Meera Syal To Deliver Edinburgh TV Festival Alternative MacTaggart – Deadline

Meera Syal is to ship the Different MacTaggart on the Edinburgh TV Pageant.

Syal additionally acquired the BAFTA Fellowship and has appeared within the likes of Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at Quantity 42 and The Cut up. She is going to quickly be seen in Acorn’s Mrs. Sindhu Investigates and Prime Video’s Wheel of Time.

“I’m so excited that the great Meera Syal has agreed to be this 12 months’s Different MacTaggart speaker,” mentioned Edinburgh Advisory Chair Kiran Nataraja. “As an icon who has at all times been on the forefront of the business, I do know her distinctive perspective will make for a captivating and energetic session.”

Syal added: “I’m delighted to be invited to talk as this 12 months’s Different MacTaggart and look ahead to sharing a few of these untold tales with the great Fatima Salaria.”e

The principle MacTaggart shall be delivered by Louis Theroux. Different periods confirmed in the present day embody with Banijay UK CEO Patrick Holland and Disney’s Liam Keelan. UK broadcasting heads will even take part and the great-and-the-good of the UK TV business is predicted to attend.