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India.com
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
World's most expensive TV show, each episode costs Rs 856 crore, not The Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, or Stranger Things, total cost is Rs…, it is…
Can you guess which is the most expensive show in the world, and how much money would have been spent to make it? If you are thinking Rs 200-400 crore, then stop right there. Because the most expensive show in the world is being made more expensive than Rs 34,240 crores. It has broken the record of all the shows and movies to date. So let us tell you how much money the most expensive show in the world will take to be made and what its budget is. The world's most expensive TV show is… The most expensive show to date was made in 440 million dollars, and this was Star Wars Episode VII. But now another show is coming, which will break this record in terms of budget. The world's most expensive TV show will be made with a staggering 4 billion dollars (approx Rs 34,240 crore). Such a huge amount was spent on a single episode, the TV show which we are referring to is none other than 'Harry Potter Reboot' , which is set to become the world's most expensive show. The makers have spent crores of rupees on making their sets. According to the Express report, one episode of 'Harry Potter Reboot' will cost around 100 million dollars (approx Rs 856 crore). There are reports that the show is likely to have six episodes. The entire series will be made in Rs… Media reports claim that the total production budget of 'Harry Potter Reboot' is set to be 4.2 billion dollars (approx Rs 34,240 crores). Till now, the most expensive TV show is The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The total budget of its two seasons was a little over 1 billion dollars. The new season of 'Harry Potter' has surpassed it. Crores were spent on this A large part of the budget of the new Harry Potter series is being spent on shooting and sets. The Sun's report states that 1.3 billion dollars has been spent on the set itself. The makers have built the entire city, for which a huge amount of money had to be spent. This series, based on JK Rowling's novel about Harry Potter, has gained immense popularity worldwide. It is being said that the new series will be even more in-depth.
Hindustan Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
World's most expensive TV show costs $100M an episode, sets alone cost $1.3 billion; not Game of Thrones, The Last of Us
The most expensive film that has ever been released cost just over $440 million to make. That was Star Wars Episode VII, a film that included hours of CGI and boasted some big names. But as things stand currently, a TV series in production dwarfs the film's scale. The world's most expensive TV series will cost over $4 billion to make. (Also read: Netflix's most expensive film cost more than Avatar, The Avengers; was rejected by studios, ended up a $320 million flop) The reboot of the Harry Potter series is being touted as the most expensive TV show ever made. According to a report in Express, the show will have a production budget of £75 million per episode (over $100 million). With seven seasons of six episodes planned, the series' total production budget currently stands at an estimated £3.15 billion (over $4.2 billion). The most expensive series currently made is The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which had a per-episode production budget of $62 million and a total cost of just over $1 billion for two seasons. The Harry Potter series is expected to surpass that by a huge margin. A huge chunk of the cost of the new Harry Potter series is in a city that is being built for the shoot. The mini city, which the media has dubbed Potterville, has cost the Warner Bros Studios around £1 billion ($1.3 billion), according to a report in The Sun. The city will include all the major locations in the series, including Hogwarts, King's Cross Station, and even Privet Drive. Based on novels by JK Rowling, the upcoming series is described as a "more in-depth" adaptation of Rowling's books than the eight-part film franchise. John Lithgow has been cast as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Other actors in the series are Janet McTeer, who will feature as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost in the role of Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.
