World's most expensive TV show has $1 billion budget; each episode costs more than Brahmastra, Singham Again, Jawan
Hindustan TimesTelevision was long considered a poor cousin of cinema. World's most expensive TV show The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age of Tolkien's Middle-Earth {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is history's most expensive TV show. The show's first season premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2022, and Deadline reported that it cost Amazon Studios a staggering $1 billion. How Rings of Power towers above big films {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} The most expensive film ever made is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which had a production budget of $447 million, less than that of the Rings of Power. The most expensive Indian films - Kalki 2898 AD, RRR, and Adipurush - have production budgets between $70-75 million, just 1/15th of the Rings of Power's season 1 landing cost.
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