(CBN News) With some of the most popular shows on streaming platforms costing upwards of $10 million per episode, it’s a real come-from-behind success story to see the faith-based drama “The Chosen” earning north of 400 million streams on a budget of around $22 million total.
It’s even more impressive when you consider the show, which just ended its second season, is available for free to anyone who wants to watch it.
Derral Eves, executive producer of “The Chosen,” recently told Faithwire the decision to air the wildly popular series free of charge was prompted by what he called a “Red Sea moment.”
“Every time along the project, we hit a wall,” he said. “It’s what we call a ‘Red Sea moment.’ It’s the moment we get to the Red Sea, we look behind us, you know, here’s Egypt’s army coming to attack us, and we just can’t go anywhere.”