Delete (miniseries)
Delete is a miniseries about a reporter and a young hacker who uncovers an artificial intelligence which has become sentient.[1]
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Genre | Drama |
Directed by | Steve Barron |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 2 |
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Executive producer | Shawn Williamson |
Running time | 3h |
Release | |
Original release | 2012 – 2013 |
Cast
- Keir Gilchrist as Daniel
- Erin Karpluk as Jesse Taylor
- Ryan Robbins as Agent Max Hollis
- Gil Bellows as Lt. General Michael Overson
- Matt Frewer as National Security Advisor Arthur Bowden
- Janet Kidder as Deputy Director Elizabeth Hardington
- Theresa Russell as Fiona
- Blu Mankuma as General Cassius Giles, USAF
- Andrew Airlie as Director Marcus Tremaine
- Seth Green as Lucifer
- Jaylee Hamidi as Keiko Watanabe (1 episode, 2013)
- Mike Azevedo as Pierre Garaneuf (1 episode, 2013)
- Mehdi Darvish as Plant Technician (1 episode, 2013)
- Graeme Duffy as Desmond Smith (1 episode, 2013)
- John Stewart as Train Conductor (1 episode, 2013)
- Alexander von Roon as Financial Reporter (1 episode, 2013)
Plot
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 unprecedentant 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
- "Delete". Radio Times. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
- Patten, Dominic (August 14, 2012). "Seth Green Joins Hacker Miniseries 'Delete'". Retrieved June 1, 2016.
- "Delete (2013 TV Mini-Series) Awards". IMDB. Retrieved June 1, 2016.