Comment on What's an example of a TV show that came out at before its time, or just at a bad time?

ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rome ran for three seasons and was successful, but extremely expensive to produce. It was a joint production from BBC and HBO. And then there was a huge fire at that burned a bunch of the sets down between seasons. They were lucky to get that last season put together.

  I do wonder if modern tech would have made it more easily producible. I mean, we did get Game of Thrones which was hugely expensive and expansive.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there was a huge fire at that burned a bunch of the sets down

    Like Nero did? I bet there were some interesting headlines about it.

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    • Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IIRC It was Doctor Who using the set that started the fire.

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      • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The episode in Vesuvius, huh?

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