Contents

Welcome 02 Sponsors 04 Festival Information 09 Festival Extras 10 Free Clinics 11 Social Events 12 Channel of the Year Awards 13

Orientation Guide 14 Festival Venues 15

Friday Sessions 16 Schedule at a Glance 24 Saturday Sessions 26 Sunday Sessions 36

Fast Track and The Network 42 Executive Committee 44 Advisory Committee 45 Festival Team 46 Welcome to Edinburgh 2009

Tim Hincks is Executive Chair of the MediaGuardian Elaine Bedell is Advisory Chair of the 2009 Our opening session will be a celebration – Edinburgh International Television Festival and MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television or perhaps, more simply, a hoot. Ant & Dec will Chief Executive of Endemol UK. He heads the Festival and Director of Entertainment and host a special edition of TV’s Got Talent, as those Festival’s Executive Committee that meets five Comedy at ITV. She, along with the Advisory who work mostly behind the scenes in television times a year and is responsible for appointing the Committee, is directly responsible for this year’s demonstrate whether they actually have got Advisory Chair of each Festival and for overall line-up of more than 50 sessions. any talent. governance of the event. When I was asked to take on the Advisory Chair One of the most contentious debates is likely Three ingredients make up a great Edinburgh role last year, the world looked a different place – to follow on Friday, about pay in television. Senior TV Festival: a stellar MacTaggart Lecture, high the sun was shining, the banks were intact, and no executives will defend their pay packages and ‘James Murdoch’s profile and influential speakers, and thought- one had really heard of Robert Peston. And in fact, discuss the price of on-screen talent, in To provoking agenda-setting sessions. I’m delighted I was in a different place: at the BBC, enjoying the Pay or Not to Pay. And in another useful session MacTaggart Lecture promises that this year we have all three coming together privilege of managing millions of pounds of on Saturday – SOS: Save Our Sector – we’ll be to be a classic’ to form an irresistible and impossibly exciting guaranteed, public money. offering tips on how indies can survive the cocktail (the only one you’re going to get by the downturn when broadcasters are squeezing tight. Tim Hincks Executive Chair But in a stormy Autumn, just as we started our way, given that Channel 4 are no longer teaming monthly committee meetings, the world changed. There’ll also be sessions looking to an online up with Soho House). Banks collapsed, Peston became a permanent future. Hear Roly Keating outline the BBC’s James Murdoch’s MacTaggart Lecture promises fixture on the ten o’clock news, and advertising archive strategy on Saturday, and learn about the to be a classic. I’m delighted he’s agreed to deliver revenues fell off a steep cliff. It’s been one of the content strategies from competing beasts Hulu it. His message won’t, I think it is safe to predict, toughest years television has ever known. and Google. And how can you make money out go down well with every delegate (or public of one, very good, internet idea? Hear from those But during this economic turmoil, something else service broadcaster) but Murdochs have never who already have in How To Make Money Online extraordinary happened: people turned to terrestrial much cared about that sort of thing. And more to on Friday afternoon. television viewing, and in record numbers. Britain’s the point, pay TV appears to be one business Got Talent in particular seemed to strike a chord There will be major policy debates with Ed Richards model whose future is very bright – the odd Ofcom with a nation who’d grown cynical with institutions, from Ofcom, the shadow spokesman, Ed Vaizey, ruling aside. Don’t miss it. but found a shared community in watching the and all the key broadcasters in a public service ‘We want to celebrate the And the stellar bookings don’t stop there. Ant & display of British eccentricity and talent. And it broadcasting debate on Saturday afternoon. Dec, Robert Peston, David Simon and Ross Kemp wasn’t just Britain’s Got Talent – Andy Murray at We’ve got some thought-provoking keynote very best... whilst examining will be on a platform somewhere near you, together Wimbledon, Comic Relief, X Factor – all proved speakers including NewsCorp’s James Murdoch, some of the more complex with all the channel controllers and the majority of that television can still unite a country and provide who will get the debate under way on Friday issues’ commissioners, both terrestrial and digital. And a national conversation. evening with his MacTaggart Lecture. then there are the sessions – covering everything Elaine Bedell Advisory Chair So despite the odds, popular, quality television Plus, you’ll get a chance to decide who will be from the problems facing UK drama to how to is alive and kicking. And we want to celebrate the this year’s Channel of the Year in a live audience make money online, and video on demand to the very best programmes in Edinburgh, even whilst vote. So make sure you go along to support your future of public service broadcasting. we’re examining some of the more complex issues favourite channel at six o’clock on Saturday So it looks like being a rather brilliant Edinburgh. that surround them. So we have Jeremy Clarkson evening, where the very funny Michael McIntyre A thousand thanks go to Elaine Bedell and her and Top Gear, Peter Andre, Ant & Dec, Davina will be your host, and remember – every vote counts! Advisory Committee, and to Amy Brown and the McCall and stars of reality TV, Andy Hamilton and It promises to be an entertaining weekend. Festival team. I obviously could have done it Guy Jenkins from Outnumbered, all taking part in Elaine Bedell without them, but thank God I didn’t have to. a series of brilliant and creatively stimulating masterclasses. Enjoy Edinburgh 2009. Tim Hincks

02 03 Title & Major Sponsors Edinburgh International Television Festival would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support.

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ITV’s family technology ecosystem now world’s only major public service growth as more and more acclaimed as the most quoted www.mediaguardian.co.uk of digital channels is the most includes products such as broadcaster funded entirely by viewers tune in to its rich mix of market research company in successful in the UK – with ITV2 Windows, Internet Explorer, its own commercial activities. entertaining, diverse programmes. the UK and the most accurate and ITV3 the top two channels Xbox, the UK’s largest content Channel 4 commissions all its Every week over 30 million opinion pollster. YouGov’s full Major Sponsors and ITV4 not far behind. ITV.com portal MSN and the newly programmes from third parties viewers enjoy a broad range of service offering spans added is the online home of ITV. launched online search engine and has played the leading role programming including The Hotel value consultancy, syndicated ITV.com was re-launched in 2007 Bing. In addition, Microsoft in helping grow a vibrant Inspector, The Gadget Show, the research products, omnibus, and aims to enhance ITV provides a bank of support for community of UK independent CSI franchise, Neighbours and qualitative research and field viewers’ broadcast experience online communities and of all producers. The first broadcaster Extreme Fishing with Robson and tab services. YouGov is The BBC is the world’s best by offering innovative and time spent online in Britain, to put all of its archive online, Green. 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If you’re looking for Registration Coach Transfer Service Strathblane Hall, EICC A complimentary coach transfer service will old masters visit a gallery, All delegates must register and collect their be available to transport delegates on Friday badge on arrival at the Festival in the Strathblane 28 August 2009: Hall, EICC. Registration desks will be open at the EICC to McEwan Hall 18:15 )FYOURELOOKINGFORSTATE OF THE ART CALLUS following times: McEwan Hall to Our Dynamic Earth 19:45 Friday 28 August 09:00 – 18:00 Saturday 29 August 09:00 – 18:00 Sunday 30 August 09:00 – 15:30 Press Centre Fountain provides the UK’s largest, most flexible Your delegate pass allows you into all Festival Carrick Suite, EICC fully equipped television studio, combined with sessions, parties and receptions. You do not need The Press Centre, sponsored by Five, is open an outstanding operational team and first class to purchase any further passes or individual tickets. to all press accredited delegates daily between However admission to all sessions is on a first- support services. 09:00 – 19:00. For all press enquiries during the come, first-served basis on presentation of a valid Festival, please contact a member of the Taylor delegate badge. Please wear it to all sessions s 3PACEFROM TO SQFT Herring team, via the Press Centre. and events. There is a replacement fee of £25 s ($FULLYINTEGRATED for lost badges. Telephone +44 (0) 131 519 4121 ˆ2I[WSYRHWYMXI Sponsored by: s &LEXIBLEANDCOMPETITIVERATES s !UDIENCESFROM  Information Desk s /UTSTANDINGCATERINGANDHOSPITALITY Strathblane Hall, EICC The Information Desk is open for all Festival-related For more information: enquiries for the duration of the Festival. Edinburgh Travel Desk guides and maps, courtesy of Visit Scotland, are also available. Messages for delegates can be left The Festival’s preferred travel partners, Stanmore  and collected throughout the weekend. Business Travel Management, will be contactable Friday 28 August 12:00 – 18:00 throughout the weekend. ftv.co.uk Saturday 29 August 09:00 – 18:00 Telephone +44 (0) 20 8731 1333 Sunday 30 August 09:00 – 17:00

