April 22, 2024 • 54 secs
3 Body Problem is the biggest show on Netflix, but will it get a 2nd season?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Netflix rolled some very pricey dice when they green lit
the high concept sci fi show Three Body Problem. There
was a calculator risk as it came from the proving
Game of Thrones creators dB Wise and David Benioff, which
would obviously attract interest, but it also came with a
price tag of two hundred million dollars for the first
season alone, and the subject matter is pretty out there
for mainstream TV, and the initial perception was that the
(00:24):
gamble had not paid off, as the first batch of
streaming numbers suggested it might not be the hit Netflix
hope for, but the show has continued to attract new fans,
and a month after its debut, It's just spent its
third week at number one on Netflix for any English
language series. While Three Body Problem has slowly proven itself,
Netflix has yet to order a second season, which could happen.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They got to make a big decision there.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's writers promise this storyline only gets even bigger and
wilder from here, which means the cost I'd go up.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Three Body Problems out on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's direct from Hollywood,
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Netflix rolled some very pricey dice when they green lit
the high concept sci fi show Three Body Problem. There
was a calculator risk as it came from the proving
Game of Thrones creators dB Wise and David Benioff, which
would obviously attract interest, but it also came with a
price tag of two hundred million dollars for the first
season alone, and the subject matter is pretty out there
for mainstream TV, and the initial perception was that the
(00:24):
gamble had not paid off, as the first batch of
streaming numbers suggested it might not be the hit Netflix
hope for, but the show has continued to attract new fans,
and a month after its debut, It's just spent its
third week at number one on Netflix for any English
language series. While Three Body Problem has slowly proven itself,
Netflix has yet to order a second season, which could happen.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They got to make a big decision there.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's writers promise this storyline only gets even bigger and
wilder from here, which means the cost I'd go up.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Three Body Problems out on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's direct from Hollywood,
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