Super duper

BBC television boss Danny Cohen is going to have a busy couple of days at the Edinburgh Television Festival.

First he has to cover for BBC2 Controller Kim Shillinglaw, in a session with Dermot Murnaghan, on her plans for the channel. There will doubtlessly be questions about the Cohen approach to hugging, and a hunt for more detail on Kim's memorable utterance "Ten o'clock is a place where BBC2 should show its knickers a bit." (Kim's absence also means that Cassian Harrison, not technically a Controller, gets a grilling on BBC4)

That's Thursday. Friday sees an unusually stellar panel on commissioning - Cohen, Peter Fincham from ITV, Jay Hunt from C4, Ben Frow from C5, Stuart Murphy from Sky, chaired by the self-effacing Alex Graham who set up indie Wall to Wall, and probably now keeps an eye on the Time Warner share price.

In the afternoon, Danny is back for a panel entitled "BBC: The New Super Indie" where he will lock swords with John McVay from PACT, Jane Turton from All3Media (now owned by Discovery and Liberty Global) and get support from Pat Younge, once of the BBC and Discovery, who claims he thought of the idea of nestling BBC TV Production in Worldwide in the first place, in order to attract real talent and pay real wages.  There may be interesting questions from the floor.