F***king Cats and Cracking Crime
Edinburgh TV Festival 2020 • 47m
With compelling and fascinating
documentaries dominating the viewing
schedules of audiences during lockdown,
this panel will focus on how linear Factual
TV can roar loud in a world of Joe Exotics
and Michael Jordans. Leading TV executives
including Minnow Films’ Sophie Leonard,
Head of Sky Docs’ Poppy Dixon, BBC Studios’
Tom McDonald alongside Channel 4’s Danny
Horan and Rogan Productions’ Soleta Rogan
will explore what UK Factual Producers can
learn from documentaries such as Tiger King
and The Last Dance, debate whether Channel
4 or the BBC would ever have commissioned
such series themselves, and look at which
stories Factual TV has to tell to attract viewers.
Up Next in Edinburgh TV Festival 2020
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European DGs Talk TV
Europe’s top public broadcasters give their
take on the challenges and opportunities
ahead. As with the BBC in the UK, other
European public broadcasters are having
to adapt to retain audiences as viewing
behaviour evolves, fend off competition as
deep-pocketed US streamers build shar... -
Whose Screen Is It Anyway?
How do we get our telly these days – on what,
and from whom? A golden age for content
means more choice of what to watch but more
ways to watch too. Is the TV set still the first
choice for viewing with so many other devices
at our fingertips? Once the TV’s on, how do
we get to the co... -
Ones To Watch: Random Acts Live Pitch
Delegates from 2020s Ones to Watch, the
Festival’s charitable scheme for emerging
talent, are some of the brightest minds working
in the industry. Come and watch the future of
television in action, pitching live for funding for
a Random Acts film. Eight 90-second pitches
will be vying...
