WHEN DID IT LAUNCH?

THE first three episodes

streamed on

November 19, with

Amazon one now dropping

Prime Video every on

week.

The first series ends producer on Christmas Eve.

Marigo Kehoe said Executive greatest amount the last of part will involve the

visual effects.

But she admitted filming

the final scenes had not gone quite

to plan. She says: “We had a Covid shutdown

twice during the last block

of filming. We’d planned to shoot

Canary in the

Islands but because the pandemic of

we couldn’t. So instead we shot

in a quarry in Prague,

and the visual effects team

had to make it look like

The Canaries – the biggest challenge. That episode was definitely the most exciting though.”

finally met HAS fantasy epic Game of Thrones

certainly its match? Amazon boss Jeff Bezos thinks so with his company’s new series.

Lord The Wheel of Time has it all – dramatic

and, of The Rings-style scenery, special effects

nudity for refreshingly, more male than female

an once. But at a rumoured cost of £7.4million

– riding episode, there’s a lot – mainly money

British on it being a big hit. The main star is

known actress Rosamund Pike, perhaps best

Miranda for Gone Girl and playing Bond girl

Frost in Die Another Day.

Amazon Prime Video is so confident

that we will love the eight-part blockbuster it has already started filming a second

and Peaky season, with comedian Meera Syal

the Blinders star Natasha O’keeffe among

on cast. Alongside Pike in the series, based Robert Jordan’s novels, are many lesserknown

to actors and there are stories untangle. So what’s it all about?

an Here, writer Emma Pryer gives us overview of one of the biggest productions

of the year.