Deepfake Neighbour Wars - ITV comedy starts 26th January 2023

[Vimster]

It's an interesting idea: basically Stella Street except they deepfaked celebs like Stormzy, Nicki Minaj and Tom Holland into neighbourly disputes. It's discussed in a Guardian article here. There's a teaser video but apart from a passable Christopher Walken you get no real idea of how it'll play out. The article talks about the technical challenges, like how the performers can only really look straight at the camera, can't do any movement or look in different directions. 

 

Personally this is going to be a watershed moment for deepfakes. The article quotes the writer saying a lot of people won't be aware of what a deepfake is, which is surprising. The show will have a disclaimer at the start but by all accounts they didn't get permission from the original celebs. Depending on how good the fakes look this will be an issue, even if they're just having an argument about a broken patio tile. 

 

This will either open the door for more or kick up enough of a stink to get celebs demanding permission, or even payment. Who can say?

 

It's ITV so it'll be bobbins anyway. 

 

 

[pledge]

Sounds like a lawsuit in waiting at least.

[Lochenvar]

Quote

Spencer Jones

[krenzler]

Abusing deepfake celebrity likeness is nothing new in certain circles. Or so I've been told.

[ZOK]

2 hours ago, Lochenvar said:

Who is he? I’ve never heard of him, but in the article it says this:

 

‘the show’s head writer, most recently seen on the BBC’s charmingly handmade comedy The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk’

 

The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk is easily one of the best contemporary comedy things the BBC have made, so that’s good heritage.

 

EDIT: Spencer Jones is Herman Clunkerdunk - he’s brilliant (on that)!

[Lochenvar]

22 hours ago, ZOK said:

Who is he? I’ve never heard of him, but in the article it says this:

 

‘the show’s head writer, most recently seen on the BBC’s charmingly handmade comedy The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk’

 

The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk is easily one of the best contemporary comedy things the BBC have made, so that’s good heritage.

 

EDIT: Spencer Jones is Herman Clunkerdunk - he’s brilliant (on that)!

 

I'm just being harsh. I saw him first on Upstart Crow, where he plays the actor who's a parody of Ricky Gervais. As I can't stand Gervais, that was bound to turn me against him. But then I did see him do a couple of bits on Catsdown and they weren't to my taste either, so he might just not be for me.

[ZOK]

I don’t know either of those. Watch Herman Clunkerdunk on iplayer, it’s amazing!

[Eighthours]

1 minute ago, ZOK said:

I don’t know either of those. Watch Herman Clunkerdunk on iplayer, it’s amazing!

 

I mean, it must be better than that title!

[ZOK]

Like I said, it’s one of the best comedy things the BBC have done.

[ImmaculateClump]

I was a fan of Herbert Clunkerdunk too. Nice gentle silliness.

His wife turned into Natalie Cassidy once during series 2!

https://streamable.com/alu1ss

 

This deepfake thing sounds like they've just hastily thrown a show together around a gimmick that'll generate some easy publicity, but we'll see. Hopefully it's not as bad as the spitting image reboot.

Like vimster says, It's ITV so it'll likely be dog-ends, though I'm interested to watch the first episode at least.

[James Lyon]

Reminds me of that show a few years back where they filmed celebrity lookalikes doing weird things through CCTV and the like. What was that called? I think it might have been based on some photographer's work who mocked up these kinds of images.

[ImmaculateClump]

Ah yeah, Alison Jackson.

Doubletake, won a bafta for innovation in 2002, beating the brasseye special.

[James Lyon]

2 minutes ago, ImmaculateClump said:

Ah yeah, Alison Jackson.

Doubletake, won a bafta for innovation in 2002, beating the brasseye special.

 

Thanks. It just came back to me. It was well done although I'm not sure if I found it particularly hilarious. I loved Stella Street, though.