, and with a Roku, we didn’t lose much in the way of current channels.
True for many shows. What I didn’t add to my above comment is that the revenue stream from Vudu/Amazon appears to have driven large numbers of reruns off of free and even bundled (Netflix) services. It’s jest like free money, I guess…