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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Did Fox Delay the Return on Baywatch? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: So the upcoming Baywatch reboot will not be coming to
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Speaker 2: Fox this fall as originally planned, but it appears that's
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Speaker 2: only because the network really believes in the project and
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Speaker 2: wants to kick it off in front of the biggest audience.
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Speaker 1: Possible exactly, So they've announced that they're pushing the series
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Speaker 1: premiere into late January, which happens to be right when
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Speaker 1: Fox is hosting the NFL's NFC Championship, so they can
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Speaker 1: promote the show during the game and hope a good
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Speaker 1: chunk of that huge audience will stick around and watch
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Speaker 1: the premiere right after it's over.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're going all in on the cast Steven Ammel,
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Speaker 2: Noah Beck, Shane Mitchell, Livy Dunn, Brooks Nader, plus a
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Speaker 2: pair of original cast members Erica Alaniak and David Chocoji.
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Speaker 2: Fox says they feel pressure to make it great, which
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Speaker 2: is the other reason they've pushed the premiere by a
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Speaker 2: few months. Look for Baywatch in January. That's direct from Hollywood.