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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: You WILL NOT BELIEVE the Expected Price Tag for HBO’s Upcoming Harry Potter TV Show · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The budget of TV shows has ballooned quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: since streaming took over, but the cost to recreate believable
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  Speaker 2: wizardry is apparently record breaking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The budget for the upcoming Harry Potter TV show on
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  Speaker 3: HBO is widely rumored to be easily the most expensive
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  Speaker 3: show in television history.
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  Speaker 2: One of HBO's topic execs, are head of Programming, did
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  Speaker 2: just admit the cost is unprecedented, telling Deadline they made
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  Speaker 2: a financial investment that normally you wouldn't make with a
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  Speaker 2: television show.
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  Speaker 4: M m. But she got Potterhead so excited when she
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  Speaker 4: described that the massive investment translates to calling the world
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  Speaker 4: they've created truly extraordinary. They invited influencer fans to visit
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  Speaker 4: the set, and every single one of them burst out
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  Speaker 4: in tears literally just from seeing it with their own eyes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The HBO execs, Sarah Aubrey says even she is in awe.
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  Speaker 2: She's been on a lot of big shoots and has
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  Speaker 2: never seen anything quite like this. Her jaw was on
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  Speaker 2: the floor. Season one of Harry Potter should land on
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  Speaker 2: HBO early next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.