The Edinburgh TV Competition has unveiled will.i.am and producer Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Story, Fargo, Dopesick) as first big-name audio system for its 2024 version this summer season.
Clarkson’s Farm government producer Andy Wilman may even seem on the forty ninth Edinburgh TV Competition in August.
“The audio system additionally feed into two new areas of growth which have been launched to take a look at the way forward for the business in a sensible and provoking means,” organizers stated. In an addition to the common Highlight Classes, panel discussions and program masterclasses in Edinburgh, new artistic director Rowan Woods is trying to increase the occasion’s worldwide focus and in addition launching a brand new strand referred to as Frontiers, which “celebrates creativity, convergence and new types of storytelling.”
In its first yr, the Frontiers strand will function will.i.am in dialog with Alex Connock, an educational in media and synthetic intelligence at Oxford College, about the way forward for creativity and what position AI will play in it. “Along with his ground-breaking work because the founder and CEO of FYI, a trailblazing internet 3.0 AI artistic productiveness platform, will.i.am is uniquely positioned to supply invaluable insights into AI’s affect on content material creation, distribution and viewers engagement,” organizers stated.
Littlefield, the previous community chief and architect of NBC’s “Should See TV” period, growing and overseeing such collection as Associates, Seinfeld, ER and Cheers, might be talking out in Edinburgh throughout an “In Dialog” session. “Now forging a brand new profession as a producer of high-end drama, Littlefield is behind multi-Emmy and Peabody Award-winning exhibits like The Handmaid’s Story, Fargo, Dopesick, The Outdated Man, and the forthcoming Amanda Knox drama co-produced by Knox and Monica Lewinsky,” the Edinburgh workforce highlighted. “Littlefield’s profession has mirrored lots of the massive shifts within the business and he might be discussing the evolutions, the present state of scripted drama, expertise relationships and the place the following massive exhibits will come from.”
Mentioned Woods: “It’s such an thrilling second for me to have the ability to unveil our first session bulletins for the 2024 pageant. 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 affect of U.Ok. expertise and program-making.”
The Edinburgh TV Competition takes place Aug. 20-23.