Festival 2008

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Loves Me, Loves Me Not...

A special report researched and written by Deloitte

Festival Programme 2008

Full details of the 2008 Programme are available now

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Loves Me, Loves Me Not...

A special report researched and written by Deloitte

More top creative talent confirmed

Leading lights in the creative industries including Father Ted writer and director Graham Linehan, creators of FoneJacker, Ed Tracy and Kayvan Novak, PR guru Max Clifford and Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, will speak at this year’s Festival

Richard & Judy to reveal all at MGEITF

King and Queen of daytime Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan will make their first ever appearance at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival

With much talk about on-line, on-demand, i-players and streaming laptops, is this the end of television as we know it? Let's hope so. Unless we do something radical and remarkable, British TV will never claw back its reputation as the source of the highest quality television content in the...

If you're going to go to only one session this year, then make sure it's this one. As Ofcom prepares to publish its recommendations for the future of public service broadcasting - the industry as we know it could change beyond all recognition.The key decisions will be made this year by thes...

At the first Edinburgh TV Festival in 1976 the notion that a woman might one day be Controller of BBC One would probably have been dismissed as downright fanciful. Back then it was still accepted that women knew their place and it definitely wasn't in charge of a television channel. Thirty-...

The much anticipated thoughts on the state of the industry from the man who, in the space of a year, has been in charge of Britain's two biggest television channels. Peter Fincham resigned as Controller of BBC One following the controversy over the Queen documentary and in February 2008 beca...