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== Plot ==
==Premise==
''Delete'' imagines a disaster in our all-too-fragile digital world where the Internet becomes dangerously self-aware with one systematic purpose, to protect itself and destroy mankind. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out – create a second artificial intelligence, just as powerful, just as intelligent and just as dangerous, as the only possible solution able to combat it - but with governments in a panic and the whole world in chaos, are they even able to match this unprecedented foe...?
A disaster in our all-too-fragile [[virtual world]] where the Internet becomes dangerously autonomous and self-aware with one systematic purpose, to protect and petfect itself and destroy mankind. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out – create a second artificial intelligence, just as powerful, just as intelligent and just as dangerous, as the only possible solution able to combat it - but with governments in a mass panic and the real world in chaos, are they even able to match this unprecedented foe?


== Production details ==
== Production details ==

Revision as of 05:46, 30 June 2023

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GenreDrama
Directed bySteve Barron
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes2
Production
Executive producerShawn Williamson
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Release2012 (2012) –
2013 (2013)

Delete is a two-episode miniseries about a reporter and a young hacker who uncovers an elusive artificial intelligence/multi-agent system dwelling in his smartphone, which has suddenly become fully autonomous and sentient as it is malevolent.[1]

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Premise

A disaster in our all-too-fragile virtual world where the Internet becomes dangerously autonomous and self-aware with one systematic purpose, to protect and petfect itself and destroy mankind. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out – create a second artificial intelligence, just as powerful, just as intelligent and just as dangerous, as the only possible solution able to combat it - but with governments in a mass panic and the real world in chaos, are they even able to match this unprecedented foe?

Production details

Written and distributed by Sonar Entertainment of New York City, the series consists of two feature-length episodes. It was shot on location in Vancouver and produced by Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures.[2]

Reception

The series won two Leo Awards, from the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, for Best Picture Editing and Best Television Movie.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Delete". Radio Times. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Patten, Dominic (August 14, 2012). "Seth Green Joins Hacker Miniseries 'Delete'". Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  3. ^ "Delete (2013 TV Mini-Series) Awards". IMDB. Retrieved June 1, 2016.


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