Festival Office Wireless Access Harris Suite, EICC Strathblane Hall, EICC To contact any of the Festival team while in Complimentary wireless internet is available Edinburgh please ask at the EICC reception to all delegates. Login details are: or the Festival Information Desk. Network name: eicc Telephone +44 (0) 131 519 4156 Username: edinburghfestival Facsimile +44 (0) 131 659 7735 Password: television2009

09 Festival Extras Free Clinics

Microsoft Live Lounge Festival Cafe MGEITF Personal and Business Accounting BUSINESS ADVICE Allan McEllvie Strathblane Hall, EICC Strathblane Hall, EICC CLINICS Partner, McKelvie and Co Join us in the Microsoft Live Lounge for a 360° Hungry? Thirsty? Make your way to the Delegate Lomond Foyer, EICC PR, Communication and Networking home entertainment experience. Combine TV, PC Cafe, located in the Strathblane Hall. Sandwiches, Friday 11:00 – 15:00 Peter Mountstevens and Adrian Lee and mobile phone fun with great shows on MSN, salads, snacks, hot and cold drinks are available This year more than ever businesses and Managing Partners, Taylor Herring Communications amazing games from Xbox and eye opening touch during Festival opening hours. freelancers need advice on how to survive the screen technology from Windows 7. Send emails, market and grow their company, or even set-up upload and share your videos and photos on the alone. We’re offering FREE drop in clinics for MGEITF web, and IM friends in comfort and style; all while Virgin Media Pedicabs delegates to get expert advice from practitioners DEVELOPMENT soaking up the atmosphere of the Festival, CLINICS on anything from expanding your client base, courtesy of Microsoft. Various locations, Edinburgh marketing and PR, corporate and financial strategy, No more fighting for expensive cabs or weary Mezzanine, EICC Sponsored by: life coaching and much more. walks to and from the EICC and the assortment of Saturday 09:00 – 17:00 drinking holes you will inevitably end up in…Virgin To book in for your one-to-one session drop in Even the most experienced creatives can get stuck Media Television and Virgin Media are once again to see what times are available. when they’ve been working on an idea for a while determined to make your Edinburgh as painless and don’t know where to take it next. In partnership Business and Life Coaching as possible so we’ve brought our rickshaws back. with Ignite, we are providing FREE clinics aimed at Sky 3D Lounge Alec McPhedran So let someone else get knackered while you giving you a fresh perspective to solve creative Managing Director, Skills Channel TV scoot around the city alfresco and ease your development questions like how to update an old Strathblane Hall, EICC eco-consciences. Commercial Contracts, Business Set-up and IP format or how to build new ideas around a piece of 3D TV will become a reality in 2010 when Sky (Scottish and English Law): talent, how to make your development resources launches the UK’s first 3D channel. For a taste of Sponsored by: Alex Innes go further. what the Evening Standard has described as “the Partner, Semple Fraser LLP future of TV”, come and experience 3D for yourself Come down to the Mezzanine level and book by visiting the Sky 3D Lounge in the EICC’s Corporate Strategy and Finance in with us for a FREE 30 minute consultation. Strathblane Hall. Mark Henshaw and Terry Back Partners, Grant Thornton Ignite are a creative development agency who use cutting edge Sponsored by: The Network Weekend innovation practices to give teams techniques for generating Workshop Live Performance and selling commercial content ideas. Their works spans the Customer Relationship Management, creation of successful mainstream UK and global entertainment Web and IT Management ideas for media (ITV, Fremantle, Channel 4, NBC, Fox and The Cromdale, EICC Stephanie Chamberlain Sky1) alongside ideation for major brands like Unilever and Reckitt Benckeiser. Sunday 11:30 – 12:45 Managing Director, Magic Milestones Bacaro Fizz Bar In less than 48 hours, The Network delegates will In partnership with: Digital Marketing, Networking and Web Build have devised, written, produced and filmed their Russell Stopford and Mayur Upadhyaya Strathblane Hall, EICC own TV programmes. Please come and join us as Managing Directors, Glow Labs Whether you’re toasting to a new commission they perform their work live for you. This is your or simply need a place to unwind between chance to see the TV talent of tomorrow in action. Distribution, Co-Production, Rights Management sessions, the Bacaro Fizz Bar will be on hand Patrick Palmer throughout the weekend to provide you with Director, Palmer Business Media the social lubricant of choice. Ideas for Running a Small Business With thanks to: Clare Thompson and Pamela Hamilton Joint Managing Directors, Ignite

10 11 Social Events Channel of the Year Awards

Friday Night Saturday Opening Reception Channel of the Year Awards

Our Dynamic Earth 112 Holyrood Road Edinburgh, EH8 8AS 20:00 – 23:00

The Pentland After the excitement of the first day of the Festival, Coaches and pedicabs will be waiting outside Edinburgh International join us at Dynamic Earth for the Friday Night the McEwan Hall after the MacTaggart Lecture Conference Centre Opening Reception. Grab a drink, take in the to transport you to the party, or if you fancy the 18:00 – 19:00 impressive views across Edinburgh, and catch exercise, follow the map on page 15 for a 20 up with friends, old and new. minute walk.

Sponsored by: Michael McIntyre hosts the gala ceremony which The following nominations were provided celebrates and rewards the industry choice by a YouGov online poll: for Channel of the Year. Join us to decide which Terrestrial Channel of the Year terrestrial and non-terrestrial channels will be BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, Five, ITV crowed the winners of this year’s MediaGuardian Saturday Night Edinburgh International Television Festival Channel Non-Terrestrial Channel of the Year of the Year. BBC Three, Dave, E4, FX, Sky1 Party For the first time ever, the winners of the Terrestrial Programme of the Year Bacaro prestigious awards will be decided by a live Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Top Gear, The Apprentice, 7–11 Hope Street Lane audience vote. Over 2,000 online voters have The IT Crowd, The X Factor Edinburgh, EH2 4EL shortlisted the nominees and now you must Non-Terrestrial Programme of the Year 21:30 – late chose the winners. Being Human, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Proud sponsors of the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Ross Kemp: Return to Afghanistan, Television Festival, IML are the world leaders in audience The Inbetweeners, The Wire This year’s Saturday Night Party has a new home response technology. Our innovative Communicator keypad – Bacaro, one of Edinburgh’s premium boutique allows everyone in an audience to have their say. The Network and Fast Track venues. Indulge in cocktails, dancing and a chance Programme Award 2009 Special thanks to: to catch up with some familiar faces. Beware Being Human, The Inbetweeners, The Wire though, we do have a limited capacity, so make sure you arrive early, as entry is not guaranteed.

Special thanks to:

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Ground Lomond Leith Foyer Castle Street Regent Road Square Waterloo Pl The Moorfoot & Kilsyth George Street North Bridge The Tinto Princes Street Edinburgh Moorfoot Bacaro Waverley Lomond Foyer Tinto & Kilsyth The Mound Station Scottish Parliament Business Advice Clinics Jeffery St South Bridge Strathblane Hall Princes Street Princes Market Street Our Street Dynamic Microsoft Live Lounge Gardens George IV Bridge Holyrood Road Earth Sky 3D Lounge Strathblane Hall Parliament House Bacaro Fizz Bar Lothian Road Edinburgh Castle Festival Cafe Cowgate Pleasance Information Desk Royal Museum of Cloakroom Scotland Holyrood Grassmarket EICC South Bridge Park Virgin Media Pedicabs Port Main Entrance Potterrow Morrison St Bread St West Morrison Street Lauriston Teviot Pl Mezzanine Lauriston Place Street McEwan Hall (Not pictured. Follow signs from Strathblane Hall) Fountain Bridge Development Clinics

George IV Bridge Details Level 1 Galloway Suite Holyrood RoadOur Edinburgh International Conference Centre Dynamic Press Office (EICC) Pleasance Earth Carrick Ochil Cowgate Festival Office The Exchange, Morrison Street Harris South Bridge Edinburgh EH3 8EE Chambers St Royal Museum of Museum Bristo Pl Scotland of Scotland McEwan Hall Level 3 Teviot Place Teviot Pl Edinburgh EH8 9AJ McEwan Hall The Pentland The Sidlaw Our Dynamic Earth You can follow this map from McEwan Hall to The Fintry Pentland 112 Holyrood Road Our Dynamic Earth on Friday evening. Walk time Edinburgh EH8 8AS is approximately 20 minutes.

