{"id":273549,"date":"2025-07-19T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273549\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:05:44","slug":"tina-fey-and-charlie-brooker-added-to-edinburgh-tv-fest-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273549\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Fey and Charlie Brooker Added to Edinburgh TV Fest Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/tina-fey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tina-fey\" data-tag=\"tina-fey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tina Fey<\/a> is set to bring a sprinkling of Hollywood star power to the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/edinburgh-tv-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_edinburgh-tv-festival\" data-tag=\"edinburgh-tv-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh TV Festival<\/a> next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe award-winning multi-hyphenate has been confirmed as joining the small screen events in Scotland and will take part in a conversation with beloved Irish TV host Graham Norton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElsewhere, \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d creator <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/charlie-brooker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-brooker\" data-tag=\"charlie-brooker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Brooker<\/a> is set to take part in what\u2019s being billed as a \u201cplayful and provocative\u201d in conversation event, set to cover \u201ceverything from comedy, AI, evil product design and the TV shows that made him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStephen Lambert, CEO of prolific entertainment show producer Studio Lambert \u2014\u00a0behind the likes of \u201cThe Traitors\u201d \u201cGogglebox\u201d and \u201cSquid Game: The Challenge\u201d \u2014\u00a0will also attend a record a special edition of podcast The Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOther additions to this year\u2019s Edinburgh TV Festival include state of the industry conversations on issues such as YouTube\u2019s impact on TV and the scripted and unscripted funding crisis, alongside an \u201cAdolescence\u201d masterclass and a \u201cRival\u201d live script read. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeanwhile, the alternative Mactaggart lecture will be given by satirist, comedian, writer and actor Munya Chawawa, who will make the case for why broadcasters underestimate digital creatives at their peril and will issue a call to arms for creative risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs previously announced, former BBC News chief James Harding will deliver the keynote MacTaggart lecture. Harding, the founder of Tortoise Media and is now editor-in-chief of\u00a0The Observer newspaper, is set to \u201cexamine challenges to truth and trust in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlso Shonda Rhimes and Lenny Henry are also part of the lineup, with Rhimes set to receive the inaugural Edinburgh TV Festival fellowship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Edinburgh TV Festival runs Aug. 19 to 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tina Fey is set to bring a sprinkling of Hollywood star power to the Edinburgh TV Festival next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,2980,1102,102997,4884,712,27671,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-charlie-brooker","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-tina-fey","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114877452992335998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273549","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=273549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}