Yahoo News Amazon's most expensive TV show ISN'T The Grand Tour
When Amazon signed up former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, there were plenty of reports about how their new project, The Grand Tour, was going to be the most expensive TV show... in the world.
It turns out that not only is that not the case, it isn't even the most expensive show that Amazon has produced.
Reuters has obtained documents that apparently reveal the production and marketing costs of each Amazon Original, with The Grand Tour season one allegedly costing $78 million.
This would make the motoring show the fifth most expensive on the platform, behind Good Girls Revolt ($81 million), Goliath ($82 million), Sneaky Pete ($93 million) and The Man in the High Castle season two (a whopping $107 million).
That's not all, these documents also apparently contain what is known as a 'cost per first stream', which in short is the cost of production and marketing divided by the number of people who have signed up to Prime and watch that particular show before any other (the thinking being 'if you watch show x first, you probably signed up for that show').
With this in mind, The Grand Tour actually turns out to be Amazon's best show at getting new subscribers to its Prime services, with a 'cost per first stream' of $49 compared to The Man in the High Castle's $63.
Obviously Amazon is going to be shelling out the big bucks for its TV adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, but will enough people sign up to Prime specifically to watch it?
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