{"id":17539,"date":"2026-10-31T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17539"},"modified":"2026-10-31T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:46:37","slug":"fans-say-ai-made-doctor-who-is-better-than-bbc-has-made-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17539","title":{"rendered":"Fans say AI made Doctor Who is better than BBC has made in years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to see where AI is taking us? How about allowing fans to actually take over a show heading down the tubes and generate better shows than the BBC. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheUnmadeSeason\">The Unmade Season<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theunmadeseason.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theunmadeseason.com\/\">website<\/a>) created a 100% AI generated 50 minute episode of Doctor Who that takes off after David Tennant&#8217;s reign called &#8220;The Curse of Kilmorag&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-aAYUBOqfRM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even more amazing, he did it largely at his own home setup with local versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/openart.ai\/ai-model\/ltx-2-3-ai-video-generator\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=search-google-us_pmax_models_top_en-pmax-acq-web&amp;utm_content=Kling4&amp;utm_id=24271345659&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_campaign=NA_PMax_Features&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;utm_id=24271345659&amp;hsa_acc=9574504800&amp;hsa_cam=24271345659&amp;hsa_grp=&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=x&amp;hsa_tgt=&amp;hsa_kw=&amp;hsa_mt=&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=24282465721&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAp6wzGT4u4Mfex7X_juStJE95PIvP&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwo5bXBhAEEiwAkgpgXCET16jG-qSJsRD-CpZxKgXA1dHaAUTbWJaNlzWdMDA96m9NqhKmiBoCSt8QAvD_BwE\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/openart.ai\/ai-model\/ltx-2-3-ai-video-generator\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=search-google-us_pmax_models_top_en-pmax-acq-web&amp;utm_content=Kling4&amp;utm_id=24271345659&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_campaign=NA_PMax_Features&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;utm_id=24271345659&amp;hsa_acc=9574504800&amp;hsa_cam=24271345659&amp;hsa_grp=&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=x&amp;hsa_tgt=&amp;hsa_kw=&amp;hsa_mt=&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=24282465721&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAp6wzGT4u4Mfex7X_juStJE95PIvP&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwo5bXBhAEEiwAkgpgXCET16jG-qSJsRD-CpZxKgXA1dHaAUTbWJaNlzWdMDA96m9NqhKmiBoCSt8QAvD_BwE\">LTX 2.5<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/minimax.io\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/minimax.io\/\">MiniMax<\/a> models, using minimal amounts of external data centre resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC&#8217;s new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/50-minute-ai-generated-doctor-who-episode-is-pretty-good-bbc-boss-says\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/50-minute-ai-generated-doctor-who-episode-is-pretty-good-bbc-boss-says\">pretty good<\/a>,&#8221; and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content &#8220;at the standard of a Hollywood studio.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does this say about current professional Hollywood and TV show runners when a fans are so upset at what you&#8217;re generating that they now start making episodes that rival professional productions on their home PC&#8217;s? When one fan creates an episode at home that gets over a million views when you spent literally millions on an episode of the actual show and only got a total of 3.48 million views (including later streaming watches).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to see where AI is taking us? How about allowing fans to actually take over a show heading down the tubes and generate better shows than the BBC. The Unmade Season (website) created a 100% AI generated 50 minute episode of Doctor Who that takes off after David Tennant&#8217;s reign called &#8220;The Curse of Kilmorag&#8221; Even more amazing, he did it largely at his own home setup with local versions of LTX 2.5 and MiniMax models, using minimal amounts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17539\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4yT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17541,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions\/17541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}