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How Will Scripted TV Shows Handle COVID-19 In Next Season's Storylines? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest scripted. Hollywood TV shows
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  Speaker 1: have largely gone dark during the pandemic, but eventually, in
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  Speaker 1: the fairly near future, cameras will begin rolling again. But
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  Speaker 1: one major question remains for every single show on TV.
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  Speaker 1: Should they write COVID nineteen into the storylines Curb your enthusiasms.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Schaefer thinks it could create quite a few funny
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  Speaker 1: storylines on the show. He says, there's plenty of bad
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  Speaker 1: behavior to look back on, like people who said they
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  Speaker 1: were social distancing but clearly get a haircut every few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Superstar Ryan Murphy, who has multiple shows under his umbrella,
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  Speaker 1: has zero interest in infusing the pandemic, and his storylines
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  Speaker 1: is I'm personally more interested in things that are about hope,
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  Speaker 1: beauty and romance, the opposite of the darkness that we're
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  Speaker 1: going through. I Meanwhile, many shows that deal directly with
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  Speaker 1: first responders, like Foxes One, their show runner Tim Yere says,
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  Speaker 1: if we pretend it's an alter universe where this thing
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  Speaker 1: hasn't happened, we'd make ourselves irrelevant. Webtually see how it
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  Speaker 1: unfold soon. That's direct from Hollywood.