Two years ago, Bob Iger pointed to the rafters and said, the future of our business is on streaming and Disney+. By then, everyone had a streaming service or one in the works, and it ushered in the age of #TooMuchContent. However, as we know, after the Wall Street Netflix crash of April 2022, which impacted the entire industry as the stock market totally reevaluated the worth of all streaming services, things are changing.

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The amount of television premiering each month is overwhelming. This is mainly a good thing as it offers up series for just about every type of fan, as evident by September’s release schedule. “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” chases the buzz away from “House of the Dragon” as the next big fantasy series sequel, while the comedy favorite from earlier this year, “Abbott Elementary,” returns all ready for its second season.

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The 2022 television year has already produced acclaimed new series like “Severance” and “The Staircase,” alongside the return of critical darlings like “Better Call Saul” and “Barry.” With four months left in the calendar year, what do the streaming giants and cable networks have yet to debut? We collected the 40 most exciting shows that either have release dates scheduled between now and New Year’s Eve or could theoretically drop into the holiday season instead of waiting for 2023.

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When it was announced that Amazon was spending nearly $250 million to land the rights to “The Lord of the Rings,” the average person was taken aback by the sheer cost to gain the rights to tell the story. Then it was announced that the first season of the series, only eight episodes, would cost almost $500 million to produce. This is a huge amount of money, even in an era when streamers are spending absurd money to become top dog.

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There are few series that have been cloaked in as much secrecy as “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Amazon Prime Video acquired the rights in 2017 for a massive $250 million and in the years since all of Hollywood (and “LOTR” fandom) have been curious about the creative direction for the prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal masterwork. Those details will slowly come to light once the program finally has its moment in the sun on Sept.

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Kiwi director Peter Jackson helped revolutionize modern studio blockbusters with his original “Lord of The Rings” trilogy, using practical effects in conjunction with newly developed CGI effects from his companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. These companies would later help bring James Cameron’s “Avatar” to life. While there were mixed reactions to “The Hobbit” critically, the three films in the trilogy almost made $1 billion each.

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Amazon has decided to pummel into submission with teaser after teaser of their new “Lord Of The Rings” series and still has not yet revealed a full official trailer (this one’s 2 minutes and 31 seconds, what’s the difference!), and hell we may be posting these all summer long until the series arrives in September.  Subtitled ‘The Rings of Power,’ this new series is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D.

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The premiere of Amazon Studios‘s epic, and epically expensive, high fantasy show “The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power” is just two months away. So, naturally, it’s time to start the hype train. And Amazon did just that today, as they dropped a new sneak peek for the show. The one-minute teaser barely gives anything away, but it hints at some otherworldly intrusion upon Middle-earth as an asteroid or meteor plummets through the sky.

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Last week, we learned that Netflix was spending $30 million per episode on the fourth season of “Stranger Things,” which is double the costs of the final season of HBO‘s “Game of Thrones” at $15 million per and a huge jump from the $6 million price tag on the first season episodes of “Stranger Things.” That’s not the only high-priced streaming series on the way.

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When it was announced that Amazon was developing a live-action TV series based on “The Lord of the Rings,” fans were elated. But there were a ton of questions. Is this a continuation or expansion of the already-existing world created by Peter Jackson? Will the series use various other Tolkien Middle-earth writings, such as “The Silmarillion,” for inspiration when crafting new stories? Well, as the series approaches its debut later this year, we’re starting to get answers.

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Two decades ago, Peter Jackson‘s “The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy ushered in a new age of big-budget filmmaking. On a $286 million budget, Jackon’s films brought in nearly $3 billion in the worldwide box office and won 17 Academy Awards. Jackson’s later “The Hobbit” trilogy failed to measure up to those films, but all six left a lasting influence on 21st-century cinema.

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So, how does one follow up two Tolkien-based projects of such colossal scale and technical wizardry?

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Rights to the “The Lord Of The Rings” properties are not easy to suss out. Film rights have lapsed from Warner Bros. apparently, video game rights are up for sale, but the TV rights to tell Tolkien-approved “Lord Of The Rings” lies with Amazon Prime. And in true, big Jeff Bezos fashion, the company has pulled out all stops to try and create what might be the biggest and most expensive show on television: Amazon wants their own “Game of Thrones” essentially, and ‘LOTR’ might just be the way to achieve that goal.

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For a series that has been in the works for years and has been under intense fan scrutiny since the initial announcement, we really don’t know a whole lot about the upcoming ‘Lord of the Rings’ Amazon show. Sure, we know it’s a prequel. And we know it’s arriving in September. But not much else. Well, at least now we know the title.

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According to Amazon, the full title for the fantasy series is “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” No, that’s not a great title at all.

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While it was thought, very early on, that Peter Jackson could potentially be involved in Amazon’s “Lord Of The Rings” series—maybe as a consultant— eventually, he ended up having no participation in the series. A new take on J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic Middle-Earth saga, which takes place during The Second Age (Jackson’s trilogy was set during The Third Age), Amazon’s new series could have theoretically tapped actors like Hugo Weaving (whose characters were alive in this Second Age), but that never happened, leaving many to assume Amazon was severing all ties with what Jackson brought to ‘LOTR.’ But a new report from Deadline reveals a key creative figure in the Jackson trilogy is actually returning.

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Is everyone ready to venture back to Middle-earth? Well, Amazon sure hopes so. But don’t worry, you don’t have to be excited just yet, as the Prime Video release of the “Lord of the Rings” TV series is still more than a year away.

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According to the official Twitter account for Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings,” the series has an official release date of September 2, 2022.

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