EXTERMINATE! Doctor Who fans are sure to be out in force at this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival with the announcement that award-winning writer, Steven Moffat will be speaking at the Festival this weekend.
Moffat is appearing in place of Russell T Davies, who he recently succeeded as executive producer and lead writer for Doctor Who, and who had to pull out of the event.
Moffat, who earlier this week received his third consecutive Hugo Award for be
st short-form drama for the Doctor Who episode Blink, will appear at the event on Saturday at 2pm in A Conversation with Steven Moffat.
The Edinburgh International Television Festival runs from Friday to Sunday and will include a Question Time: Edinburgh Special at 10am on Sunday at the EICC.
King contest will have city all shook upCALLING All McElvis's. For the last two days of the Festival, residents and visitors alike are being invited to don their blue suede shoes and pay tribute to the undisputed king of rock and roll.
The organisers of the InvAsian Festival, are holding an Elvis Idol competition on Sunday and Monday, the winner of which will star on Edinburgh's Talk 107 Breakfast Show as well as receive a break to the luxurious Glenmoriston Town House Hotel in Inverness. Judging the competition will be Sal Bashir, the world's only British-born Muslim Elvis tribute artist of Pakistani origin, Paul Hyu, the world's only British Elvis originally from China and Scott Wilson, Breakfast Show host from Talk 107. Judges will use a number of criteria to decide on the winner including the best sequined jumpsuit, pelvic gyrations and, of course, the ability to sing like the King.
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