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Created 01 Dec 2003

MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) has announced the Advisory Committee for the 2004 Festival. The committee will work with the 2004 Advisory Chair Murray Boland, Head of Programmes, E4 and MGEITF, on the editorial content of this year’s Festival.

Created 11 Nov 2003

Television and Young People – TVYP - has joined forces with the BBC’s Byker Grove to provide a day of workshops for young hopefuls aspiring to work in the television industry. The day will take place at Byker Grove in Newcastle – the home of one of the BBC’s longest running and most popular teen dramas – on Saturday 7 December 2002.

Created 23 Oct 2003

Chris Albrecht, Chairman and CEO, HBO, delivered this year’s Worldview Address

Created 10 Oct 2003

Murray Boland, Head of Digital Programming and Head of Programmes at E4, has today been announced as the Advisory Chair for the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2004.

Created 26 Aug 2003

Sara Ramsden, Channel 4’s Head of Events and Factual Entertainment, has today been announced as the Advisory Chair for the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2003.

Created 23 Jul 2003

Leading frontline war correspondents and editorial chiefs will take the stage at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) to take part in Saddam Hussein: My Part in his Downfall, a debate on the industry’s coverage of the Iraq war.

Created 22 Jul 2003

MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) today unveils worrying research about the problem of bullying within the media industry, with over a quarter of workers experiencing bullying at work. (22 July 2003) A survey carried out for TV Festival by YouGov reveals that 28% of the industry claims to have been bullied, including racist, sexist and homophobic bullying and abuse by senior management.

Created 22 Jul 2003

Controversial writer and broadcaster Rod Liddle is to deliver the 2003 MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival Alternative MacTaggart (Alt.Mac) Lecture. Rod Liddle will talk about political correctness in television, the level of regulation and the make-up of the industry. He may also touch upon the last twelve months of his career, which saw him leave his job as editor BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.

Created 22 Jul 2003

Rageh Omaar, Paul Abbott, Brian Capron, Chris Albrecht, Michael Barrymore, Chris Cramer, Greg Dyke, Tony Ball, Nicky Campbell, Jana Bennett, Dawn Airey, John Willis, Richard Bacon, Annie Griffin, Rod Liddle, Janet Street-Porter, James Brown, Tessa Jowell MP, Tony Maddox, John Simm and Colonel Chris Vernon are just some of the top names confirmed for this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, (MGEITF) which has today announced the full details of the 2003 Festival events programme (22 July).

Created 22 Jul 2003

MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) 2003 will bring together a panel of broadcasting’s best serial drama producers and two of the year’s most high profile soap actors turned soap serial killers, to deconstruct the formula for a winning soap opera.