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Mediaguardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 22 – 24 August 2008 Programme of Events FTV Edinburgh A5 Advert:Layout 1 21/7/08 13:01 Page 1 MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 22 – 24 August 2008 Programme of Events FTV Edinburgh A5 advert:Layout 1 21/7/08 13:01 Page 1 ftv.co.uk Contents For more information: 020 8900 5800 [email protected] Welcome 02 Sponsors 04 Festival Highlights 07 Festival Information 18 Festival Extras 20 Social Events 21 Orientation Guide 22 Festival Venues 23 Friday Sessions 24 Schedule at a Glance 28 Saturday Sessions 32 Sunday Sessions 43 Fast Track & The Network 50 Executive Committee 54 Advisory Committee 55 Festival Team 56 High performance. Guaranteed. Fountain can now offer High Definition as well as Standard Definition facilities. To find out more about what HD can do for you, contact the team: 020 8900 5800. Advertisement designed by glow-designs.com 01 Welcome Tim Hincks: Executive Chair Andrew Mackenzie: Advisory Chair “This year is about television “We set the pace in many genres healing itself, moving on and feeling of television around the world. We a renewed sense of confidence.” want to celebrate that this weekend and recognise that this isn’t a TV Festival are talent, ideas and content. We can feel pretty proud of the talent we have as an industry. conference – it’s a Festival!” That doesn’t mean it’s going to be a massive Across the weekend we’ve tried to simplify the back-slapping exercise. Sessions will be as sessions schedule a bit this year. So the Pentland has questioning and analytical as usual, but hopefully sessions on enormous issues you can’t avoid, from with a more positive tone than last year and with public service broadcasting and the Post MacTaggart a little less Max Mosley-style self-flagellation. to Question Time. Tim Hincks is Executive Chair of the MediaGuardian When I asked Peter Fincham to deliver the Andrew Mackenzie is Advisory Chair of the 2008 In the next room we have a really strong strand of Edinburgh International Television Festival and MacTaggart Lecture he was young, free and Edinburgh International Television Festival and Head creative masterclasses that celebrate the industry’s Chief Executive of Endemol UK. He heads the unattached. He was the perfect choice for this year’s of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4. He, along talent on screen and off. Last year we found the Peep Festival’s Executive Committee that meets five address because he’s made a career out of ideas with his Advisory Committee, is directly responsible Show Masterclass was one of the things people liked times a year and is responsible for appointing the and talent. I asked him because of his relationship for this year’s line-up of more than 50 sessions. most. It is one of the industry’s favourite programmes, Advisory Chair of each year’s Festival and for overall with talent and ideas. Now he’s very helpfully decided so we took that and built on it. This year we have governance of the event. to take the top job at ITV to make the MacTaggart Tim Kring, Graham Linehan, Jamie Oliver, Skins and Lecture even more interesting and exciting, for which “When we started discussions about this year’s Fonejacker to name a few. They are shows and talent I’m very thankful. Festival, it was a funny old time in terms of trust in that have taken on their genre creatively. Hopefully “Edinburgh is created by and for the people who television. Last year’s Edinburgh was timely; it dealt people can walk away from those sessions feeling actually work in the industry – people who make Thanks to Andy Mackenzie and his team. I think with those issues very well. The industry was very stimulated and inspired. television shows; not just the controllers and CEOs, 2008 is going to be a vintage Festival. And if it’s not, keen to come together and gather itself and there but broadly those who actually work in television obviously, don’t blame me.” were several sessions that really captured Then we’ve got the controller sessions where we’ll and content across all platforms. That’s what makes that moment and took the debate on. hear from Peter Fincham, Jay Hunt and Ben Gale in it special. By Lucy Rouse their new roles. Plus, all the other sessions that will This year, amid discussion about public service capture the key issues of 2008. To borrow Festival Last year there was a lot of soul-searching. Debate television and the increasing effect of digital Director Amy Brown’s phrase, ‘last year was the year about whether TV was in crisis made for more than its penetration, we’ve been keen to consciously of controversy, this is the year of consequences.’ So fair share of cheap headlines but at last year’s Festival recognise the immense talent the British television in sessions like Commissioners’ Panic Room we’ll be there was deep questioning about the rights, wrongs industry holds. It is without doubt one of the UK’s rehearsing scenarios that test how we deal with the and ethics of making television. Hair shirts were foremost creative exports. We set the pace in many legacy of trust and looking for kneejerk judgements. handed round. Some of what was going on this time genres of television around the world. We want to It’s one of the sessions we hope will be dramatic, last year was incredibly serious, such as the problems celebrate that this weekend and recognise that this entertaining and get to the crux of how the industry with premium phone line competitions; some was less isn’t a TV conference – it’s a Festival! It takes place has changed since last year. Enjoy.” serious. But it was all lumped together so we had a over a bank holiday, let’s spread a little glamour sense of collective breakdown. and make people feel excited about working in an By Lucy Rouse amazing industry. This year is about television healing itself, moving on and feeling a renewed sense of confidence. One thing The hottest topic of the year seems to be the public we will celebrate as part of the fightback this year service broadcasting debate. There aren’t many is talent. Television is a young, ambitious industry. opportunities for us to gather together and analyse Whether you’re looking at how to grow your indie, what the new Communications Act is going to look how to have ideas that work on different platforms or like or what public service responsibilities various whether you want to hear about the making of Skins organisations should have in the future. or Heroes, some of the key words at this year’s 02 03 Title & Major Sponsors Title Sponsor Edinburgh International video projection, camera systems, ITV1 continues to be the highest Television Festival would like audio PA systems, graphics rating channel for peak time to thank our sponsors for their production and equipment, viewing and the home of popular generous support. LED video walls, lighting, stage event television, from major world sets with experienced technical class sporting events to the Attracting 33 million viewers personnel to provide support. biggest drama and entertainment each month, UKTV consists of www.blitzcommunications.co.uk Disney Channel, part of the shows. ITV2 is the most popular nine, soon to be ten, innovative Disney-ABC Television Group, airs digital channel in the UK. ITV was MTV Networks UK & Ireland is the and distinctive channels including MediaGuardian is proud to hit movies and series including the first UK terrestrial broadcaster second largest digital channel pack Dave, UKTV Gold, UKTV Food be the title sponsor of the High School Musical and Hannah to simulcast its main channel on with 17 entertainment channels and the eagerly anticipated Watch Festival for the twelfth year. Montana. Playhouse Disney is 3G mobile and ITV Mobile has operating across three distinct and Alibi. UKTV’s success is based MediaGuardian and the home of fun, learning-based become one of the UK’s biggest genres – Comedy, Kids and Music. on its programming, including MediaGuardian.co.uk are the entertainment that engages the non-operator mobile portals. Flagship brands include MTV, VH1, award winning BBC shows, original UK’s leading consumer media imaginations of pre-schoolers www.itv.com Paramount Comedy, Nickelodeon commissions and acquisitions. publications, with the latest Channel 4 was established by with shows like My Friends Tigger and Nick Jr. MTV Networks is the UKTV is dedicated to providing news and features on the an Act of Parliament in 1982 and Pooh. Disney Cinemagic is a largest television network in the a quality channel platform television industry, plus and came on air in November of premium channel, offering family world and a leading creator of environment for the best content hundreds of media jobs. the same year. It enjoys unique programming. programming and content across producers, including some www.mediaguardian.co.uk status as the world’s only major www.disneychannel.co.uk all media platforms. Its brands can of the UK’s top independent public service broadcaster funded be seen globally in 508.3 million programme makers. entirely by its own commercial households in 160 countries www.uktv.co.uk Major Sponsors activities, including advertising Magic Lantern is a multiplatform and 32 languages via 142 locally funded digital TV channels E4, media production company programmed and operated TV More4 and Film4. Channel 4 which bridges the gap between channels and more than 300 digital R commissions all its programmes traditional media and the media properties. from third parties and has played interactive, on-demand world. www.mtvnetworks.co.uk the leading role in helping nurture The world’s leading Working with clients and partners The BBC is the world’s best known and grow a vibrant community of post-production group.
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