The 2020 edition of the Edinburgh TV Festival, the U.K.'s biggest TV conference, due to take place in August, has been canceled as a physical event due to the coronavirus and is set to be "reimagined online," according to organizers.
The festival team said this year's digital offerings were "designed to support and connect the television community in light of what has become a very challenging year" and would still include the well-established event's main elements, including the keynote MacTaggart Lecture, the session with the U.K.
broadcaster controllers and awards, together with its various talent schemes. “We have decided that, in the best interests of everyone we would seek to bring together, educate and support, that we will not be.