In 2008 the largest comedy venues on the Edinburgh Fringe launched as a festival within a festival, labelled the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

Alongside these major festivals, there is also the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival ( moved to June from 2008 ), the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

On 18 February 2008, Fayed accused The Duke of Edinburgh and The Prince of Wales of killing Diana and Dodi because the Prince was furious that Diana was dating Dodi.

Encounters at the End of the World won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Herzog's first nomination.

* A collection of 35 broadsheet poems of McGonagall, the majority signed by him, was bought for £ 6, 600 ( including commission ) from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh auctionneers, on 16 May 2008 .< ref >

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

In May 2008, Goodall controversially described Edinburgh Zoo's new primate enclosure as a " wonderful facility " where monkeys " are probably better off those living in the wild in an area like Budongo, where one in six gets caught in a wire snare, and countries like Congo, where chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas are shot for food commercially.

* Venn, Couze " Clash of Civilisations ", in Prem Poddar et al., Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures — Continental Europe and its Empires, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures — Continental Europe and its Colonies, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2008.

The building opened for teaching in October 2008, with an official opening by Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on 5 November 2008.

Several bouts of severe thunderstorm activity and heavy rainfall affected the Edinburgh area in early June 2008.

The Edinburgh Academy is now a co-educational day school, boarding having ceased and the transition to co-education having been completed in 2008.

* Edinburgh International Film Festival or EIFF ( 1947 ) was traditionally held in August but, from 2008 is being held in late June.

* Edinburgh Comedy Festival ( 2008 )*-The comedy programmes from Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly — part of the Edinburgh Fringe.

The exhibition was hosted at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh between December 3, 2008 and February 15, 2009.

* Edinburgh University Honorary Degree ( 24 June 2008 )

Her first major retrospective 20 Years was held in Edinburgh 2008, and toured Europe until 2009.

* 7 markers, one for each of the hotel chains: American, Continental, Festival, Imperial, Luxor ( or Sackson in the 2008 version ), Tower, and Worldwide.

Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

* Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival for Standard Operating Procedure

However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

The Festival of Flanders had its 50th celebration in 2008.

The Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival is held regularly ; in 2008 it was hosted by China.

On May 22 Kid Rock's June 8, 2008 concert at Germany's Rock AM Festival was aired on every MTV affiliate around the world on their debut show " World Stage ".

At the 2008 Download Festival Kid Rock was meant to appear between Seether and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute.

It has been suggested that his no-show at the Download Festival 2008 was due to a broken heart.

In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival.

Matt Kelland of Short Fuze ( left ) and Keith Halper of Kuma Reality Games at the 2008 Machinima Film Festival with the Mackie award for Best Technical Achievement

Mars Festival 2008 was smaller due to the efforts being made in other projects, particularly the Polish URC rover, named Skarabeusz.

In May 2008, she was given a tribute by Indian Film Festival at Los Angeles.

This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20, 000 people.

Ron Carter in Kharkiv, Ukraine taking part in the annual Jazz Festival ( 23rd March 2008 )

In 2008, Fringe debuted to high ratings and critical acclaim during its first season on Tuesdays ; though its viewership declined through its run, the series has developed a large loyal fanbase / cult following that had turned the show into a cult television show.

2008 Postclassic Maya Settlement on the Rural Urban Fringe of Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico.

Milford was fictitiously featured in a 2008 episode of the Fox television series Fringe.

Rivers performing in her show at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The mainstage of the Fringe Festival in Old Market Square of the Exchange District, 2008

He also created Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ) and co-created Lost ( 2004 – 2010 ), Fringe ( 2008 – present ), Undercovers ( 2010 ) and produced the television series Person of Interest ( 2011 – present ), Alcatraz ( 2012 ) and Revolution ( 2012 – present ).

In 2008, he co-created, executive produced, and co-wrote ( along with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ) the FOX science-fiction series Fringe, for which he composed the theme music for as well.

Beginning in 2008, Brown starred as Nina Sharp in the Fox television series Fringe.

In 2008 the Fringe faced the biggest crisis in its history when the computerised ticketing system failed.

The 2008 Fringe marked the first time that comedy has made up the largest category of entertainment.

Started by Deborah Pearson in 2007, and continuing in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, under the co-directorship of Andy Field and Deborah Pearson, a primary " Fringe of the Fringe " festival is the,

In 2008 " The Fringe of Toronto " launched a second festival called " The Next Stage Festival " ( NSTF ) which takes place annually in January.

* Ticket sales equalled 2008 ’ s Fringe with over 187, 000 tickets sold through FringeTIX and other national ticketing partners ( which doesn ’ t include tickets sold at the doors of 259 venues to walk-up Fringe-goers ).

A large-scale stage production was produced by The Rival Theatre Company at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

* " The Dreamscape ", a 2008 first-season episode of Fringe

In 2008, it had its New York premiere as part of the New York International Fringe Festival ; the cast included Ryan Foy ( a great-great grandson of Eddie Foy Sr. and grandson of Irving Foy ), who works as an actor today.

The Cambridge Medics Revue, St George's Medics Revue, and Birmingham Medics Revues all performed at the 2008 Fringe Festival.

The BSMS Medic Revue has performed sell out shows in the Brighton Fringe Festival since 2008.

He co-produced Lucky You, the Carl Hiassen bestseller that is premiered as a theatre production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008.

During the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Unilever sponsored a musical directed by David Sant, and created by advertising agency Mother, set in a Pot Noodle factory.