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Will.i.am, The Handmaid’s Story producer Warren Littlefield and Clarkson’s Farm EP Andy Wilman will converse at this yr’s Edinburgh TV Competition.
Grammy-winning music artist and The Voice coach Will.i.am shall be a headline speaker in a brand new Frontiers strand that may deliver collectively the normal TV sector with leaders from others, equivalent to podcasting, tech and digital.
He shall be in dialog with Dr Alex Connock, the TV-producer, Oxford College lecturer and AI skilled. Will.i.am is the founder and CEO of FYI, a Net 3.0 AI platform geared toward harnessing the know-how for artistic manufacturing. The pair will focus on the way forward for creativity and what position AI will play in content material creation, distribution and viewers engagement.
Littlefield, the previous community chief who oversaw the creation of NBC’s ‘Should See TV’ period, will focus on his profession on each side of the commissioning line. After overseeing the event of exhibits equivalent to Mates, Seinfeld, ER and Cheers, he turned an indie producer on exhibits equivalent to The Handmaid’s Story, Fargo and Dopesick, and is making the upcoming Hulu drama about Amanda Knox, which counts Knox and Monica Lewinsky nor co-producers.
Littlefield will speak about how his profession has mirrored many shifts within the business, the present state of scripted drama, expertise relationships and the place the subsequent large exhibits will come from.
Wilmna, government producer of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm, shall be in dialog with Nutopia CEO Jane Root, who greenlit his reboot of Prime Gear whereas Controller of BBC Two again within the early 2000s. With The Grand Tour coming to an finish, Jeremy Clarkson’s right-hand man will focus on creativity, expertise wrangling and the secrets and techniques of success.
The bulletins are the primary made for this yr’s pageant, which is the primary since Rowan Woods turned Artistic Director.
“It is such an thrilling second for me to have the ability to unveil our first session bulletins for the 2024 Competition,” stated Woods. “They trace at three of our key priorities this yr: increasing our worldwide programming, reflecting the more and more porous boundaries between TV and different sectors and the artistic alternatives this brings, and celebrating the success and influence of UK expertise and program making. We’ve got tons extra information to share within the coming weeks and look ahead to convening the business in Edinburgh in August to mirror on a difficult yr and chart a means ahead.”
This yr’s pageant runs from Tuesday August 20-Friday August 23.
Will.i.am & Warren Littlefield Set For Edinburgh TV Competition
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