{"id":1065701,"date":"2026-07-03T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1065701\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:33:17","slug":"gary-lineker-amelia-dimoldenberg-to-speak-at-edinburgh-tv-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1065701\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker &#038; Amelia Dimoldenberg To Speak At Edinburgh TV Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gary-lineker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gary-lineker\" data-tag=\"gary-lineker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Lineker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amelia-dimoldenberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amelia-dimoldenberg\" data-tag=\"amelia-dimoldenberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amelia Dimoldenberg<\/a> are the two most high-profile speakers to be unveiled for the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/edinburgh-tv-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_edinburgh-tv-festival\" data-tag=\"edinburgh-tv-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh TV Festival<\/a> so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe former Match of the Day host, who is currently in New York presenting a daily Netflix World Cup special, will speak on the first day of the fest next month in conversation with Edinburgh chair Adam Hawkins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDimoldenberg, arguably the UK\u2019s best known creator who has interviewed some of the most famous Hollywood movie stars of our age, is appearing on the same day as Lineker. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLineker will discuss ambitions for his Goalhanger Entertainment indie while reflecting on a career that has most recently seen him <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/gary-lineker-slammed-cartoon-rat-video-antisemitic-trope-1236395444\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leave the BBC under a cloud<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDimoldenberg will \u201creflect on the craft she has been refining over the past ten years \u2013 from performance direction and casting, to the editorial architecture of an awkward beat.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore session announcements are to come for the fest, which will be the last in Edinburgh before the event relocates to Manchester. The annual MacTaggart lecture will be delivered by YouTube EMEA boss Pedro Pina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEdinburgh takes place August 25-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker and Amelia Dimoldenberg are the two most high-profile speakers to be unveiled for the Edinburgh TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1065702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[21408,748,1102,102997,191,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1065701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-amelia-dimoldenberg","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-gary-lineker","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116855597146518948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}