Will AI Replace Actors?
On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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🤖 We’re tackling the big questions today with a big chat about the biggest development in the TV and film industry for generations: AI actors.
What can and can’t AI do and how will studios and audiences respond as its shadow looms greater and greater over film and other creative industries?
Back on terra firma we also look at book to film adaptations, and Ben’s had a tree fall on his house.
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