After “The Pitt”, a medical drama which takes place in “real time” throughout a quarter of 3 pm in a fictitious hospital in Pittsburgh (although with filming places that include the outside of a real Pittsburgh hospital), presented on Max in January 2025, the series became an immediate success … And you might be surprised that, compared to other HBO jerseys, it is relatively inexpensive to produce.

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In a functionality on the success of the series IndiewireExecutive producer and director John Wells – who had the idea of ​​the series with his veterans and friends colleagues “R. Scott Gemmill (who serves as a showrunner) and Noah Wyle (who plays Dr. Michael” Robby “Robinavitch) – revealed that the series costs around 4 or 5 million dollars per episode. For the context, the first season of” The Last of Us ” Worked with a total budget of around $ 100 million, which has reached around $ 10 million per episode. This show is, for legal reasons, Not a spin-off or a restart.)

Wells explained to the point of sale that the creatives of the series were able to maintain the costs fairly low thanks to the main practical hospital set of the show. “We are not trying to create a huge amount of CGI or anything,” noted Wells. “We had to make a certain quantity for part of the work of the injury. We do not shoot in open spaces surrounded by 300 meters of blue screen.”

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It is also important to note here most The HBO and Max shows take place on around 10 episodes, although it is not in stone; Season 2 of “The Last of Us” is not spread over seven episodes, while the third season of “The White Lotus” took place for eight chapters. In addition, as Wells pointed out, most doctors work a quarter of 12 hours. However, both for narration purposes and to appease a request from max, the creators of the show fell the episode of season 1 to 15, and it was always Corpare for max.

“But for doctors and nurses, there is a lot of time it is necessary to put all your patients in the next quarter of work that arrives,” said Wells. “But the 15 ended up being because Max said to us,” Can you do 15 hours? “And we said:” Of course “. It’s big, but a lot of shows that were on HBO, like” the sopranos “, were episodes.” Welcome “, watch so dear to do, you are not going to make them 15.

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