Why do ~2 hour movies take 2-3 years to make, while an 6+ hour TV season can be made in 1 year?
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Movies have a lot of money because they’re expected to *make* a lot of money. All of that extra time is spent going to different places, making better effects, shooting scenes over and over again, and sometimes even rewriting scripts and redoing parts of the film. Often the film is screened to test audiences and sometimes this can cause the studio to change parts of the film.
TV has a smaller budget and a much tighter deadline. If they don’t have shows ready to show on time the network has to find something else to do with the time slot and will NOT be happy about it. So they can’t redo things to a certain extent, and they just have to run with what they have.
You could run a movie like a TV show, but it might not be as satisfying. And some TV shows take their time these days too, so the line is blurred. But compare the quality of a show like *Stranger Things*, which takes a long time and a lot of money to film, to the quality of *Days of Our Lives*, which releases 5 episodes per week and has for a decade.
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