EXCLUSIVE: Streaming executives is not going to face their conventional grilling on the Edinburgh TV Pageant Highlight periods this yr.
The total line-up for this yr’s annual gathering of the great-and-the-good of the UK TV trade is now public however Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Highlight periods don’t characteristic.
Highlight periods, which was known as Controller Classes, see UK commissioners take to the stage for an hour or so to speak upcoming content material, technique and – typically – take difficult questions from the viewers of press and producers. They have a tendency to additionally use the chance to unveil splashy new reveals. The Spotlights have been a characteristic of the Edinburgh TV Fest for 50 years with British broadcasters participating yearly. As they burrowed deeper into the UK trade, streamers had begun internet hosting Spotlights lately.
Deadline is instructed that the streamer spotlights are on non permanent hiatus and can be again subsequent yr. The streamers identified that they continue to be Edinburgh companions and are nonetheless concerned with various periods. Netflix, Amazon and Disney are internet hosting masterclasses for hit reveals Adolescence, Final One Laughing UK and Rivals respectively that includes senior commissioners and expertise. Netflix UK chief Anne Mensah, in the meantime, will host a Q&A for younger folks within the trade that can be closed to press, we perceive. Final yr, she used her Highlight session to handle the Child Reindeer controversy.
This yr’s Edinburgh is the pageant’s fiftieth anniversary and has attracted some severe star energy. The ultimate day options talks from Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Charlie Brooker and Stephen Lambert. In the meantime, Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes is being given the inaugural Edinburgh Fellowship Award.
