David Nevins is the Paramount Premium Group CEO & Chair. The annual Edinburgh TV Festival Worldwide Address will be delivered by David Nevins. Panels on football, Ukraine and public broadcasting are all part of the festival. Sara Payne, Sara’s mother, is also featured.
In conversation with former Sky Studios boss Jane Millichip, Nevins, who is also Chief Creative Officer for the streamer’s scripted series, will discuss the current scripted landscape, his experiences in maximizing creative ingenuity, talent relationships and IP. He will discuss whether streamers can be sustained from both a talent drain and PSB perspective.
Nevins worked for Image TV over a 30-year span. He also managed entertainment at Showtime. HomelAndandBillions.He still holds responsibility for the network in his current role.
The festival, which is chaired by Afua Hirsch this year and taking place August 24-26, has unveiled panels on public broadcasting with network and indie head honchos, along with a How Footballers Conquered Unscripted TV panel with former-footballers-turned-TV presenters Troy Deeney, Anton Ferdinand and Dion Dublin.
Journalists will discuss Covering the War in Ukraine. The true crime panel will feature Payne discussing the landmark British case. She will talk about how she used a television platform to tell the story and find her killer.
Ben Frow, Paramount UK Chief Content Officer, will be speaking about the topic. “the dark arts of [TV] scheduling.”
Rose Ayling Ellis, the deaf, is the festival’s keynote speaker.EastEndersActor who won Strictly Come DancingThe Alternative MacTaggart will be taken on.