The BBC’s new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as “pretty good,” and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content “at the standard of a Hollywood studio.”
Brittin became boss of the UK’s iconic broadcasting company in May this year, after almost two decades at Google, where he wound up working as the company’s UK managing director.
Now in charge of the BBC, Brittin faces a tough task of making further drastic cuts to the corporation’s spending, while it continues to try and produce world-class programming — including its flagship sci-fi adventure series that’s currently on hiatus after a disastrous few years.
Doctor Who fans largely agree that their favorite show has declined in quality over the years, but especially over the past two seasons which featured Ncuti Gatwa in the role, and the return of Russell T Davies as showrunner. After just two seasons, this era of the show was unceremoniously ended when co-funding partner Disney ditched the series, prompting the departure of Gatwa in a reshot ending. A later promise to mount a one-off Christmas special that could tie-up the era’s remaining plotlines was later scrapped too, with Davies and production company Bad Wolf also exiting.
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