Since Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003), the intermedial and economic expansion of fantasy productions has, in recent years, reached a new peak, especially with HBO's successful series Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-2019) and its literary model, George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. The extent to which the book and the series can be considered as central for recent fantasy media, has hardly been explored yet. The aim of this workshop is to observe and evaluate these current developments in the genre. To this end, three ongoing big-budget fantasy productions in particular will be examined: The Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon (HBO, 2022), the Lord of the Rings spin-off The Rings of Power (Amazon, 2022), and the series The Witcher (Netflix, 2019-2021). In this perspective, the way in which popular fantasy addresses popular discourses of diversity or political correctness and interacts with them will also be examined. Furthermore, the workshop will discuss the growing importance of historical realism in the genesis of neomedieval worlds. The relationship between knowledge of the Middle Ages authorised by the academia and the "popular" knowledge generated in series may thus have to be reevaluated.