{"id":11014,"date":"2021-05-27T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/whoopi-goldberg-joins-edinburgh-tv-festival\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:30:44","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-joins-edinburgh-tv-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/05\/27\/whoopi-goldberg-joins-edinburgh-tv-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg Joins Edinburgh TV Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF), brought to you by YouTube and Screen Scotland, has lined up Whoopi Goldberg as the International Icon Interview.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Led by 2021 Advisory Chair Georgia Brown, this year\u2019s festival theme is &#8220;Accelerating Change&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The festival week is taking place between August 23 to 26.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re thrilled that Whoopi Goldberg is coming to the Edinburgh TV Festival,\u201d said Creative Director Stewart Clarke. \u201cAcross TV, film and theater her work resonates the world over and Whoopi truly embodies the \u2018International Icon\u2019 billing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also eager to launch Spotlight,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF), brought to you by YouTube and Screen Scotland, has lined up Whoopi Goldberg as the International Icon Interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":11015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1610],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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