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Edinburgh TV Festival Advisory Chair On Staging A Pandemic-Era Event: “We’ve Got A Four-Day TV Channel Taking Over The Industry”
Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Edinburgh TV Festival’s advisory chair Patrick Holland has said that this year’s event has been transformed into a popup television channel after the industry’s annual trip to Scotland was scotched by the coronavirus pandemic.Holland, whose day job is running BBC Two and BBC Four, said he and the festival’s full-time team have curated a four-day event in the same way he shapes the schedules of the channels he oversees. Sessions will ebb and flow between “stimulation, excitement, provocation, and brilliant talent,” while there will be continuity announcers of sorts to ensure the Edinburgh feed never goes dark.