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Created 22 Nov 2005

The Edinburgh Television Festival is the UK's leading event for television professionals. Now in its 31st year, it continues to be the seminal gathering for producers and executives in broadcasting worldwide.

Created 17 Nov 2005

Alison Sharman has announced she is leaving the BBC to become ITV’s new director of factual and daytime. She will remain the Advisory Chair for the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2006.

Created 28 Aug 2005

CBBC Controller Alison Sharman has today been announced as the Advisory Chair for the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2006.

Created 27 Aug 2005

When Dawn unexpectedly invited me to give this 30th Anniversary lecture my immediate instinct quite honestly was to refuse - despite her formidable back-you-up-against-the-wall-you-can't-say-no-to-me powers of persuasion. My head is somewhere else now, I thought. Anyway, when the Bishop retires he should leave the Diocese. My presence will simply inflame old hostilities. But I forced myself to take a day or two to reflect. And I changed my mind. Truth to tell, I devoted the bulk of my life to this industry. I care about it deeply and passionately. And I stand before you tonight - one of the few MacTaggart lecturers ever to be eligible for a free bus pass - because I finally realised I really did want to talk to you - the people who drive and power this great industry - about a subject that increasingly sets me alight - the looming, intensifying threat to the UK's extraordinarily successful tradition of public service broadcasting. This will be my subject tonight. The health warning is that I speak purely in a personal capacity.

Created 12 Aug 2005

Journalist Andrew Gilligan is to deliver the inaugural MediaGuardian Lecture at this year’s Edinburgh International Television Festival (12 August 2004). The former BBC journalist responsible for the Today programme report on the September dossier, will deliver a keynote speech on broadcast journalism on Saturday 28 August.

Created 25 Jul 2005

The news is going hardcore. The Iraq hostage videos; rotting corpses on tropical beaches after the Tsunami; terrified children running from the terrorists who took over their school; first aid given to victims in the wake of the London 7/7 bombings. These compelling stories have presented newsrooms with an agonising dilemma – how much do you show? Lyndsey Hillsum, (International Editor at Channel 4 News), John Ryley, (Executive Editor at Sky News), Stephen Whittle, (Controller, Editorial Policy at BBC) and John McCarthy (author, and broadcaster) debate the issues that arise in the newsroom, and the impact they have on the watching public. Alastair Stewart (London News Networks) chairs the discussion.

Created 19 Jul 2005

LONDON – Controversial German anatomist Gunther Von Hagen, the inventor of the plastination technique and creator of the successful Body Worlds exhibitions, will attend this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival and plans to bring one of his renowned plastinations with him to the Edinburgh stage. Von Hagen, who presented the Channel 4 series Anatomy for Beginners, invented the plastination technique in 1977. A groundbreaking technology for preserving anatomical specimens, Von Hagen wants to allow delegates to interact with the plastination during the Dying to be on TV session.

Created 19 Jul 2005

LONDON - Dawn Airey, Tim Allan, Richard Bacon, James Baker, John Birt, Adam Boulton, Nick Broomfield, Dan Chambers, Adam Curtis, Tess Daly, Charles Dance, Evan Davis, Andy Duncan, Greg Dyke, Peter Fincham, Bruce Forsyth, Ricky Gervais, Roger Graef, Germaine Greer, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Janice Hadlow, Lorraine Heggessey, Steve Hewlett, Luke Johnson, Roly Keating, Patsy Kensit, Stephen Lambert, Caroline Leddy, Rod Liddle, Joanna Lumley, Kevin Lygo, Donal MacIntyre, Paul Marquess, Theresa May, John McCarthy, Stephen Merchant, Paul Morley, Roger Mosey, Stuart Murphy, Andrew Neil, Nigel Pickard, Victoria Pile, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Portillo, Nick Robinson, Jane Root, David Soul, Mark Thompson, Gunther Von Hagen, Kirsty Wark, Ann Widdecombe and Andrea Wong are just some of the top names confirmed for this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, which has today announced the 2005 Festival events programme. Registration and full programme are available at www.mgeitf.co.uk.

Created 13 Jul 2005

Ten years after OJ Simpson was cleared of her sister’s murder, Denise Brown, older sister of Nicole Brown Simpson, will address Edinburgh Television Festival delegates this August on a panel debating the permitting of cameras into courts.

Created 13 Jul 2005

Rebecca Loos, former Personal Assistant to David Beckham, will address Edinburgh Television Festival delegates this August on a panel debating chequebook journalism in broadcasting, it was announced today