Billy Connolly will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award, while screenwriter Jack Thorne will deliver the MacTaggart lecture as the Edinburgh TV festival gets under way on Monday.
The first day of the virtual festival will also feature author Neil Gaiman in conversation with director Douglas MacKinnon.Thorne will draw attention to the "glaring problem" of the treatment of disabled people in the flagship session of the festival.Thorne, who has won five Baftas, has written for TV series including His Dark Materials, Kiri and The Virtues, and films including Enola Holmes, The Secret Garden and The Aeronauts.The 42-year-old also wrote the script for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, the Olivier and Tony award-winning play based on the.
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