The time has come when TV series can easily compete with movies in terms of budgets.
Once upon a time, we treated TV series as something by default more modest than a big movie. The series is a funny sitcom, a chamber detective story, or at most a small adventure.
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But now the time has come when TV series are also huge fantasy sagas with dragons or full-fledged space blockbusters, and money needed for such a scale.
We have collected for you the 13 most expensive TV series in the world. This selection will surprise you.
Yes, yes, it turns out that “Game of Thrones” is not so expensive, if, of course, you compare it with the giants from this list, and not with “The Big Bang Theory”.
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In our selection, it took only fifth place, although, of course, for its time, the film adaptation of George Martin’s saga was a truly revolutionary event. However, the first season relatively inexpensive compared the last ones: little more expensive “Rome” (which is also in our selection).
But in 2022, a series was released that defeated everyone: “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The first season has an absolutely astronomical budget of $715 million. Which is twice the amount that Amazon paid for the rights to the legendary Tolkien franchise.
The most annoying thing is that the series turned out to be quite passable. At least, that’s what fans of both the books and the already cult trilogy by Peter Jackson say.
Even the large-scale visuals and the abundance of magical locations did not protect the series from criticism: fans did not like Galadriel.
The mystery with Sauron is not so intriguing, in general. Fans believe that such huge money could have spent more talentedly. What do you think about this?
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