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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: There’s an Entirely New Genre Taking Over TV · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Every TV show you think about, what do you like?
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  Speaker 2: It falls under a genre or a category. So do
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  Speaker 2: you think you heard of all the categories and genres?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, jes you ask you makes me say probably not.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. There's a new term floating around in Hollywood to
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  Speaker 2: describe the hottest new sub category of TV. And it
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  Speaker 2: is and it is prestigials.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, like a combo of prestige and prestige. Procedural.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, prosidurals say that with peros in your mouth. Her.
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  Speaker 2: It's all thanks to the critical and commercial success of
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  Speaker 2: HBO Smashed the Pit. I mean that did it?
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  Speaker 3: It like created this new subgenre. Yeah, it won five Emmys.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Most procedural shows, like cop shows, you know, so many
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  Speaker 2: of them are all the time, don't typically clean up
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  Speaker 2: with the awards, but they do make a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of dough whatever us fans love them.
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  Speaker 2: HBO leaning into the prestigials. Their first two news shows
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  Speaker 2: are cop show and a family drama How to Survive
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  Speaker 2: Without Me It's called They're not expensive, a shoot, easy
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  Speaker 2: to deliver annually, and they're being infused with peak TV storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: So it's working.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sounds a lot less costly than shows with I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, dragons or aliens things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Pit is on HBO until these other
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  Speaker 2: prestidurals arrive.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.