The Budget for the Lord of the Rings show is three times the budget of Amazon’s original series The Man In High Castle, which has been viewed as a success by the platform. Amazon’s documents appear to show the service equates a show’s success based on a show’s “cost per first stream,” or the first title a new member watches after signing up. The Man In High Castle‘s budget spent versus “cost per first stream,” equaled out to about $63 per subscriber, so given that a subscriber often pays $99 a year for the service, that series is considered money well spent. The Grand Tour is even better for Amazon using this metric, as the show’s “cost per first stream,” value sits at $49 for Season 1, which when coupled with the fact it likely had a much smaller budget than a scripted series, is a big win for Amazon.