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Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, the showrunner for Netflix's hit new series The Witcher, recently raved on Twitter about how happy she is that interest in the show has built up to such a fever pitch that it's having an unexpected side effect. "This could not make me happier," she tweeted about the fact that the publisher of Andrzej Sapkowski's bestselling series of novels that the show is based on is having to print "more than half a million" new books to meet demand for the novels, on account of the Netflix show generating new fans and renewed interest in them.
Netflix has already green-lit a second season of the series, for which filming reportedly begins in just a matter of weeks -- though we may have to wait until spring of 2021 to enjoy it, based on one estimate (involving the fact that it took 14 months before filming began and the first season of the show was actually released). All that said, though, the show certainly seems to have found a sizeable audience, based in part on the online chatter and not to mention all the memes and hilarious social media posts about that song on the show that will bury itself in your head. Just how popular is the series, though, really?
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