Will.i.am, The Handmaid’s Story producer Warren Littlefield and Clarkson’s Farm EP Andy Wilman will communicate at this yr’s Edinburgh TV Competition.
Grammy-winning music artist and The Voice coach Will.i.am will probably be a headline speaker in a brand new Frontiers strand that may deliver collectively the standard TV sector with leaders from others, akin to podcasting, tech and digital.
He will probably be in dialog with Dr Alex Connock, the TV-producer, Oxford College lecturer and AI knowledgeable. Will.i.am is the founder and CEO of FYI, a Net 3.0 AI platform aimed toward harnessing the expertise for inventive manufacturing. The pair will talk about the way forward for creativity and what function 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 talk about his profession on either side of the commissioning line. After overseeing the event of reveals akin to Pals, Seinfeld, ER and Cheers, he grew to become an indie producer on reveals akin to The Handmaid’s Story, Fargo and Dopesick, and is making the upcoming Hulu drama about Amanda Knox, which counts Knox and Monica Lewinsky as 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 huge reveals will come from.
Wilmna, govt producer of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm, will probably be in dialog with Nutopia CEO Jane Root, who greenlit his reboot of High 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 talk about 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 grew to become Artistic Director.
“It’s such an thrilling second for me to have the ability to unveil our first session bulletins for the 2024 Competition,” mentioned 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 inventive alternatives this brings, and celebrating the success and influence of UK expertise and programme making. We’ve got heaps extra information to share within the coming weeks and stay up for convening the business in Edinburgh in August to replicate on a difficult yr and chart a approach ahead.”
This yr’s pageant runs from Tuesday August 20-Friday 23 August.