The Edinburgh TV Festival has announced Adam Hawkins as the Festival’s Advisory Chair for 2026. Director of Documentary Series at Netflix, Hawkins will work with the Festival team to oversee the development of the programme and creative direction of this year’s Festival. Hawkins follows an esteemed list of industry figures who have taken on the […]
A genre-bending Welsh language opera film will premiere at the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 18th, ahead of its nationwide cinema release this autumn. Tanau’r Lloer / Fires of the Moon, commissioned by S4C and Channel 4, is inspired by scenes from the novel Un Nos Ola Leuad (‘One Moonlit Night’) by Caradog Prichard – a modern literary classic first published […]
UKTV has announced the commission of the new series, Guy Martin’s Proper Jobs (4×60’), for U&Dave and free streaming service, U. The four-part series is to be produced by North One and will air in 2025. No stranger to trying new things, Guy Martin’s Proper Jobs will see the motorcycle racer, truck fitter, part-time farmer, […]
Prime Video will launch writing duo Harry and Jack Williams’ new drama series The Assassin in the UK & Ireland. The series is produced by production company Two Brothers Pictures (The Tourist, Boat Story, Fleabag) in association with ZDF who is the German co-production partner, All3Media International, and Stan in Australia. Starring in the 6×60” […]
Anya Taylor-Joy is set to star as murderous Grace Bernard, protagonist extraordinaire in How To Kill Your Family, a Netflix series inspired by Bella Mackie’s best-selling novel of the same name. The eight parter, announced at Edinburgh TV Festival, will be a first production for Netflix from Sid Gentle Films (Killing Eve) with Emma Moran (Extraordinary) […]
Sky has announced a raft of new shows coming to its content slate, across Sky Original drama, comedy, entertainment, arts and factual programming. During the Sky ‘Spotlight’ panel at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, Zai Bennett, MD of Content, Sky UK & Ireland; Meghan Lyvers, Director of Original Drama, Sky Studios; Poppy Dixon, Director of […]
Access All Areas (AAA) is launching a new production company, co-led by learning disabled and autistic talent, that will focus on a three-part approach to improving learning disabled and neurodivergent representation in TV and film. This will coincide with a new push for inclusion by the TV Access Project (TAP) at a panel event at […]
The Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF), the UK’s television industry event by Screen Scotland, has announced that Director of Content Strategy and Planning at Channel 4, Kiran Nataraja, will be taking the helm as the Festival’s Advisory Chair for 2023. Having started out at the BBC, Nataraja has worked for Channel 4 since 2011, a period […]
Channel 4 and Prime Video have partnered to launch an examination of access and inclusion provision for disabled talent in the British TV industry. The Industry Access survey will be conducted on behalf of The TV Access Project (TAP), which was launched at the Edinburgh TV Festival to drive improvements in access and inclusion for disabled talent working in TV. The survey will be carried out […]
In the first of a regular series of surveys to test the health of the international TV industry, the TellyCast/ WorkShare Consulting Content Industry Monitor found that less than one in ten (9 per cent) of executives wish to return to full time, permanent office working following the pandemic. The results showed that the vast […]