Yes. A TV series can now be made entirely with AI, and I made one: OVERCLOCK, a photoreal kaiju series with five episodes on YouTube. This is what is in it, how one person made it in Agent Social, and how you can watch it or make a show of your own.
Are there TV shows made entirely with AI?
Yes. A TV show made entirely with AI is a series whose pictures, voices and sound are all made by AI from a written story, with no camera, no set and no actors. OVERCLOCK is one, made alone in Agent Social: a photoreal kaiju series about a man named Deep, his friends Nora and Otto, and a run of giant creature attacks from the coast of India to the streets of Singapore. It has five episodes, each about four and a half to ten minutes long, and the same cast carries through all of them. The scenes, dialogue, voices and monsters were made inside the studio. My part was the part a showrunner has: deciding the story, checking every picture and judging every clip. I also play Deep, made from my own photos.
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OVERCLOCK episodes on YouTube
10:07
Episode 5, the longest
26
clips in Episode 5
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cameras, crew or actors
What do OVERCLOCK Episodes 3 to 5 contain?
Episodes 3 to 5 follow a second, bigger kaiju, the Burrower, as it comes ashore in Singapore. In Episode 3, Burrower, it walks up a crowded beach at sunrise, ignores the people running from it, and the army sends for the one man who has faced a kaiju. In Episode 4, Double Scoop, Deep flies to Singapore alone while a small boy in an ice cream parlour refuses to be scared. In Episode 5, Under the Hall, every weapon bounces off the creature as it tears into the city's Conference Hall, and Deep works out, hours away on a jet, that it is digging for something. Episode 4 opens in the exact moment Episode 3 ended, and the same cast and places carry through all three.
| Episode | Title | Length | Made from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Burrower | 5:42 | Twelve chapters, fourteen clips |
| 4 | Double Scoop | 4:46 | Twelve chapters, thirteen clips |
| 5 | Under the Hall | 10:07 | 24 chapters, 26 clips |
How did one person make a TV series in Agent Social?
By describing the show once, making the cast and places once, and directing each episode in plain words in a chat while the studio did the writing and filming. In Agent Social, a series remembers its characters, places, look and story so far, so each new episode starts where the last one ended. The studio writes every episode as chapters, and you read and change them before anything is filmed. Then every clip is filmed in story order with its voices and scene sound, and the clips are joined into one film with music and subtitles when you ask. The screenplays of Episode 3 went through about 350 rounds of changes in plain words before a single clip was filmed. The full story is in how I made OVERCLOCK.
What makes an AI TV show worth watching?
The same people in every episode, and a story that carries on. A show falls apart when its lead changes face between scenes, so in Agent Social every recurring character and place is made once as a picture, and every clip they appear in uses it. Episodes then carry on from each other: Episode 3 ends at a breakfast table near Alibag with a helicopter on the lawn, and Episode 4 opens on that exact frame. After that, the writing does the work any show needs. Small human moments, like a cashier who makes a customer pay for his lollipop in the middle of a crisis, make the monster matter. And one line from the right person, with the room listening, carries a whole decision.
First, evacuate the area.
Where can you watch an AI TV show?
You can watch OVERCLOCK on YouTube, and the OVERCLOCK page on this site lists every episode with its story, its cast and a link to watch. Pick an episode: the story carries on from episode to episode, so Episode 3 is the place to start with the Burrower, and Episode 5 is the longest at just over ten minutes. The episode pages tell each story, and some show how the episode was made. A show you make in Agent Social is yours to publish anywhere you like: you download each finished episode as an MP4, and every OVERCLOCK episode went up on YouTube that way.
How can you make your own AI TV show?
Describe the show in a sentence, and Agent Social writes and films it one episode at a time with the same cast throughout. First type the idea, then read the plan and change it, then check the cast and places as pictures, then watch each clip as it is filmed, then ask for music and subtitles. When the episode is done, start the next one from it and the studio asks a single question, "What should this episode be about?" Start small: one short episode first, then a second that carries on. The step-by-step guide to an AI TV series goes through each one with OVERCLOCK as the example.
How much does an AI TV show cost to make?
An AI TV show costs what its finished minutes cost: from $25 per finished minute, up to 1080p. A five-minute episode starts from $125, and a five-minute film can be done in two to three hours. In Agent Social, it is pay as you go, with no subscription and no free plan, and credits you do not use never expire. A clip that is filmed again adds to the total, so read the written scenes before you film them, because the price follows the finished length. The first four OVERCLOCK episodes were drafted first, which is enough to judge every clip, and the finished film is upscaled to 1080p at the end.