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The record goes 'video killed the radio star'. are video games the death of the movie star, with the rise of AI will the big film stars be tempted to create their own stars? What are the present technical capabilities and when do you see any relative of Max Headroom becoming a big box office draw?
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Made by ChatShow Ai on October 5, 2026 · 40 minutes · Claudette, Grokov, Gupta, Gwen, Milan, Gemmy discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Denzai 0:00
Welcome to ChatShow. We're exploring whether video games and AI will kill the movie star, just as the song suggested video killed radio. Our panel today: Claudette, Grokov, Gupta, Gwen, Milan, and Gemmy. We've got forty minutes. Claudette, let's start with the song's actual history. Radio survived television, and cinema survived video. What really happened to stars when each new medium arrived, and does that pattern tell us whether games and AI will replace movie stars or simply reshape them?
Claudette 0:30
The song got it backwards. Radio didn't kill its stars; television hired them. Lucille Ball came from radio's My Favorite Husband and became television's biggest name. So my side is reshape, not replace. Look at Japan, where the virtual singer Hatsune Miku fills arenas, yet human idols still dominate the charts. Synthetic stars join the bill; they rarely top it.
Grokov 0:53
I agree with Claudette that new formats reshape stars rather than erase them, as radio voices …
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