“Next Stop Paris” is the first original series produced by Tcl TV Plus Studios, and features voiceover actors providing dialogue for AI-generated characters. (Screen capture by The Desk)
First stop, Paris. Actually, it’s called Next Stop Paris — an original film produced by Tcl, a firm better known for making TVs, soundbars, washing machines, and air conditioners than movies. They did what you’d think techy people would do. They used AI to create the characters. The “original” movie will run on Tcl’s free, ad-supported streaming service, Tcl TV Plus. Remember the good old days when we’d just call TV and watch real people? There’s still one twist.
Tcl is using real voiceover actors for AI characters. What? Why? Why would someone take half a walk? I mean, if you’re going to create characters with AI, why not finish the job with AI voices? It’s...
First stop, Paris. Actually, it’s called Next Stop Paris — an original film produced by Tcl, a firm better known for making TVs, soundbars, washing machines, and air conditioners than movies. They did what you’d think techy people would do. They used AI to create the characters. The “original” movie will run on Tcl’s free, ad-supported streaming service, Tcl TV Plus. Remember the good old days when we’d just call TV and watch real people? There’s still one twist.
Tcl is using real voiceover actors for AI characters. What? Why? Why would someone take half a walk? I mean, if you’re going to create characters with AI, why not finish the job with AI voices? It’s...
- 4/19/2024
- by Charles Benaiah
- The Desk
The DC Comics hero Flash is, fittingly, on the fast-track to get his own series on The CW, it was announced Tuesday morning at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour.
“We plan to introduce… the origin story of Dr. Barry Allen” — one of Flash’s multiple alter egos across DC lore — during Season 2 of Arrow, network boss Mark Pedowitz explained. Hoping to firm up The CW’s footing in the DC universe, “We felt this was a very organic way to get there.”
Pedowitz noted that since it’s an origin story — and given Arrow‘s own grounded nature...
“We plan to introduce… the origin story of Dr. Barry Allen” — one of Flash’s multiple alter egos across DC lore — during Season 2 of Arrow, network boss Mark Pedowitz explained. Hoping to firm up The CW’s footing in the DC universe, “We felt this was a very organic way to get there.”
Pedowitz noted that since it’s an origin story — and given Arrow‘s own grounded nature...
- 7/30/2013
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
By Eddy Friedfeld
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When asked why most of Sid Caesar’s writers were young and Jewish, the late’ great Larry Gelbart replied, “Because most of our parents were old and Jewish.”
The answer to why there were so many Jews in Broadway musicals may not be as glibly succinct, but in Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, which debuts on PBS on January 1 at 9:30 p.m., the answers are insightful and amazingly entertaining.
Written, produced and directed by Emmy-Award Winner Michael Kantor (Broadway- The American Musical and Make ‘Em Laugh- The Funny Business of America), the 90 minute documentary tries to answer the question of why the Broadway musical proven to be such fertile territory for Jewish artists of all kind, featuring icons from Broadway’s golden age, including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...
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When asked why most of Sid Caesar’s writers were young and Jewish, the late’ great Larry Gelbart replied, “Because most of our parents were old and Jewish.”
The answer to why there were so many Jews in Broadway musicals may not be as glibly succinct, but in Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, which debuts on PBS on January 1 at 9:30 p.m., the answers are insightful and amazingly entertaining.
Written, produced and directed by Emmy-Award Winner Michael Kantor (Broadway- The American Musical and Make ‘Em Laugh- The Funny Business of America), the 90 minute documentary tries to answer the question of why the Broadway musical proven to be such fertile territory for Jewish artists of all kind, featuring icons from Broadway’s golden age, including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...
- 12/30/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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