Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content for YouTube, will be in conversation with Edith Bowman giving viewers an exclusive and insider look at the content and programmatic evolution of YouTube Originals, what makes YouTube shows unique from other streamers, and why diversity and female l...

British indies make some of the most celebrated and influential TV programmes in the world. Last year’s PACT survey revealed that indie revenues were at an all time high with more than three billion pounds of turnover between them. But margins are becoming tighter and Covid is only heightening th...

Having just won their first BAFTA, UKTV’s editorial leaders come together to discuss how the BBC Studios-owned broadcaster is continuing to adapt and move forward. On the digital stage will be director of commissioning, Richard Watsham and his deputy, Hilary Rosen, along with genre general manage...

Delegates from the TV PhD scheme have been given a masterclass in development from Nutopia. In this session, they’ll use what they’ve learnt to pitch ideas based on their research to a panel of commissioners.TV PhD is a scheme run by the TV Foundation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities R...

Howard Lee has been an integral part of TLC, now ranked no.1 in primetime for women across all ad-supported cable. Having presided over hits such as 90 Day Fiancé and Say Yes to the Dress, Lee will talk about what’s catching his eye for his slate going forward, working with his Discovery colleagu...

A global pandemic has pushed environmental matters from the top of the news agenda, but the planet is still facing existential threats as sea levels rise and temperatures increase. In the face of this, how can – and should – businesses react? Sky’s Group Chief Executive, Jeremy Darroch, will expl...

Terms & Conditions is a feature documentary
that goes beyond the headlines and nihilistic
lyrics associated with UK Drill to tell the
true stories of young Londoners who have
made this form of music as both their form of
expression, and a way out. This session will
look at the process...

BBC One’s acclaimed Windrush drama Sitting in Limbo, will be the subject of a session exploring how Stephen S. Thompson, a new-to-TV writer, took his brother Anthony’s lived experience of the ongoing Windrush controversy to the TV screen. Stephen will be joined by director, Stella Corradi and lea...

The death of George Floyd in late May and the global reckoning with racism it provoked
was one of the most seismic events of the last decade. For TV journalists, the Black
Lives Matter movement posed a number of challenging questions. Can news organisations
truly reflect the experiences of ...

2020 is undoubtedly a year of reckoning for the TV industry, Edinburgh does… Question Time is bringing together some of the most powerful gatekeepers and policy makers of the industry and putting the spotlight on them to address some of the most pertinent questions indies, freelancers and industr...

As the coronavirus plunged the UK into taking never-before-seen measures to try and save lives, British viewers in their millions turned to television news to understand what was really going on. How dangerous was the pandemic? Could they trust what the government was saying? And were we making t...

We’ll be taking a closer look at the BBC Three show that became a hit under lockdown, Normal People. The session features stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal in conversation with their Oscar nominated director Lenny Abrahamson, exec producer Ed Guiney from Element Pictures and director of BBC...

US-based director of unscripted originals for Netflix, Nathaniel Grouille, and director of unscripted originals and acquisitions Sean Hancock will be joined by Talkback’s Laura Gibson and Viki Kolar, the creator and exec producer of Too Hot to Handle respectively, to talk about taking a UK-origin...

It’s been a seismic year for the world, and closer to home for Channel 4. As the broadcaster set
up shop in a concerted way outside of London and made a fuller commitment to the nations
and regions, it also had to contend with the impact of advertiser revenues falling as a crisis
took grip....

Amazon Studios dived deeper into locally-originated programming in 2020, with new shows from the UK and all over Europe. As director of European Originals, Georgia Brown, oversees this ongoing effort, heading up a team that ommissions scripted and unscripted Amazon Original series across the cont...

George Floyd’s killing sparked global protests
that kickstarted a fresh debate around diversity
in TV. One brought even further into focus by
the recent use of the N-word on our screens.
But we’ve been here before and nothing seems
to change – so is it time to take a more radical
appr...

Sky has moved its Arts channel free-to-air this
year and launched several factual channels.
Sky One and Sky Atlantic, meanwhile, have
enjoyed some big hits, notably in drama with
both homegrown and US fare. Managing
Director of Content, Sky UK and Ireland, Zai
Bennet discusses where t...

BBC Three has had a banner year, with Normal
People and other shows striking a chord
with its core audience and well beyond. The
success of Three and its ability to reach the
younger demographics that the BBC must
secure is such that there is talk of it becoming
a full linear channel ...

Charlotte Moore, BBC director of content,
will talk about how BBC One has reacted to
a tumultuous year and discuss the direction
of the channel at a moment of widespread
industry and social change.
BBC One has captured huge audiences as the
nation clamoured for information as a global ...

Ben Frow is one of the most recognisable,
passionate, and unflinchingly honest TV
bosses working in our industry. Over the past
few years, he has transformed Channel 5’s
reputation – and taken it to places few people
would have thought possible.
But with a hat-trick of Channel of the Y...

As mainstream producers are increasingly making the shift into creating quality television for children and young people, we ask how are these audiences evolving and what funding is available to make these ideas a reality. The BFI’s Head of Young Audiences Content Fund Jackie Edwards, with stella...

The British star of award-winning comedy The Good Place and founder of I Weigh, is also well
known as a powerful voice on feminism, body positivity and inclusivity, and will deliver the
Alternative MacTaggart Lecture, sharing her experiences of working in television in UK and
US, dealing wi...

ITV moved fast in 2020 to adapt its schedule in the light of extraordinary and fast-changing
global events. With holes to fill and production challenges, the channel went to extraordinary
lengths to keep major franchises and talent on air and its big, broad audience entertained.
Kevin Lygo, ...

Jennifer Kim, Senior Vice President, International Originals for HBO Max, will talk about where UK and international programming fits into the picture for the newly-minted streamer. Responsible for leading International content development for the SVOD service and finding co-production opportunit...