Tina Fey is ready to deliver a sprinkling of Hollywood star energy to the Edinburgh TV Festival subsequent month.
The award-winning multi-hyphenate has been confirmed as becoming a member of the small display screen occasions in Scotland and will participate in a dialog with beloved Irish TV host Graham Norton.
Elsewhere, “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker is ready to participate in what’s being billed as a “playful and provocative” in dialog occasion, set to cowl “the whole lot from comedy, AI, evil product design and the TV reveals that made him.”
Steven Lambert, CEO of prolific leisure present producer Studio Lambert — behind the likes of “The Traitors” “Gogglebox” and “Squid Recreation: The Problem” — will even attend a report a particular version of podcast The City.
Different additions to this yr’s Edinburgh TV Festival embody state of the business conversations on points similar to YouTube’s affect on TV and the scripted and unscripted funding disaster, alongside an “Adolescence” masterclass and a “Rival” reside script learn.
In the meantime, the choice Mactaggart lecture will likely be given by satirist, comic, author and actor Munya Chawawa, who will make the case for why broadcasters underestimate digital creatives at their peril and will situation a name to arms for artistic threat.
As beforehand introduced, former BBC Information chief James Harding will ship the keynote MacTaggart lecture. Harding, the founding father of Tortoise Media and is now editor-in-chief of The Observer newspaper, is ready to “study challenges to fact and belief within the media.”
Additionally Shonda Rhimes and Lenny Henry are additionally a part of the lineup, with Rhimes set to obtain the inaugural Edinburgh TV Festival fellowship.
The Edinburgh TV Festival runs Aug. 19 to 22.