Sidlaw Fintry Bacaro 7–11 Hope Street Lane Edinburgh EH2 4EL

Production Centre Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy 2a Merchiston Avenue Edinburgh EH10 4NU

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11:00 – 15:00 researchers, producers and executive producers will be competing to win your vote and decide once Business Advice Clinics and for all if TV’s Got Talent.

Executive Producer Ben Thursby Producer, Britain’s Got Talent Lomond Foyer, Ground Floor Producers Karl Warner Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Tanya Shaw Commissioning Editor, MGEITF Specialist Factual, Channel 4 BUSINESS ADVICE Assistant Producer David Martin Freelance Researcher CLINICS Hosts Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly Judges Amanda Holden, Jimmy Carr, Louis Walsh This year, more than ever, businesses and freelancers need advice on how to survive the market and grow their company, or even set-up 12:30 – 13:30 alone. We’ve provided drop in clinics for delegates to get advice from experts and practitioners on Meet the Controller: anything from expanding your client base, digital Angela Jain & Hamish MyKura marketing and PR, corporate and financial strategy, exploiting your rights to technology and web The Sidlaw management as well as personal and business accounting. Sponsored by: For the full list of experts, practitioners and areas covered, please turn to the Free Clinics section on page 11. To book in for your FREE (one-to-one) When he took over the reins just over a year ago session, drop in to the Lomond Foyer. Hamish Mykura promised MORE4 would “punch harder with more polemics and current affairs programming”. But with Come Dine with Me 12:00 – 13:30 repeats and Grand Designs marathons pulling in the channels highest viewing figures, has MORE4 TV’s Got Talent: become the TV equivalent of a guilty pleasure? Edinburgh Special E4 is on a roll, as its strategy to concentrate on fewer, bigger and better resourced commissions The Pentland has really started to pay off. Skins and The Inbetweeners continue to pull in awards and high Sponsored by: ratings and Charlie Brooker’s zombie gore-fest, Dead Set, trumpeted their commitment to genre- busting risk-taking TV. Can E4 keep up the momentum or will financial considerations temper Is Alan Yentob the next George Sampson? Will its ambitions? Andrew Newman rival Paul Potts? Presented by Ant & Dec and judged by Amanda Holden, Jimmy Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Carr and Louis Walsh, this year’s Festival kicks off Entertainment Commissioning, BBC with a live search for TV’s top ‘talent’ across the Producer Lucy Bacon Freelance Development Producer entire industry. Whether they be singers, dancers, Chair Boyd Hilton TV Editor, Heat Magazine Speakers Angela Jain Head of E4 jugglers, or Ferrero Rocher eaters – runners, Hamish MyKura Head of MORE4

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13:45 – 14:45 be here sooner than we think. This session looks 15:15 – 16:15 huge fortunes – through the internet advise TV at what would happen if the BBC was the UK’s only on how it needs to change to meet the future and To Pay or Not to Pay TV news provider. Can funding commercial TV David Simon: create a successful online business. news simply be fixed by top-slicing or would that Fuck the Casual Viewer actually kill commercial news? What impact would Producers David Flynn Managing Director, Brighter Pictures Matt Locke Commissioning Editor Education, Channel 4 The Pentland a news monopoly have on democracy? How can The Pentland Chair Charlie Leadbeater Author, We-think: The Power of a BBC-exclusive future be delayed or avoided? Mass Creativity Panellists Dan Hon Co-founder and CEO, Six to Start It’s the burning issue of the moment – to pay or not The panel will look at editorial distinction, potential Kristian Segerstråle Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, to pay. Salaries are under the spotlight like never funding models, current resources and regional Playfish Patrick Walker Director of Video Partnerships (EMEA), before. As programme budgets are slashed, news provision. Google Peter Bazalgette Investor and Non-Executive Director, My Video Rights services cut and thousands of people handed their P45s, what’s the right price for talent? From Producers Dan Faulks Press and PR Manager, ITN News Creator of The Wire, David Simon won widespread Deborah Turness Editor, ITV News Jonathan Ross’s millions to the salaries of TV’s top Chair Julie Etchingham Journalist critical acclaim for his uncompromising portrayals executives, we’ve been talking telephone numbers. Panellists Chris Birkett Executive Editor, Sky News of inner city America. Discussing his early career as 15:15 – 16:15 David Mannion Editor in Chief, ITV News Suddenly it all seems like fair game for scrutiny. Dorothy Byrne Head of News and Current Affairs, Channel 4 a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Simon will reveal Is this just another sign of the recession biting? Helen Boaden Director, BBC News how his first hand experiences have shaped his Meet the Controller: Or is the pay gap between the top and bottom now Michael Jermey Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport, ITV subsequent work including Homicide: Life on the Richard Woolfe wider than ever? Could this mark a turning point in Street, Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner and talent pay and where will it all end? more recently Generation Kill in which he adapted The Sidlaw 13:45 – 14:45 the experiences of another journalist. Talking about Producer David Kermode Editor, Five News upcoming projects, he will also discuss the role of Chair Nicky Campbell Broadcaster Sponsored by: Speakers Ed Vaizey MP Shadow Minister for Culture Meet the Controller: the media, the breakdown of urban society and Graham Stuart Company Director, So Television his relationship with the viewers. Jana Bennett Director, BBC Vision Janice Hadlow Kevin Lygo Director of Television and Content, Channel 4 Producers Iain Dodgeon Creative Executive, STV Peter Fincham Director of Television, Channels and Online, ITV New controller. New commissioning team. New The Sidlaw Paul Murray Head of Entertainment and Factual, STV Chair Charlie Brooker Writer and Presenter vision and strategy. Amid talks of a merger with Speaker David Simon Creator, The Wire Channel 4 and deep crunch-induced cutbacks at Sponsored by: HQ, Richard Woolfe has moved swiftly to appoint 13:45 – 14:45 a head of factual, a head of production, and after a That Was the News That Was 15:15 – 16:15 five year gap, a head of entertainment. Trisha’s With just under a year in the job as controller of gone, CSI’s still their biggest ratings success and BBC Two, we’ll look at how Janice Hadlow has How to Make Money Online comedy drama remake Minder – which delivered Five’s best ever figures for an original drama – has The Fintry made her mark on the channel. As some of the channel’s most successful shows migrate to BBC been axed. So what is the Five story, and who do Sponsored by: One, the need for returnable channel defining The Fintry they want to help tell it? brands is at the top of BBC Two’s agenda. Is this Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment migration a disadvantage to the channel? Or does They’re the brash entrepreneurs who claim to have Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, this actually offer greater opportunities to the internet cracked. They’re connecting to their Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Producer James Marshall Freelance Development Producer In the year that Sky News celebrates 20 years on producers and commissioners to serve a broader audience in new ways, changing the way we Chair Richard Bacon Presenter BBC Five Live air, ITV News collects a BAFTA, Channel 4 News BBC Two audience? consume content and interact, but how are they Speaker Richard Woolfe Controller, Five continues to break exclusives, and Natasha actually making money, and what can TV companies Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Kaplinsky returns to Five News – all may seem rosy Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, learn from them? Four leading entrepreneurs who to viewers, but pressures on commercial Entertainment Commissioning, BBC have built huge audiences – and in some cases Producer Jon Petrie Talent Producer, Roughcut TV broadcasters mean that exclusive BBC News could Chair Kirsty Wark Television Journalist and Broadcaster Speaker Janice Hadlow Controller, BBC Two

