Whoopi Goldberg Joins Edinburgh TV Festival

The Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF), brought to you by YouTube and Screen Scotland, has lined up Whoopi Goldberg as the International Icon Interview.

With a career in TV, film and theatre lasting over 40 years, Goldberg is the only Black woman to have achieved the EGOT (winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Oscar). She will talk candidly about her life on- and off-screen and her experiences as a multi-award-winning artist, producer, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian.

Led by 2021 Advisory Chair Georgia Brown, this year’s festival theme is “Accelerating Change” and will see a focus on what and how change is happening in the TV business at every level, what can and does happen as a result of the issues being highlighted and discussed at the festival and the need to make positive change happen.

The festival week is taking place between August 23 to 26.

“We’re thrilled that Whoopi Goldberg is coming to the Edinburgh TV Festival,” said Creative Director Stewart Clarke. “Across TV, film and theater her work resonates the world over and Whoopi truly embodies the ‘International Icon’ billing.

“We are also eager to launch Spotlight,” he continued. “Our reimagined controller sessions which will bring a new, fresh approach to these hugely popular sessions and really dig into the industry trends that have a direct impact on commissioning.”