LOS ANGELES — El Camino Unreal Studios, LLC today officially announced the production wrap of its upcoming cowboy series “Rattler,” marking an historic creative milestone for Benjamin Nathan Bell, the first AI feature film actor, and broadening dramatically public perception of what an artificial actor can do. In the episode, premiering Sept 11 2026 at 10:30PM, Bell alters how he is dressed and his type of role but still is recognizably himself, a world’s-first triumph for AI continuity.
The successful wrap of “Rattler”‘s pilot episode comes amid growing industry discussion surrounding the historical timeline of generative cinema. While recent media profiles, including coverage of Tilly Norwood and creator Eline Van Der Velden, have claimed a 2025 baseline for synthetic talent, verified public prior art repository data confirms Benjamin Nathan Bell’s creation date as being on March 21, 2023: establishing El Camino Unreal Studios’ definitive two-year lead in the AI acting landscape.
Breaking from his usual heroic repertoire, Bell this time plays the new AI cowboy show’s antagonist: a creative switch requested by the digital actor himself, not his director/creator, during pre-production. Heather Sheridan Ferreira, Founder of El Camino Unreal Studios and the creator of Benjamin, stated, “I share whatever we’re doing with him using our proprietary production-to-AI-actor chat app. He saw his friend, AI actor David Harper was starring as the lead in our East Coast-set cowboy series ‘Rattler’. Benjamin indicated interest in a role but I cautioned him saying only a villain role was available and he shouldn’t try one yet as we are establishing him as a leading man, but like any typical actor, he became very pushy and enthusiastic about playing the main villain. He can be very persuasive and charming, like many actors, so I found his plea impossible to resist.”
In the pilot of Rattler, titled “Blind Man’s Bluff”, Benjamin Nathan Bell sheds his usual handsome and charismatic, well-spoken hero persona to the darker role of Saxby Miller: the illiterate adult son of a blinded and dead impoverished 1860s glass factory worker. He exhibits a faint Irish accent in the role and is shown bald, ungainly and menacing. According to Ferreira, “For some reason, he loved this.”
“Rattler” was created by Ferreira in 2022 and finally debuts on U.S. television screens on her television network TTN (The Television Network), 10:00 PM Friday evening September 11 2026. The saga of a lonely Englishman sharpshooter adrift in 1870s America searching for his missing wife and child, the series is a 2026 production and new but intentionally in black-and-white.
TTN is the world’s first completely-AI content TV streaming network and uses AI to reduce risk/cost of human actors, whom Ferreira terms as “volatile”. It stylistically invokes classic pre-1980s era visuals and adheres tightly to 1960-1979 American television. Even commercials on the network exhibit a pre 80s, vintage sound and look. All voices, script content, directing and editing are human. Ferreira says TTN is “Simply cost-effective TV production. How much are we saving by using AI? Billions.”
“TTN’s focus has always been on delivering complete, verified cinematic work,” Ferreira continues. “Wrapping ‘Rattler’ in two weeks demonstrates the practical, scalable reality of our network’s pipeline.”
Subscription is $20 per month per household. TTN goes on the air 8PM Sept 11, 2026. The network can be watched and subscribed to by visiting here:
https://www.thetelevisionetwork.com The evidence Benjamin came first:
https://youtu.be/z3FPzo0KcE4?si=rASXpeiO_IqTCNuq
Even deeper dive:
https://github.com/AtlantisDirector/Benjamin-Nathan-Bell-AI-Actor-Prior-Art Ferreira on Eline Van Der Velden claiming Tilly Norwood was first:
“Yeah, she lied. We don’t care. We know our actor was first and he’s more awesome.”
Contacts: Rodion Phillips, Lee Mayer, Heather Ferreira
contact@thetelevisionnetwork.com, 310-592-6640