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15:15 – 16:15 16:45 – 17:45 the challenges, thrills and spills of launching a new 16:45 – 17:45 series. What are the elements of a hit show and The Money Shot Top Gear: how do you sustain the audience after the launch Ofcom-edy A Masterclass episode? Does the recession mean fewer risks are being taken, how do you make content for less The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Pentland money and is the US model a better one? This The Moorfoot & Kilsyth session will debate all these issues, and more. Sponsored by: Producer Ben Stephenson Controller Drama Commissioning, BBC Chair Stephen Armstrong Freelance Journalist Panellists Adrian Hodges writer, Primevil and Survivors Gareth Neame Managing Director, Carnival Films As Jonathan Ross recently realised, it has never Advertiser funded programming has come of age How did Top Gear go from being a show for car Kate Harwood Controller Series and Serial, BBC whilst the product placement debate rages on. nerds to a mainstream entertainment show loved Drama Production been easier for Joe Public to complain. At the click Technological advances and the economic climate by both men and women? Consistently BBC Two’s Laura Mackie Director of Drama, ITV of a mouse, a complaint can be pinged off to the Toby Whithouse writer, Being Human have forced broadcasters and advertisers to re- highest-rating programme, with a bevy of awards Director General and, if enough complaints come think their relationship commercially and creatively. under its belt, other producers would kill for its in, major editorial decisions are influenced. What are the exciting new opportunities for viewing figures – so what’s their secret? Is the Unsurprisingly, comedy is fielding unfriendly fire for programme makers, channels and brands and is format set in stone, or is there room for it to 16:45 – 17:45 taste and decency. With these battle lines drawn government policy standing in the way of much develop? How do they come up with the challenges up, we introduce our own Ofcom committee of needed cash injection? and how do they get round BBC Health and Meet the Controller: comedians. Looking back at some familiar and less Safety? Who really is The Stig? This masterclass Julian Bellamy familiar comedic complaints we wonder how things Producers James Herring Joint Managing Director, Taylor will reveal all you need to know about Top Gear, would have turned out if only they had been there Herring Communications Joe Mace Head of Format Entertainment Development, BBC and more. The Sidlaw to sprinkle a bit of sanity. Chair Claire Enders Founder and Chief Executive, Enders Analysis Producer Lucy Tallon Artist Liaison Officer, Comic Relief Producers Heather Jones Director of Television, Music Panellists Cody Hogarth Managing Director, Chair Kate Silverton Journalist and Presenter Sponsored by: and Comedy, MTVN UK Gareth Rees Commercial Director, New State, Endemol Speakers Andy Wilman Executive Producer, Top Gear Boomerang + PLC Ed Vaizey MP Shadow Minister for Culture Jeremy Clarkson Chair Stuart Cosgrove Director, Nations and Regions, Mark Eaves Managing Director, Drum Channel 4 Sally Quick Head of Commercial Partnerships, UKTV Panellists Frank Skinner, Jo Caulfied, Lucy Porter, Is it the best of times or the worst of times? With a Rob Deering 16:45 – 17:45 bulging awards cabinet and a diminishing budget, how will Channel 4 continue to deliver big hitting How to Make a Hit commercial successes in the wake of a 12% cut in programme spending? Will the need for high ratings Drama Series lead to a dependence on returning formats or can The Fintry the channel still afford to take creative risks? How will Channel 4 juggle this with its public service Sponsored by: remit and what does it really want from indies now?

Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Producer Ayan Ali Freelance Assistant Producer What does it take to make a hit drama? Is it luck, Chair Nicky Campbell Broadcaster alchemy or design? The creatives behind such Speaker Julian Bellamy Head of Channel 4 popular shows as Being Human, Primeval, Law and Order: UK, Hotel Babylon and Survivors discuss

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18:45 – 20:00 20:00 – 23:00 The James MacTaggart Friday Night Memorial Lecture: Opening Reception James Murdoch Our Dynamic Earth

McEwan Hall Sponsored by: Teviot Place

The first day of the Festival doesn’t end with the Record SD James Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive, MacTaggart Lecture. Join us at Our Dynamic Earth Europe and Asia, News Corporation, and Chairman for the Friday Night Reception. Grab a drink, catch Record HD of BSkyB, will deliver the 2009 MacTaggart Lecture. up with friends and discuss the poignant issues James has a unique perspective on the media of the day, as well as your favourite act from industry, having run television, publishing and TV’s Got Talent! Play digital businesses worldwide. Despite the tough Liberty Bell/JolyGood TV for Sky Arts HD economic climate BSkyB has, under his leadership, accelerated its rate of growth and increased its Coaches and pedicabs will be waiting outside The Hospital Club Studios are 5 and commitment to investing in programming. In this McEwan Hall after the MacTaggart Lecture we’re still all about flexibility. As the first year’s lecture he will explore the way forward at this to transport you to the party, or if you fancy multi-camera HD studio in Europe, it’s crucial moment for the industry – for producers, the exercise, follow the map on page 15 for regulators and, most importantly, consumers. a 20 minute walk. perfect for all your live or pre-recorded productions, boasting HD, SD and Producer Peter Barron Head of Communications and Public Affairs, UK and Ireland, Google multi-track music recording capability, Speaker James Murdoch Chairman and Chief Executive, Europe and Asia, News Corporation and Chairman of BSkyB luxury green rooms, dressing rooms, make-up facilities and production offices. With 250sq m of studio space From the Basement Maguffin/Sky Arts HD Coaches and pedicabs will be waiting outside the to play with, and a convenient club EICC to transport you to McEwan Hall from 18:15. location in the heart of Covent Garden, you’ll also find our hospitality as impressive as the studios themselves.

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Friday 18:45 – 20:00 The James MacTaggart 12:30 – 13:30 The Richard Dunn Memorial 18:00 – 19:00 Channel of the Year Awards Memorial Lecture: Lecture: Robert Peston 2009 James Murdoch The Pentland The Pentland 11:00 – 15:00 Business Advice Clinics McEwan Hall, Teviot Place Lomond Foyer, Ground Floor Peter Andre: 21:30 – late Saturday Night 20:00 – 23:00 Friday Night The Next Chapter Party 12:00 – 13:30 TV’s Got Talent: Opening Reception The Fintry Bacaro, 7–11 Hope Street Lane Edinburgh Special Our Dynamic Earth Screening: Flash Forward The Pentland The Sidlaw 12:30 – 13:30 Meet the Controller: SOS: Save Our Sector Angela Jain & Hamish MyKura The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Sidlaw Sunday Saturday 14:00 – 15:30 PSB: The Insider’s Guide 13:45 – 14:45 To Pay or Not to Pay The Pentland The Pentland 10:00 – 11:00 Media Talk 14:00 – 15:00 The Futureview Address: The Pentland That Was the News that Was 09:00 – 17:00 Development Clinics Ashley Highfield The Fintry Mezzanine The Truth About On Demand: The Fintry New Media Myths Debunked Meet the Controller: 09:30 – 10:30 Post MacTaggart Q&A with Meet the Controller: The Fintry Janice Hadlow James Murdoch Stuart Murphy The Sidlaw The Pentland Meet the Controller: The Sidlaw Matthew Littleford 15:15 – 16:15 David Simon: Facing the Music: The Sidlaw What Can TV Learn from the Welcome to the Dark Side Fuck the Casual Viewer The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Pentland Music Industry’s Mistakes Kids at the Cutting Edge The Fintry 15:30 – 16:30 Ross Kemp: A Masterclass The Moorfoot & Kilsyth How to Make Money Online The Fintry The Fintry Meet the Controller: Jay Hunt 11:30 – 12:30 Duty of Care The Sidlaw Meet the Controller: The Pentland Meet the Controller: Claudia Rosencrantz Richard Woolfe Pitch Perfect: New Best Friends: The Sidlaw The Sidlaw Fast Track Live Pitch Brands and Documentaries The Moorfoot & Kilsyth Is Compliance Restricting The Fintry The Money Shot Creativity? The Moorfoot & Kilsyth 11:00 – 12:00 The Alternative MacTaggart: Meet the Controller: The Moorfoot & Kilsyth Ant & Dec in Conversation Richard Klein 16:45 – 17:45 Top Gear: A Masterclass The Pentland 16:45 – 17:45 Meet the Controller: The Sidlaw The Pentland Peter Fincham Ed Richards in Conversation 13:00 – 14:00 TV and Politics: The Sidlaw How to Make a Hit with Peter Fincham Can the Spin Cycle Come Drama Series The Fintry 17:00 – 18:00 The Worldview Address: to an End? The Fintry The Pentland Meet the Controller: Gerhard Zeiler Meet the Controller: Zai Bennett The Fintry Andy Hamilton Julian Bellamy The Sidlaw Surviving Reality TV and Guy Jenkin: The Sidlaw 30 Years of Polluting Whose Archive is it Anyway? The Moorfoot & Kilsyth the Airwaves Ofcom-edy The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Fintry

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09:30 – 10:30 09:30 – 10:30 Post MacTaggart Q&A with Meet the Controller: James Murdoch Jay Hunt

The Pentland The Sidlaw

Following his MacTaggart Lecture, James Murdoch Sponsored by: is interviewed about his speech and responds to questions from Festival delegates.

