Welcome to Digital Spy's live coverage of the 2007 MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival!

The DS team are in Edinburgh reporting on the world's top TV festival. Look out for up-to-the-minute blog posts, in-depth news features and video reports from Edinburgh all festival long.

Edinburgh International TV Festival

• Aug 30, 2007 Friday-night entertainment for BBC Three
  BBC Three controller Danny Cohen says he wants a Friday night entertainment show to pull viewers in.
  
• Aug 27, 2007 It's time for answers
  Television is moving on from beating itself up over trust cock-ups and is getting serious about the more fundamental challenges it faces.
• Aug 27, 2007 ITV's Shaps admits to making "similar" shows
  ITV's director of television admits that the network is guilty of being "inspired" by rival formats.
• Aug 27, 2007 The Eco Bags
  What's in this year's festival goodie-bags?
• Aug 27, 2007 Police complaints on 'Mosque' "bizarre"
  A senior Channel 4 figure calls the police complaints over Undercover Mosque "bizarre".
• Aug 27, 2007 C4's Bellamy wants new drama era
  Channel 4 chief programmer Julian Bellamy is looking for a new era in series drama.
• Aug 27, 2007 C4's Bellamy expresses current affairs fear
  Channel 4's Julian Bellamy warns that indy consolidation could impact current affairs production.
• Aug 26, 2007 Bellamy seeks "campaign edge" for C4
  Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy calls for Channel 4 to adopt a "campaigning edge".
• Aug 26, 2007 Q&A: ITV's Paul Jackson
  DS spoke to ITV's director of entertainment and comedy, Paul Jackson, following his TVYP session at MGEITF.
• Aug 26, 2007 Davina McCall shocked by CBB axe
  Davina McCall is furious that she was left in the dark about Celebrity Big Brother being axed.
• Aug 26, 2007 "How's about that then?"
  Sir Jimmy Savile fixes-it for some TV execs, and then fixes his attention on me.
• Aug 25, 2007 What do young people want to watch?
  A session at MGEITF sees established indies pitch to a panel from the Television and Young People forum.
• Aug 25, 2007 Worst channel of the year awards ever?
  Could this have been the most disappointing Channel of the Year Awards ceremony ever?
• Aug 25, 2007 BBC One named Channel of the Year
  BBC One and ITV2 triumph at this year's Channel of the Year awards.
• Aug 25, 2007 Opie: Five's factual progs 'better than ITV's'
  Five's managing director of content Lisa Opie talks up Five's new content for autumn 2007.
• Aug 25, 2007 Root: Discovery clear on its purpose
  At a festival consumed by debate over what public service broadcasting means, Jane Root says Discovery has a clear idea.
• Aug 25, 2007 CBB hopefuls disappointed by show's axe
  Hairdressers Nick Malenko and Royston Blythe are disappointed that the show isn't going ahead.
• Aug 25, 2007 Channel 4's on trial
  Channel 4's Andy Duncan and Kevin Lygo are put on trial for everything ranging from CBB to 'You Say, We Pay'.
• Aug 25, 2007 Charley: Emily should have been ejected
  Charley Uchea from Big Brother says that it was right for Channel 4 producers to eject Emily Parr from the series.
• Aug 25, 2007 Gene Hunt's language 'toned down'
  Life on Mars character was originally even more racially offensive in the first scripts.

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