Media
This year's Edinburgh TV Festival will feature "dead bodies, politics and lots of people having sex", it was announced today.
The programme for the event, which runs between August 26 and 28, was unveiled by advisory chair Tim Hincks, chief creative officer at Endemol UK.
"It's packed to the gills with the people who run television, star in it, and work in it," he said. "And every issue from sex to reality TV, to the problems of political journalism, to the future for content on mobile phones will be covered. And there's live ballroom dancing."
Among the highlights:
The programme for the event, which runs between August 26 and 28, was unveiled by advisory chair Tim Hincks, chief creative officer at Endemol UK.
"It's packed to the gills with the people who run television, star in it, and work in it," he said. "And every issue from sex to reality TV, to the problems of political journalism, to the future for content on mobile phones will be covered. And there's live ballroom dancing."
Among the highlights:
- Question Time: A special Edinburgh-based edition of the political debate show, with guests Theresa May, Greg Dyke and Andrew Neil
- BBC Director-General Mark Thompson talks to Peter Bazalgette about his first year in the job
- Greg Dyke interviews Andy Duncan about his new role as C4 CEO
- Reality TV regulars James Hewitt and Paul Danan speak about the genre
- Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are interviewed about new series Extras
- Controversial German anatomist Gunther Von Hagen brings one of his plastinations to a debate on televisual taboos
- Sky Networks CEO Dawn Airey joins a session examining Freeview's challenge to Pay TV
- Execs Tony Wood and Kathleen Beedles join actors Bradley Walsh and Patsy Kensit to discuss the future of soaps
- Richard Bacon chairs a debate on the state of music television in the UK
- Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly present an Edinburgh edition of Strictly Come Dancing featuring Lorraine Heggessey, Stephen Lambert, Daisy Goodwin, Dan Chambers and Richard Woolfe
- Controller interviews including Dan Chambers (Five), James Baker (Sky One), Peter Fincham (BBC One), Janice Hadlow (BBC Four), Kevin Lygo (Channel 4), Nigel Pickard (ITV), Roly Keating (BBC Two), Stuart Murphy (BBC Three), Andrea Wong (ABC), Jane Root (Discovery Channel USA)
- John Birt delivering the MacTaggart Lecture and Germaine Greer the 'Alternative' counterpart
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