Producer Peter Barron Head of Communications and Public It’s the channel that’s rarely been out of the Affairs, UK and Ireland, Google Chair Peter Bazalgette Investor and Non-Executive Director, headlines over the past year – from the ratings My Video Rights success of established titles such as The Speaker James Murdoch Chairman and Chief Executive, Europe and Asia, News Corporation and Chairman of BSkyB Apprentice and Dr. Who to high profile new arrivals like Formula One, as well as the audience outcry over John Sergeant’s early departure on Strictly Come Dancing. But how will the channel be 09:30 – 10:30 affected by plans for efficiency savings across the BBC, and can it strike the right balance when it Facing the Music: comes to taste and standards? Controller Jay Hunt What Can TV Learn from the sums up 12 months in the hottest seat in TV and Music Industry’s Mistakes her plans to extend the channel’s appeal to younger audiences, the future BBC One heartland. The Fintry Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, The music industry has felt the full force of digital Entertainment Commissioning, BBC disruption for over a decade now, with recorded Producer Kate Dooley Assistant Producer, talkbackTHAMES Chair Martha Kearney Writer and Broadcaster music now worth less than when Napster was Speaker Jay Hunt Controller, BBC One launched back in 1999. A lot has happened since, with file hosting overtaking file sharing, live overtaking recorded and a shift of focus on licensing businesses like Spotify as opposed to selling directly to the consumer. Television has often been an armchair critic of these developments; yet with its most valued intellectual property of Sky premiership football now freely available on Bit Torrent, now is the time to learn the lessons before it’s too late.

Producers Peter Cowley Managing Director of Digital Media, Endemol UK Simon Phillips Factual Programmes, ITV Chair Rory Cellan-Jones Technology Correspondent, BBC News Panellists Eric Garland Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, BigChampagne Peter Jenner President Emeritus, International Music Managers Forum Will Page Chief Economist, PRS for Music

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09:30 – 10:30 revealing insight into their hugely successful 11:00 – 12:00 vaults and the fact it is all about to be released. partnership. In their first ever appearance at the Who’s got the keys and who will benefit? Pitch Perfect: Festival, they will reflect on their move from Meet the Controller: A distinguished panel including Roly Keating, Fast Track Live Pitch children’s TV to award-winning hosts of prime time Zai Bennett the Director of Archive Content for the BBC entertainment including their creative processes, discusses the future of the past exclusively The Moorfoot & Kilsyth their production company and business decisions, The Sidlaw at this year’s Festival. and their relationship on and off-screen. Producer Graham Stuart Company Director, So Television Producer Sumi Connock Head of Entertainment, ITV Studios Sponsored by: Chair Emily Bell Director of Digital Content, Guardian News Chair Mark Austin Newscaster, ITV News and Media Speakers Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly Panellists Ben McOwen Wilson Director of Online Content, ITV Roly Keating Director of Archive Content, BBC Patrick Walker Director of Video Partnerships (EMEA), Google Pitching is one of the toughest and most important Meet ITV’s new Director of Digital Channels and skills to perfect in TV. Forty Fast Track delegates Acquisitions, Zai Bennett. With ITV2 the country’s 11:00 – 12:00 have submitted a proposal to UKTV in response top-rating multichannel service, how will the to a brief to create a series of comedy shorts for advertising downturn affect Zai’s strategy for next 12:30 – 13:30 Dave. The finalists have been given the opportunity Ed Richards in Conversation year? Hits such as Katie and Peter and Secret to work up their idea and will pitch it to the with Peter Fincham Diary of A Call Girl have helped define the channel The Richard Dunn Memorial commissioners in front of an industry audience. but will the focus now shift to more acquisitions Lecture: Robert Peston The Fintry The winning pitch will be decided upon in the room and ITV1 spin offs ahead of originations? And how and the lucky delegate will walk away with a £15K can the ITV3 and ITV4 brands remain distinctive in The Pentland commission and the chance to Fast Track their a multiplatform world of ‘on demand’ and repeats? career to the next level. Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Producer Jason Mitchell Development Producer, Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Maverick Television In last year’s MacTaggart Peter Fincham took no Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Chair Russell Kane Comedian Producer Mark Taynton Scheduler, Good Food, UKTV Panellists Lisa Perrin Director of Commissioning, prisoners; he told us that Ofcom was out of touch Chair Jane Martinson Editor, MediaGuardian He’s had a string of financial scoops – and a clutch Entertainment, UKTV Steve North Channel Head, Dave and warned that over-regulation could ‘kill Speaker Zai Bennett Director of Digital Channels and Acquisitions, ITV of broadcasting awards to follow. But some of television’. So who better to take Britain’s media Robert Peston’s critics say he’s less of a journalist regulator to task? Ed Richards, Chief Executive than a player. Still more of them have cringed at his since 2006, is overseeing Ofcom’s strategy for the 11:00 – 12:00 unique rhetorical style. Whatever your view, he’s future of public service broadcasting and 11:00 – 12:00 been the must-watch, must-read financial journalist Broadband Britain. Expect a lively debate on where The Alternative MacTaggart: Whose Archive is it Anyway? of the last year. Now he’s in Edinburgh with his Ant & Dec in Conversation TV is heading. views on business, the banks and broadcasting. Did television play a part in fuelling the credit frenzy? Producer David Kermode Editor, Five News The Pentland Chair Peter Fincham Director of Television, Channels And what happens when financial chiefs read your and Online, ITV The Moorfoot & Kilsyth blog before breakfast, and a journalist becomes Sponsored by: Speaker Ed Richards Chief Executive, Ofcom known as the man who moves markets? Robert Archive management used to be two of the dullest Peston gives the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture, words in the industry but in 2009 they have and Krishnan Guru-Murthy leads the questions. become the most potent name to drop for execs. There is a growing realisation of the value and Producer Amanda Bruckshaw Deputy UK News Editor, Following the phenomenal success of Britain’s Got importance of the content locked in the digital BBC News Talent and ahead of their return to the jungle for the Chair Krishnan Guru-Murthy Newscaster, Channel 4 News ninth series of I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Speaker Robert Peston BBC Business Editor Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly give a

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12:30 – 13:30 given a glimpse into its near future, and every man, 14:00 – 15:30 14:00 – 15:00 woman and child is forced to come to grips with Peter Andre: whether their destinies can be avoided or fulfilled. PSB: The Insider’s Guide The Futureview Address: The Next Chapter Staring Joseph Fiennes and executive produced by Ashley Highfield David S. Goyer (co-writer Batman Begins and The The Fintry Dark Knight) and Brannon Braga (24, Star Trek: The Pentland The Fintry Enterprise), Flash Forward invites you to embark Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Sponsored by: on a journey to answer the question – if you knew what your future held, what would you do? Screening on Five. Never in their history have all the UK’s public Peter Andre and Neville Hendricks, Executive service broadcasters faced the prospect of such The internet will bring about huge changes to the Producer of Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter dramatic upheaval and such unenviable choices. TV landscape, and not just distribution. Internet Stateside will be offering their insight into the 12:30 – 13:30 The publication of the government’s Digital Britain models could be used to collaboratively making of the popular fly-on-the-wall reality series. Report has, if anything, increased the uncertainty commission; to peer recommend rather than What is it like to have your life filmed for a reality SOS: Save Our Sector and insecurity in the public sector. The BBC has schedule programmes; to auction and target TV programme, and where do you draw the line been unable to deflect top-slicing and contestable advertising; to clear archives and to reduce costs. between public and private? This masterclass will funding entirely and knows that, for the first time, it As long as TV adapts to the new realties then it look at the importance of matching the crew with The Moorfoot & Kilsyth will have to share a proportion of its license fee. can not just survive, but thrive. Ashley explores the talent, the impact of being filmed 24/7 and ITV may have the satisfaction of knowing that some how the internet will save TV. where the franchise will go from here. Sponsored by: of that license fee will now go to funding some ITV regional news pilots but not much else. Channel 4 Producer Peter Cowley Managing Director of Digital Media, Endemol UK Producer Claire Zolkwer Commissioning Editor has been left to try to navigate its own way to Entertainment, ITV Digital Channels Chair Emily Bell Director of Digital Content, Guardian Chair Boyd Hilton TV Editor, Heat Magazine How is the economic downturn affecting our some kind of agreement with BBC Worldwide over News and Media Speaker Ashley Highfield Managing Director and Vice Speakers Peter Andre industry? Does our indie sector need to send out shared resources. Channel Five has been left out Neville Hendricks Executive Producer, Katie & Peter President, Consumer and Online, Microsoft UK an SOS or do we just need to change the way we in the cold. The only real winner from Digital Britain do things? We’ve put the indies, broadcasters, and is Ofcom, which has seen an extraordinary and unions together to shed light on the recession and unprecedented extension in its powers. 12:30 – 13:30 find out what it means for you and for the industry. With such an inconclusive set of recommendations, Screening: Producers Helen Veale Creative Director, Outline Productions there seems nothing to halt the inexorable reduction Kate Ward Vice President, Shine Network in programme budgets and a general decrease Flash Forward Chair Kirsty Wark Television Journalist and Broadcaster Panellists Alex Mahon President, Shine Group Andy Duncan in business for the UK broadcasting sector as a The Sidlaw Chief Executive, Channel 4 Bal Samra Director of BBC Vision whole. With the help of key figures in all the public Operations and Rights John McVay Chief Executive, Pact Helen Veale Creative Director, Outline Productions service broadcasters, this session will give their views on our industry’s future and explain how we’re all to survive within it.

