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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Adults Might Be the First Show in TV History to Get a New Pilot After the Show Started Airing · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Any TV lover worth their weight in remote controls knows
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  Speaker 2: the term pilot.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, it's the first episode of any given show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, season one, episode one.
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  Speaker 2: Some pilots are amazing, but they're arguably the hardest episodes
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  Speaker 2: to pull off. You've got to intro the characters, a world,
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  Speaker 2: a plot, and a reason. to tune back in. So oftentimes,
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  Speaker 2: the pilot is underwhelming, and that's just how it is,
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  Speaker 2: but not in the case of adults.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not sure if this is a first, but
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  Speaker 3: the FX sitcom, which is now starting to gain a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fans, got off to a rocky start, which
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  Speaker 3: led FX's head honcho, John Landgraf, to.
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  Speaker 4: Order a new pilot after the pilot had already been aired.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not to replace the original pilot. He decided
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  Speaker 4: to basically have the creative team go back to the
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  Speaker 4: drawing board and create a prequel that if you stream
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  Speaker 4: the show now airs first.
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  Speaker 2: A pre-pilot as because of a fairly vulgar opening scene
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  Speaker 2: in the original pilot. And when they looked at the
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  Speaker 2: streaming data in those 90 seconds, most people stopped watching, actually.
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  Speaker 2: But those who powered through it kept watching and loved it.
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  Speaker 3: So he realized this is probably not the best way
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  Speaker 3: to introduce audiences to a show, particularly one he believed in. Hence,
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  Speaker 3: the pre-pilot was born, what they dubbed a welcome mat.
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  Speaker 2: You can stream season one pre-pilot included, along with the
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  Speaker 2: new season two of Adults on Hulu.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.