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Introducing the 2009 Advisory Committee and Chair
Catch up with the sessions you missed from MGEITF 2008...
Leading lights in the creative industries including Father Ted writer and director Graham Linehan, creators of FoneJacker, Ed Tracy and Kayvan Novak, PR guru Max Clifford and Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, will speak at this year’s Festival
King and Queen of daytime Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan will make their first ever appearance at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival
Sharon Osbourne will be offering her first hand experience of why celebrities sign up to appear on reality TV programmes in I’m a Celebrity: Get Me on TV.
Sharon Osbourne joins an industry panel to discuss why any celebrity in their right mind would go on TV? Shows like Strictly Come Dancing, Hogan Knows Best and Celeb Big Brother have broken up relationships, destroyed families or wrecked careers.
The Fall and Rise of the Sitcom - Just three years after David Liddiment pronounced the sitcom dead, he's back to find out whether, with the help of a panel drawn from the current crop of sitcom stars and comedy supremos, new life has been breathed into it. Are we witnessing the revival of ...
The much anticipated thoughts on the state of the industry from the man who, in the space of a year, has been in charge of Britain's two biggest television channels. Peter Fincham resigned as Controller of BBC One following the controversy over the Queen documentary and in February 2008 beca...
With much talk about on-line, on-demand, i-players and streaming laptops, is this the end of television as we know it? Let's hope so. Unless we do something radical and remarkable, British TV will never claw back its reputation as the source of the highest quality television content in the ...
Leading lights in the creative industries including Father Ted writer and director Graham Linehan, creators of FoneJacker, Ed Tracy and Kayvan Novak, PR guru Max Clifford and Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, will speak at this year’s Festival