Producers Dan Korn Senior Vice President and Head of Programming, Discovery UK Sarah Farley Head of Corporate What if you saw your future 6 months from now? Communications, Discovery UK and EMEA Would you look forward to what was coming...or Film Producer Steve Hewlett Writer, Broadcaster and Media Consultant would you try to stop it? When a mysterious event Chair Peter Barron Head of Communications and Public causes the entire world to black out, humanity is Affairs, UK and Ireland, Google Panellists Andy Duncan Chief Executive, Channel 4 Caroline Thomson Chief Operating Officer, BBC Dawn Airey Chief Executive, Five John Cresswell Chief Operating Officer, ITV

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14:00 – 15:00 in serious times so what should be the role of 15:30 – 16:30 their bottle when it comes to being prepared to documentaries in such a climate? Is it to reflect fight the flack that can come with innovative Meet the Controller: the mood with dark and edgier programming or Meet the Controller: programming. Or are programme makers having Stuart Murphy is it to give weary viewers some light respite from Claudia Rosencrantz to become more responsible? the world outside their window? The Sidlaw The Sidlaw Producers Duncan Hess Freelance Producer and Director Producer and Chair Sarfraz Manzoor Writer and Broadcaster Michele Kurland Executive Producer, The Apprentice and Panellists Adam Curtis Documentary Filmmaker Head of Factual Entertainment, talkbackTHAMES Hamish Mykura Head of Documentaries, Channel 4 Chair Adrian Chiles Broadcaster Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Harry Lansdown Commissioning Editor BBC Three, Features, Panellists Frank Skinner, Jana Bennett Director, BBC Vision Formats and Specialist Factual Jan Tomalin Media Lawyer, Media Law Consultancy Limited Paul Hamann Creative Director, Wild Pictures Jimmy Mulville Managing Director, Hat Trick Productions Ray Snoddy Journalist In his first year, new Sky1 Director of Programming, Virgin Media Television’s Director of Television made Stuart Murphy is looking to consolidate the channel the news herself this Spring, with the decision to 15:30 – 16:30 as it enters its third decade. His wish list includes: continue working with LIVING’s popular reality 16:45 – 17:45 big entertainment formats, shows building on Sky’s TV personality Jade Goody following her cancer strong sports reputation, feature documentaries Ross Kemp: diagnosis. The series delivered record ratings to Meet the Controller: and comedy. But in a year where the terrestrials A Masterclass LIVING. So what’s next for the high profile pay TV Peter Fincham are also ramping up factual, can Sky1 cut through? channel, along with its stable mates, ranging from The Fintry What will be the next drama to follow in the the broad based Virgin1 to action packed Lads TV The Sidlaw footsteps of big hitters like Skellig and Terry Bravo and game show-based Challenge? Pratchett’s Hogfather and how is he going to lure the big names to Sky1? Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Sponsored by: Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Producer Ayan Ali Freelance Assistant Producer Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Part “how to” and part retrospective, this Chair Maggie Brown Journalist Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Speaker Claudia Rosencrantz They said it could never happen again in the multi- masterclass will look at how Ross Kemp Director of Television, Virgin TV Producer Mark Taynton Scheduler: Good Food, UKTV channel world. And then the Britain’s Got Talent final Chair Richard Bacon Presenter, BBC Five Live revolutionised the format of author-driven factual Speaker Stuart Murphy pulled in 19 million viewers. ITV’s been telling Director of Programming, Sky 1 HD, entertainment with Ross Kemp in Afghanistan. Sky 1, 2 and 3 viewers it’s the cheeriest channel with its bright new The session will seek to understand how Kemp 15:30 – 16:30 strap lines and its entertainment shows are pulling went about gaining the trust and confidence of the in record-breaking audiences, with soaps and new Ministry of Defence, the officers and the soldiers Is Compliance Restricting dramas rating well. But a dire TV ad market has 14:00 – 15:00 themselves to provide a revealing expose into what Creativity? forced deep budget, programme and staff cuts. life is actually like for soldiers fighting on the So how is Controller Peter Fincham juggling the Welcome to the Dark Side ground in Afghanistan. It will ask why Ross felt the The Moorfoot & Kilsyth creative challenges with swingeing cost cutting? soldiers trusted him – was it simply because he wasn’t a journalist? Was it instead because he was Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment The Moorfoot & Kilsyth a household name? Or was it simply because he Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Sponsored by: put his life and the lives of the camera crew at risk Producers Kate Dooley Assistant Producer, talkbackTHAMES by reporting directly from the front line? Nicola Martin Producer, Decisive Media Has compliance become the enemy within? Many Chair Pat Younge President and General Manager, Travel Channel Media (USA) Producers Andrew O’Connell Head of Factual, Five programme makers are claiming overzealous Mark Aldridge Head of Sky Movies Production, BSkyB Speaker Peter Fincham Director of Television, Channels and Chair Martha Kearney Writer and Broadcaster compliance is killing creativity. But is it? And if so Online, ITV The economy plunges towards recession; a flu Speaker Ross Kemp why now? The guidelines remain unchanged and pandemic threatens to leave hundreds of are meant to be there to help us, so are they being thousands dead and the war in Afghanistan interpreted properly? Have commissioners lost continues to claim British lives. We are living

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17:00 – 18:00 17:00 – 18:00 18:00 – 19:00 21:30 – late The Worldview Address: Surviving Reality TV Channel of the Year Awards Saturday Night Gerhard Zeiler Party

The Fintry The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Pentland Bacaro 7–11 Hope Street Lane Edinburgh EH2 4EL

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Gerhard Zeiler is Chief Executive Officer of RTL In the 10 years since Big Brother first hit our Join Michael McIntyre for the prestigious Channel Group, one of the world’s largest international screens it has helped shape the TV landscape, of the Year Awards and for the first time ever, you entertainment networks. Zeiler sees great content spawning other reality formats from The Apprentice will decide by a live audience vote. Over 2,000 This year’s Saturday Night Party has a new home and strong brands as the key to success in today’s to I’m a Celebrity. The last decade has also seen online voters have shortlisted the nominees and – Bacaro, one of Edinburgh’s premium venues. broadcasting industry. New ways of distribution – a massive rise in event TV starting with Pop Stars, it’s up to you to choose the winners. Indulge in cocktails, dancing and a chance to catch online, mobile, linear or on-demand – need exciting ending up with The X Factor and Britain’s Got up with some familiar faces. Beware though, we must-see content to justify their existence. TV Talent. Davina McCall will be joined by a panel of The following nominations were provided by do have a limited capacity, so make sure you arrive touches our emotions: “There’s an amazing amount true experts on reality TV – the participants. They a YouGov online poll: early, as entry is not guaranteed. of feeling involved in television. If you strike the will join her to discuss the impact their programmes www.bacaro-edinburgh.com Terrestrial Channel of the Year right note, you don’t just reach viewers, you have had on the cultural landscape over the last BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, Five, ITV genuinely move and captivate them. You win them decade. They’ll look at everything from the rise of over to your content. That’s why I think television reality TV, and the nature of fame to the impact the Non-Terrestrial Channel of the Year is the most complete medium.” In his must-see shows have had on their own lives – getting under BBC Three, Dave, E4, FX, Sky1 keynote speech Gerhard Zeiler will seek to move the skin of what it means to be on TV. Terrestrial Programme of the Year and captivate Edinburgh delegates as he explains Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Top Gear, The Apprentice, why he’s certain that TV will remain the leading Producer Phil Edgar Jones Creative Director, Brighter Pictures Chair Davina McCall The IT Crowd, The X Factor medium and sets out his view of TV’s global future. Panellists Anna Nolan Contestant Big Brother 1 Boyd Hilton TV Editor, Heat Magazine Christopher Biggins, Non-Terrestrial Programme of the Year Producer Ben Adler Director of Group Development, Optomen Jonathan Shalit Managing Director, Shalit Global Being Human, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Chair David Liddiment BBC Trustee and Creative Director, Raef Bjayou Contestant, The Apprentice All3Media Ross Kemp: Return to Afghanistan, Speaker Gerhard Zeiler Chief Executive Officer, RTL group The Inbetweeners, The Wire The Network and Fast Track Programme Award 2009 Being Human, The Inbetweeners, The Wire

Producers Karen Smith Joint Managing Director, Shine TV Lisa Perrin Director of Commissioning, Entertainment, UKTV Assistant Producer Kam Kandola Editorial Producer, Edinburgh International Television Festival Host Michael McIntyre Judging Panel Chair Tim Hincks Chief Executive Officer, Endemol UK Judging Panel MGEITF Executive Committee

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10:00 – 11:00 of television. A panel of industry experts examines new BBC analysis, compiled exclusively for Media Talk MGEITF to sort the hard facts from the hard sell.

