For anyone wondering what an £850 million windfall might buy, streaming service Amazon may well have the answer - but only time will tell if the biggest gamble in their 28-year history pays off. With close to a billion spent on visual effects, casting, costumes and location shoots, the eagerly anticipated Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power - a prequel to Peter Jackson's hugely popular film franchise - is set to launch on September 1, making it the most expensive TV show of all time. It will herald a Middle-Earth set more than 2000 years before Frodo Baggins' fabled journey from The Shire, with a new range of characters inhabiting a world at odds with the comparatively civilised settings laid out in author JRR Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit and his subsequent Lord Of The Rings trilogy - The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and Return Of The King.
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