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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: There’s Now Concrete Evidence that Long Season Gaps Are Killing TV Shows · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Remember when a new season of your favorite TV show
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Speaker 1: was as reliable in the fall as an oak tree
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Speaker 1: changing color?
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Speaker 2: Literally every primetime show was on a yearly schedule and
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Speaker 2: returned in the new fall TV lineup. But nowadays, some
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Speaker 2: shows take two to three years between seasons. But hopefully
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Speaker 2: this new report by Luminate will convince TV networks that
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Speaker 2: it's not in their best interest.
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Speaker 1: Luminate is a company that tracks entertainment data, and their
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Speaker 1: numbers prove fans just lose their focus when it takes
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Speaker 1: too long to deliver. Basically, if you end a season
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Speaker 1: with a cliffhanger, after so long, fans can't even remember
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Speaker 1: what was hanging off the cliff.
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Speaker 3: I'm included.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they point to Netflix's Wednesday, which took three
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Speaker 2: years between its first and second season and lost almost 60%
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Speaker 2: of its viewers. And the Rings of Power, which lost 58%
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Speaker 2: after two years away. And Stranger Things saw a steady
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Speaker 2: decline between each big seasonal gap.
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Speaker 3: So the lesson, if you want to keep fans, don't
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Speaker 3: keep them waiting forever. That's direct from Hollywood.