No Big Deal – is this how AI ends humanity, with a sitcom so bad it bores you?
Truly deathly … an AI actor in No Big Deal, a comedy billed as ‘The Office meets Dragons’ Den’. Photograph: YouTubeView image in fullscreenTruly deathly … an AI actor in No Big Deal, a comedy billed as ‘The Office meets Dragons’ Den’. Photograph: YouTubeTV reviewTelevisionReviewNo Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav.
- ▪Truly deathly … an AI actor in No Big Deal, a comedy billed as ‘The Office meets Dragons’ Den’.
- ▪Photograph: YouTubeView image in fullscreenTruly deathly … an AI actor in No Big Deal, a comedy billed as ‘The Office meets Dragons’ Den’.
- ▪Photograph: YouTubeTV reviewTelevisionReviewNo Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav.
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| Original publisher | the Guardian |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/15/no-big-deal-review-is-this-how-ai-ends-humanity-with-a-sitcom-so-bad-it-bores-you-to-death |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:37:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T21:41:52.804Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T21:41:52.804Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | wmCdAlH-0fi9 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Truly deathly … an AI actor in No Big Deal, a comedy billed as ‘The Office meets Dragons’ Den’. Photograph: YouTubeView image in fullscreenTruly deathly … an AI actor in No Big Deal, a comedy billed as ‘The Office meets Dragons’ Den’. Photograph: YouTubeTV reviewTelevisionReviewNo Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav. But this AI-created workplace comedy is so bad that even the greatest actors alive couldn’t stop it being unwatchableStuart HeritageTue 15 Sep 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Tue 15 Sep 2026 11.02 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleAs you will no doubt be aware, one Anthropic researcher claimed there is a greater than one in 10 chance that…
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