Georgia Brown, the director of European originals at Amazon Studios, is to become the advisory chair of the 2021 Edinburgh TV Festival.Brown is the first executive from a streaming company to take up the position, from which she will set the agenda and tone of the television biz’s annual gathering in Scotland.The festival is planning a “hybrid” event this August after moving entirely online in 2020 due to the pandemic.
A spokesman declined to offer further detail on what this will involve and whether physical events will take place in Edinburgh.Accelerating Change will be the theme of the fest, with sessions reflecting on seismic shifts in the industry, including fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and commitments to diversity.Brown
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