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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Netflix’s Upcoming Lincoln Lawyer Spinoff Is Only Possible Because of a Legal Issue · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: If you love Netflix's series adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer
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  Speaker 2: and are already mourning that its upcoming fifth season will
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  Speaker 2: be its last, there's news to raise your spirits to
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  Speaker 2: spin off in the works.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah show centered on Mickey's half sister, Emmy, who has
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  Speaker 3: been played by Kobe Smolders ever since she was introduced
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  Speaker 3: in season four. Now the word is Kobe will be
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  Speaker 3: on board to return to play her for the spinoff.
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  Speaker 4: And what's actually interesting about this spinoff is that it's
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  Speaker 4: based on a character that isn't even in the original novels.
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  Speaker 4: The Lincoln Lawyer was based on.
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  Speaker 2: Emmy only exists because of a legal issue. Netflix face
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  Speaker 2: Amazon owns the rights to Mickey's half brother Harry, who
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  Speaker 2: was in the books, and Prime even produced Bosh, a
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  Speaker 2: show about Harry. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So Netflix was forced to create Emmy simply to make
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  Speaker 3: sure the family dynamic, which was important to the story,
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  Speaker 3: was still in play.
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  Speaker 4: And audiences ended up falling in love with Emmy.
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  Speaker 2: Which leads us to her new Lincoln Lawyer spinoff, which
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  Speaker 2: will likely hit Netflix next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.