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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Will There Be Spinoffs of The Pitt? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. The Pit was honored as the Most
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  Speaker 1: Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmys over this past weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which was a major win for HBO, and just as importantly,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a commercial hit as well, building up a
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  Speaker 1: passionate fan base after only one season and with a
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  Speaker 1: style of show not really seen on streamers, and with
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  Speaker 1: success like that, particularly with a procedural show, there's rumors
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  Speaker 1: of spinoffs, but HBO's headhun show Casey Bloyse says that
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  Speaker 1: isn't exactly the plan. Telling Variety. When we decided to
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  Speaker 1: make The Pit, the idea was, we're going to try
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  Speaker 1: this and develop other shows in this model. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be spinoffs. But the Pit showed that it
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  Speaker 1: could work for us. So we've been developing other types
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  Speaker 1: of shows, a cop show, a family show. We'll try
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  Speaker 1: to do it again, but the Pit is like lightning
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  Speaker 1: in a bottle. So the idea that we'll just do
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  Speaker 1: another one and it's going to work out, you never know,
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  Speaker 1: but it proved that model could work in streaming. That's
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  Speaker 1: HBO's CEO, Casey Blow on their plans to capitalize on
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  Speaker 1: the success of The Pit. Season one is now streaming
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  Speaker 1: on HBO Max. That's direct from Hollywood.