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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Jessica Biel Suprises Fans of 7th Heaven With Some of Her Plans for Its Reboot · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Jessica Biel has been hard at work as an executive
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  Speaker 2: producer of the highly anticipated reboot of 7th Heaven two
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  Speaker 2: decades after the original series that launched her career signed off.
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  Speaker 2: Both TV and the world have changed dramatically in the
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  Speaker 2: time since, and Jessica admits to Collider reimagining a show,
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  Speaker 2: particularly one so wholesome, comes with its challenges.
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  Speaker 1: She says the way they want to modernize it is
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  Speaker 1: to focus on the things that are currently happening for
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  Speaker 1: teenagers and families that have teenagers. all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to the youngest child.
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  Speaker 3: She highlights technology-based issues, school stuff, bullying stuff, drugs, alcohol,
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  Speaker 3: but they want to address all of those things in
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  Speaker 3: a very real way.
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  Speaker 2: Jessica knows the original Seventh Heaven touched a lot of
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  Speaker 2: similar subjects, but was very cautious about what they thought
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  Speaker 2: their audience in that particular era wanted to see, and
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  Speaker 2: that led to creative limitations.
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  Speaker 1: And she thinks with times changing, they have less limitations now.
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  Speaker 3: They still want to keep the DNA of what it was,
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  Speaker 3: where you can sit down and watch with your whole family,
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  Speaker 3: but they're not going to hold back as much as
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  Speaker 3: they did before.
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  Speaker 2: The reboot of 7th Heaven being developed by CBS.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.