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Organizers said on Wednesday the inaugural
three-day Tribeca TV Festival will take place on Sept. 22-24 in
New York, and is aimed at bringing new shows and returning
favorites to the public.
The lineup for the festival includes screenings and celebrity
talks for the return of comedy "Will & Grace," the upcoming
season premieres of dramas "Queen Sugar," "Designated Survivor"
and "Gotham," and the world premiere of "Look But With Love," a
virtual reality series about life in Pakistan.
More than 400 scripted TV shows are currently produced every
year in the United States across traditional broadcast and cable
networks and services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, leading
to what has been dubbed a golden age of television.
"Ten years ago we wouldn't have needed a TV festival. Now, with
the change in the TV landscape, both the quality and quantity of
shows, it makes sense," actor Robert De Niro, who co-founded the
Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 to rejuvenate lower Manhattan,
said in a statement.
De Niro is among a plethora of Oscar-winning stars, including
Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Michael Douglas who are
making waves on the small screen.
De Niro is competing in September for his first Emmy Award for
his role as disgraced financier Bernard Madoff in HBO television
film "The Wizard of Lies."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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