EXCLUSIVE: Streaming executives won’t 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 business is now public however Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Highlight periods don’t function.
Highlight periods, which was referred to as Controller Periods, see UK commissioners take to the stage for an hour or so to speak upcoming content material, technique and – generally – take difficult questions from the viewers of press and producers. They have an inclination to additionally use the chance to unveil splashy new exhibits. The Spotlights have been a function of the Edinburgh TV Fest for 50 years with British broadcasters participating yearly. As they burrowed deeper into the UK business, streamers had begun internet hosting Spotlights lately.
Deadline is instructed that the streamer spotlights are on non permanent hiatus and might 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 exhibits 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 business that might be closed to press, we perceive. Final yr, she used her Highlight session to tackle the Child Reindeer controversy.
This yr’s Edinburgh is the competition’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.
