Tag: Edinburgh TV Festival

Presenter, broadcaster and journalist Claudia Winkleman is to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award at this year’s TV Awards at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Award-winning actress, writer, comedian and author Meera Syal will be the Alternative MacTaggart speaker at the 2023 Edinburgh TV Festival.

The Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF), brought to you by YouTube and Freeview, has revealed the shortlist for its TV Awards, which features contenders this year such as Chernobyl, Years & Years and The Crown.

A panel convened by the Edinburgh TV Festival saw Cathy Payne, Jens Richter, Louise Pedersen, Ruth Berry, David Cornwall and Jonathan Ford discussing the evolving role of the distributor and managing business amid the COVID-19 pandemic in conversation with Stewart Clarke.

This year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, held from August 21 to 23, is expected to draw around 2,000 delegates from across the spectrum of major networks, production companies and the digital world.

Comedy Central’s reboot of the game-show format Blockbusters is set to open this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, with Dara O’Briain on board to host.

Channel 4's Alex Mahon, YouTube's Ben McOwen Wilson, Lionsgate’s Sandra Stern, all3media's Jane Turton and NBCUniversal International Studios' Jeff Wachtel are on board for the State of the TV Nation panel debate at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

TV personality, journalist and politician Jerry Springer is set to deliver the Alternative MacTaggart at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival.

The Edinburgh TV Festival has revealed the shortlist of nominations for the Edinburgh TV Awards, which this year sees categories expanded further to recognize online content as well as smaller production companies.

Hugh Laurie, the award-winning actor, director, singer, musician, screenwriter and author, is set to receive the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Outstanding Achievement Award.