Producer Ayesha Mohideen Head of Knowledge Multiplatform Commissioning, BBC The Pentland Chair Evan Davis Journalist and Presenter Panellists Ben McOwen Wilson Director of Online Content, ITV Griffin Parry Director, BSKYB on Demand Johannes Larcher Sponsored by: Senior Vice President of International, Hulu Mathew Horsman Joint Managing Director, Mediatique Ltd Simon Nelson Controller of Multiplatform and Portfolio, BBC Vision

Welcome to a special Edinburgh version of The Guardian’s weekly podcast on all things media. 10:00 – 11:00 Matt Wells and guests bring you the latest news and gossip from the TV Festival picking up on the Meet the Controller: main talking points of the weekend, with key Matthew Littleford commentators. Including the best highlights from earlier sessions, this is essential catch-up viewing The Sidlaw and a round-up of the main themes and the best of the Festival. Sponsored by: Producer Russell Stopford Managing Director, Met Film Creative and Met Film Post Chair Matt Wells Head of Audio, Guardian and Presenter, Media Talk This year the UKTV network has been busy rebranding its portfolio of 10 channels and attracting high profile coverage in the press. Previous 10:00 – 11:00 criticisms of the reliance on repeats of old shows have been countered by a raft of original The Truth About On Demand: programming, but is this set to continue in the New Media Myths Debunked current climate and if so what are the areas UKTV channels are looking to commission in? Controller The Fintry Matthew Littleford also discusses the completed rebranding and shift in audiences for UKTV channels. TV on demand: everybody wants it, everybody’s doing it and it’s the death of TV as we know it. Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Or is it? We lift the lid on iPlayer 18 months after its Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning, BBC launch and examine other on demand platforms to Producer Jon Petrie Talent Producer, Roughcut TV reveal what audiences are really doing with their Chair Boyd Hilton TV Editor, Heat Magazine Speaker Matthew Littleford Controller, UKTV new found power – and what it means for the future

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10:00 – 11:00 11:30 - 12:30 Peace at Cannes and the Co-operative are backing 13:00 – 14:00 Burma VJ, whilst Coke commissioned a surfing Kids at the Cutting Edge Duty of Care documentary, The Power of Three, to promote their TV and Politics: Can the Relentless brand. This panel looks at some of these Spin Cycle Come to an End? early case studies as well as exploring the wider The Moorfoot & Kilsyth The Pentland themes that are bringing brands and documentary The Pentland together. The public tears and private tantrums of Britain’s Got Talent’s Hollie Steel and Susan Boyle became Producer and Chair Jess Search Chief Executive, Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation the TV story of the year, leading to a public backlash Panellists Heide Cohu Communications Director, Red Bull and an outpouring of media mea culpa. In view of Michael Fairclough Head of Community and Campaigns, Kids and teens are way ahead in their media use. the government’s upcoming public consultation on Co-operative Quentin Clark Central Buyer, Waitrose Tony Blair described the media as “a feral beast, They’re platform agnostics, who interact, share and the use of children on television, our panel debate just tearing people and reputations to bits”, and TV reshape content with ease. And in five and ten the responsibilities that broadcasters and reporters and editors complain about interference years time – they’ll be the mainstream audience. producers have to participants in entertainment 11:30 - 12:30 from political spin doctors. Are politicians and the In this session we will cross-examine four new and and factual entertainment formats – and what the media two warring factions who will never be amazing interactive and cross-platform projects safeguards and regulations should be. Meet the Controller: reconciled, or are they sometimes too close to to explore how audience relationships, production Richard Klein each other to be objective? In the last MGEITF techniques and distribution thinking must change Producer Martin Cunning Freelance Executive before the next election we bring the two sides Chair Evan Davis Journalist and Presenter to match this audience on the move. How does this Panellists Daisy Goodwin Head Girl, Silver River The Sidlaw together to ask how the world of political reporting affect our business and creative choices? Ask the David Wilson Professor of Criminology, Birmingham City can be improved before, during or after the next kids – they’re already there. University Laura Mansfield Joint Managing Director and Chief election, and show how the Freedom of Information Operating Officer, Outline Productions Sara Geater Chief Sponsored by: Operating Officer, talkbackTHAMES Act is already making an impact. In association with Showcomotion Children’s Media Conference. Producers Kevin Sutcliffe Deputy Head News and Current Affairs, Channel 4 Marc Sigsworth Freelance Series Producer Five years ago BBC Four was criticised for being 11:30 – 12:30 and Director Producer Greg Childs Director, Childseye Cross-media “marginal and watched by a tiny number of Chair Adam Boulton Political Editor, Sky News Consulting Panellists Heather Brooke Freedom of Information Chair Roy Ackerman Managing Director, New Best Friends: viewers”, with one industry insider stating “It won’t Campaigner and Journalist Lance Price Former Head of Fresh One Productions get massive audiences and it’s ridiculous to think it Communications for Tony Blair and Author, The Spin Doctor’s Panellists Finn Arnesen Senior Vice President and General Brands and Documentaries will”. Today the channel can enjoy audiences of Diary Peter Oborne Politics Reporter, Channel 4 Dispatches Manager for Original Series and International Development, and Author, The Triumph of the Political Class Turner Broadcasting over a million with content as diverse as Ian Hislop The Fintry Ric Bailey Chief Advisor, Politics, BBC Editorial Policy Jonathan Boseley Vice President, Programming, Disney Goes off the Rails to Fanny Hill. What does and Standards Channels UK and Ireland Marc Goodchild Head of Interactive and On-demand, controller Richard Klein think is the key to its BBC Children’s Sponsored by: success and how does he intend to build on it in Matt Locke Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Education today’s challenging climate?

Executive Producers Helen Bullough Head of Entertainment Documentaries are a powerful medium for Productions, BBC Manchester Mirella Breda Executive Editor, communicating values and emotion, making them Entertainment Commissioning, BBC Producer James Marshall Freelance Development Producer increasingly attractive to sophisticated consumer Chair Ray Snoddy Journalist brands looking for new ways to engage their fans, Speaker Richard Klein Controller, BBC Four customers and audiences. Waitrose were a major partner of The End of the Line, a doc about over- fishing, Puma supported BBC’s The Day After

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13:00 – 14:00 Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin: 30 Years of Polluting the Airwaves

The Fintry

Hailed as an “era-defining” sitcom, Outnumbered has reinvented the sitcom, brilliantly capturing the comic chaos of family life through tight plotting and inspired improvisation. The show’s writers/ INDUSTRY NEWS & TRAINING producers/directors Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin chat to Andrew Collins about their thirty years at the heart of British comedy, from their early careers OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FILM, writing on shows such as Shelley, Not the Nine O’Clock News and Who Dares Wins, via numerous solo projects, to their acclaimed co-creations Drop TV & DIGITAL MEDIA SECTORS the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered.

