WORKING NOTES

When producers are expected to do everything, creative work risks becoming a factory. A look at why the producer’s real value lies in orchestration, not execution.

What Prime Video’s Rings of Power reveals about scale, spectacle, and modern television A quick Google search will tell you that Prime Video spared no expense in producing its television adaptation set in the Lord of the Rings universe. According to estimates by Vanity Fair, the first season alone reportedly cost around $462 million , with the total budget for the series believed to exceed $1 billion . So what does that level of investment buy in modern television? Based on