AI Sitcom 'No Big Deal' Slammed as Unwatchable — SkimNews
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- No Big Deal is an AI-generated workplace sitcom that premiered on YouTube, billed as "The Office meets Dragons' Den" about angel investors hearing product pitches, and had drawn just 376 viewers at the time of the review
- Andrew Dickinson, a former angel investor, wrote the script himself after deciding a traditional television production would be too slow and expensive, then handed all characters, locations, and scenes to AI to generate
- The first episode features pitches including a toilet that analyses poo and a sofa designed to have sex on, which the reviewer calls "one-note and bawdy" with jokes that fail to land
- The reviewer documents persistent AI-generation flaws: characters who change positions between cuts, lips that don't sync with dialogue, a fist shake that judders and glitches, and extras who sit motionless like powered-down robots
- Despite the script's shortcomings, the reviewer argues even the funniest sitcom ever written would be ruined by AI's current visual and vocal execution, concluding the show is unwatchable on its production alone
Why it matters: Dickinson's project represents an early test case of whether a human writer can salvage AI-generated production: the review concludes the answer is no, with continuity errors, dead-eyed characters, and broken lip-sync undermining even a human-penned script, suggesting fully AI-produced entertainment remains unviable regardless of writing quality.
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