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The MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Dominic Bird, BAFTA-nominated Executive Joe Godwin The Network Sponsors Fast Track Sponsors Television Festival’s talent schemes Fast Track Producer of Dragons’ Den, was on the 1994 Head of News, Factual and and The Network offer some of the best scheme. “I was aware it was competitive and for Entertainment, Chair of The opportunities to help with a career in television, every 50 people who think they’re going to work in Network and Fast Track BBC Children’s anywhere in the UK. TV, 49 drop out. So it was a fantastic opportunity. Off the back of my place on TVYP (now The Nick Astor Anyone who’s been going to the TV Festival for a Network) I got a place on a trainee researcher Production Executive, Comedy Academy few (or even many, many) years knows a “Network” scheme at GMTV, TVYP definitely got me through Commissioning delegate when they see one. From the white the door at GMTV.” BBC T-shirted crowds who whoop from the balcony Kate Barnes when mentioned at the MacTaggart Lecture on Andrew Zein, Managing Director of Tiger Aspect Deputy, Digital Channels Friday night, to the bleary-eyed hoards who stagger Productions attended TV25 (now Fast Track) Five around The George Hotel bar on Saturday night, “Fast Track gives people, and gave me, the most Dominic Bird The Networkers are conspicuous by their presence. important thing in television – access to talent and Executive Producer decision-makers. Done in the context of being BBC Entertainment While The Network aims to give total newcomers alongside your peer group, the contacts, access Karoline Copping an insight into the industry, Fast Track provides and friendships are still very much in place today. Executive Producer those with two to four years’ experience a real Doing this as part of the TV Festival and being Zara Hayes career springboard. Participants attend intimate paid for, means that there is no better scheme Director and Producer masterclasses and get the chance to network for for tomorrow’s production talent”. Freelance two days before they join the main TV Festival on Friday night. And crucially, both schemes are Camilla Lewis Head of Factual Features free, so together with our outreach programme, talkbackTHAMES we are opening up the industry to a more Are you a former TVYPer, Networker, Fast Tracker diverse demographic. or TV25’er? Did you benefit from these schemes Catherine Lynch in any of their former guises? Head of Development Creatives “The two schemes are very different” says Joe Endemol UK Godwin, Head of News, Factual and Entertainment We would love to hear from you to find out where James MacLeod at BBC Children’s and Chair of both schemes, you are now and get your updated details. Please Media Relations Manager “the Network is for people at college, university or email [email protected] ITV thinking about their career who would like to work Jason Mitchell in TV but aren’t sure how to do it. Fast Track is for Development Producer people who already work in TV - ambitious www.mgeitf.co.uk/fasttrack Maverick Television hotshots ready to go to the next level in their www.mgeitf.co.uk/network Vivienne Molokwu chosen area”. Producer

Brighter Pictures labs This year, 40 people are taking part in Fast Track Cameron Roach and 150 are on The Network. That’s a lot of young Producer people getting a massive leg-up in one of the UK’s most competitive creative industries. “We Tanya Shaw Commissioning Editor, Specialist also continue to support these delegates, with Factual the Network at Work placement scheme, ongoing Channel 4 training and an active group of former delegates, the alumni, providing information and opportunities”. Jo Taylor Head of Learning and 4Talent Channel 4

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Tim Hincks Anthony Fry Stuart Murphy Elaine Bedell Heather Jones Karen Smith Chief Executive Officer Senior Managing Director Director of Programmes Director of Entertainment Director of Television Joint Managing Director Endemol UK Evercore Partners Sky 1, 2 and 3 and Comedy Music and Comedy Shine TV BSkyB ITV MTVN UK Kenton Allen Wayne Garvie Ben Stephenson Chief Executive Officer Managing Director of Content Andrew Newman Ben Adler David Kermode Controller, Drama Commissioning Big Talk Productions and Production Head of Comedy and Entertainment Director of Group Development Editor BBC BBC Worldwide Channel 4 Optomen Television Five News Paul Almond Russell Stopford Head of Communications Janine Gibson Sara Ramsden Mark Aldridge Dan Korn Managing Director BBC Vision Editor Creative Director, Cheetah Television Head of Sky Movies Production Senior Vice President and Met Film Creative and BBC guardian.co.uk Endemol UK BSkyB Head of Programming Met Film Post Discovery UK Ash Atalla Joe Godwin Patrick Robinson Mirella Breda Graham Stuart Managing Director Head of News, Factual and Head of Corporate and Public Affairs Executive Editor, Entertainment Michele Kurland Company Director Roughcut Television Entertainment Virgin Media Television Commissioning Executive Producer, The Apprentice So Television BBC Children’s BBC and Head of Factual Entertainment James Baker Paul Robinson Kevin Sutcliffe talkbackTHAMES Daisy Goodwin Managing Director, Worldwide Amanda Bruckshaw Deputy Head News and Peter Barron Head Girl KidsCo Deputy UK News Editor Joe Mace Current Affairs Director of Communications Silver River Productions BBC News Head of Format Entertainment Channel 4 North and Central Europe Jane Root Development Google Krishnan Guru-Murthy Chief Executive Officer Helen Bullough Lucy Tallon BBC Newscaster Nutopia Head of Entertainment Productions Artist Liaison Officer Elanie Bedell Channel 4 News BBC Manchester Sarfraz Manzoor Comic Relief Director of Entertainment Rebecca Rormark Writer and Broadcaster and Comedy Steve Hewlett Senior Vice President, UK Marketing Sumi Connock Deborah Turness ITV Writer, Broadcaster and Media Discovery Communications Europe Head of Entertainment Ayesha Mohideen Editor Consultant ITV Studios Head of Knowledge Multiplatform ITV News Josh Berger Ruth Settle Commissioning President and Managing Director Stephen Lambert Director of Corporate Communications Martin Cunning Helen Veale BBC Warner Bros Entertainment UK Chief Executive ITV Freelance Executive Creative Director and Ireland Studio Lambert Ltd Andrew O’Connell Outline Productions Alison Sharman Iain Dodgeon Head of Factual Murray Boland Ian Lewis Director, Factual and Daytime Creative Executive Kate Ward Five Creative Director Director of Sky Movies and Sky ITV STV Vice President CPL Productions Box Office Lisa Perrin Shine Network Chris Shaw Sam Donnelly BSkyB Director of Commissioning Charles Brand Senior Programme Controller Executive Producer, Entertainment Nigel Warner Entertainment Head of Specialist Factual Anthony Lilley Five BBC Director of Public Affairs UKTV Tiger Aspect Productions Chief Creative Officer and Chief ITV Patrick Walker Boel Ferguson Executive Officer Gareth Rees Alan Clements Director of Video Partnerships (EMEA) Vice President and General Manager Karl Warner Magic Lantern Productions Commercial Director Director of Content Google Disney Channel UK Executive Editor, Entertainment Boomerang + PLC STV David Lynn Commissioning David Flynn Executive Vice President and Ollie Rickman BBC Danny Cohen Managing Director Managing Director Communications and Public Controller Brighter Pictures Simon Wilson MTV Networks UK and Ireland Affairs Manager BBC Three Executive Editor, Comedy Jeff Ford Google and YouTube Andrew Mackenzie Commissioning Peter Cowley Managing Director, Digital Head of Factual Entertainment Tanya Shaw BBC Managing Director of Digital Media Channels and Acquisitions Channel 4 Commissioning Editor, Specialist Endemol UK Five Factual Alex Mahon James Herring Channel 4 President Joint Managing Director Shine Group Taylor Herring Communications

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Festival Team Paul Volker Michael Rosser Blitz, Operations Coordinator Broadcastnow.co.uk Amy Brown Amanda Linton Andrew Milligan Festival Director Accountant Britain’s Got Talent Su Moore James Herring Tony Diamond, Adele Grittin Commercial Director Taylor Herring Communications and Leon Gunning YouGov Sarah Aldridge Debra Johnson Acting Network and Taylor Herring Communications Zoe McIntyre Fast Track Director ITV Sue Dale Kam Kandola Stanmore Travel Editorial Producer Rob McDougall Adam Rossetto Photographer Sponsorship and Marketing Coordinator Small www.studiosmall.com Environmentally-friendly Warsan Ali Festival design Festival The Network and Fast Track Coordinator This year the Festival is continuing Suzanne Robbins with its green initiative to improve Registration Coordinator its ecological footprint. The aim is to achieve carbon Holly Blake A special thank you to... Festival Assistant neutral status over the next few years as well as source Liz Swift Russell Stopford and merchandise and collateral Festival Researcher Mayur Upadhyaya Glow Labs ethically and locally. Nicky Clarke Production Director Sara Rhodes, Sarah Ellison, As part of this strategy we source Laura Simpson, Linda Larsson all print material from sustainable Claudia Lay and all at forests, provide recycle bins Production Coordinator The Guardian throughout our venues and Pete Sullivan Kristie-Jane Kent promote environmentally-friendly Production Manager ITV travel to all guests. Nick Powers June Clements In association with: The Network Production Endemol UK Manager Rebecca Smith Lec Croft Liberty and Cole Lighting Designer Ben Thursby Andrew Gordon talkbackTHAMES Set Designer Mary O’Reilly Andrew Kennedy talkbackTHAMES Printed by Good News Press an ISO14001 Perton Signs, Signage certified and carbon-neutral printing and Branding Laura Gallen company on an FSC certified substrate. Indigo Television John Tosh Sound Designer George Cooper Comic Relief

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