Jane Tranter has been named advisory chair for the fiftieth Edinburgh TV Competition because the fest overhauls the best way through which it compiles its program and eliminates its advisory committee.
Tranter, who runs Physician Who producer Unhealthy Wolf, will work carefully with Artistic Director Rowan Woods to set the editorial agenda and lead the curation of this 12 months’s Competition. That agenda might be guided by an open name for session concepts, an open name for session producers and a collection of open corridor city conferences with trade throughout the UK attended by Tranter and inventive director Rowan Woods to debate key points and themes for the sector. This can change the earlier advisory committee mannequin, which noticed dozens of trade figures come collectively to compile this system and has been scrapped.
The information comes because the 2025 version is ready to be the fiftieth for the pageant that brings collectively the nice and the great of the British TV trade. It’ll additionally characteristic the fiftieth prestigious MacTaggart lecture and embrace “a collection of thrilling new programming initiatives,” based on the fest.
“A serious theme of final 12 months’s Competition was the very important significance of inclusion and plurality of perspective, and it’s on this spirit that we’re making vital steps to open up the Competition’s programming course of,” stated Woods. “The ethos of the Edinburgh has all the time been ‘by the trade, for the trade’ and we wish to be sure that everybody feels capable of contribute no matter background, seniority or location.”
Final 12 months’s MacTaggart was delivered by Expensive England creator James Graham, who passionately argued for better working class illustration. Woods is into her second 12 months as artistic chief.
Jane Tranter
Tranter is a former BBC drama boss who established BBC Worldwide Productions (now BBC Studios Productions) and has for the previous decade been working Unhealthy Wolf with Julie Gardner. That outfit, which is owned by Sony, has made the likes of His Darkish Supplies, I Hate Suzie and, extra not too long ago, Physician Who with Tranter’s long-time artistic accomplice Russell T Davies. Outdoors of Unhealthy Wolf, Tranter was EP on international smash Succession.
Having a giant title scripted producer who has made reveals on each side of the pond chairing the fest feels apt because the UK trade is at present being hit severely arduous by the American slowdown. Because the boss of a Wales-based firm, Tranter can also be a passionate advocate for out-of-London commissioning – a sizzling subject at current.
Competition Chair Fatima Salaria stated: “We couldn’t be extra excited to have a powerhouse like Jane main the Competition in such a landmark 12 months. Her robust management, passionate advocacy for the nations and areas, and international imaginative and prescient make her the proper pressure to drive us ahead.”
Tranter stated the “continued success of the Edinburgh TV Competition is a transparent illustration of the impression that the nations have had – and proceed to have – on the cultural panorama of the UK, and all over the world.”
“The UK TV trade has flourished within the final half century and in no small means that is because of distinct, various and gifted folks, each on and off digital camera, making their voices heard,” she added. “The Edinburgh TV Competition has all the time embraced a passionate debate and for its 50th anniversary I’d like to listen to these voices rise to a loud, discursive, celebratory roar.”
Final 12 months’s chair was Amazon’s Harjeet Chhokar.
