Happy Valley, Slow Horses and BBC drama The Sixth Commandment dominate the nominations for this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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A TV series made entirely by generative AI is only three-to-five years away, according to the director of hits including Slow Horses and Anthony Hopkins movie One Life.
James Hawes spoke with legal teams at SAG-AFTRA and the WGA and undertook a poll with fellow directors and VFX workers after the BBC canceled long-running drama Doctors, in which he probed the likelihood of a fully AI series, he revealed today.
“The best guess was three to five years,” he told the British Film & High-End TV Inquiry. “Someone will say, ‘Create a scene in an ER room where a doctor comes in and he’s having an affair with a woman and they’re flirting, and someone is dying on the table,’ and [AI] will start to create it. Maybe it won’t be as polished as we are used to but that is how close we are getting.”
Hawes, who is also vice chair of Directors UK, raised concerns that shows with AI so central to their creation will have an impact on “vital training grounds” for below-the-line staffers making their way through the industry, citing Doctors.
He simultaneously acknowledged the “genie is out the bottle” on AI and the UK should work to catch up with the likes of the U.S., as he pointed to the launch of Open AI’s Sora program last week, which can generate scenes digitally.
“My worry is that if we don’t get up to speed with this then the AI-generated stories will come from elsewhere,” he added. “We need to take note and act on it now. Silicon Valley is way ahead.”
The U.S. writers and actors guilds were able to secure guardrails surrounding use of AI in their contracts with the AMPTP following lengthy and messy negotiations last year, and Hawes said the U.S. DGA is sitting down with members and studios to discuss this every few months. In
Happy Valley, Slow Horses and BBC drama The Sixth Commandment dominate the nominations for this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Following the successful run of Yellowstone on CBS, another Taylor Sheridan series is getting a lineaer window on the linear network. The popular original Paramount+ drama Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, will make its broadcast debut on CBS this summer. The series’ first season will air on the network ahead of Season 2 launching this fall exclusively on Paramount+.
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Taylor Swift brought out Sabrina Carpenter to perform a mash-up of ‘White Horse’ and ‘Coney Island’ during her show in Sydney last night (February 23) – watch below.The ‘Midnights’ pop star was playing the first of four consecutive dates at the city’s Accor Stadium as part of the Australian leg of her ongoing ‘Eras Tour’.Carpenter is supporting Swift on the current run, but was forced to cancel her set yesterday due to a delay caused by bad weather. To make up for it, Swift invited her onstage for the “surprise songs” segment of the gig.The pair duetted on a stripped-back piano version of ‘White Horse’, the original of which appears on Swift’s second album ‘Fearless’ (2008) and the 2021 ‘(Taylor’s Version)’ re-record.Ahead of the live collaboration, Carpenter recalled performing the song when she was nine years old.
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