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Will ‘3 Body Problem’ Get a Second Season? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Netflix rolled some very pricey dice when they green lit
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  Speaker 2: the high concept sci fi show Three Body Problem. There
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  Speaker 2: was a calculator risk as it came from the proving
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  Speaker 2: Game of Thrones creators dB Wise and David Benioff, which
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  Speaker 2: would obviously attract interest, but it also came with a
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  Speaker 2: price tag of two hundred million dollars for the first
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  Speaker 2: season alone, and the subject matter is pretty out there
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  Speaker 2: for mainstream TV, and the initial perception was that the
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  Speaker 2: gamble had not paid off, as the first batch of
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  Speaker 2: streaming numbers suggested it might not be the hit Netflix
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  Speaker 2: hope for, but the show has continued to attract new fans,
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  Speaker 2: and a month after its debut, It's just spent its
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  Speaker 2: third week at number one on Netflix for any English
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  Speaker 2: language series. While Three Body Problem has slowly proven itself,
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  Speaker 2: Netflix has yet to order a second season, which could happen.
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  Speaker 3: They got to make a big decision there.
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  Speaker 2: It's writers promise this storyline only gets even bigger and
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  Speaker 2: wilder from here, which means the cost I'd go up.
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  Speaker 3: Three Body Problems out on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,