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Vila joins ITV Studios Iberia as Creative Director

Nathalie Garcia, Managing Director of the recently formed/launched ITV Studios Iberia, has announced that Miguel Vila has been appointed as the company’s Creative Director, Non-Scripted. As the exclusive home of ITV Studios’ formats in Spain, Miguel will creatively oversee the production of The Voice (La Voz), The Voice Kids (La Voz Kids) and The Chase […]

February 1, 2024

ITV Studios, Fusebox renew deal for Love Island game

ITV Studios and Fusebox Games, a mobile game developer in interactive fiction, gave announced a renewed deal to expand the mobile game Love Island The Game for another three years. Love Island The Game was first launched in summer 2018 and now hits its seventh season. With over 25 million downloads worldwide, the game has […]

January 26, 2024

FilmRise expands ITV Studios deal

FilmRise, the US-based film, television studio and streaming network, and ITV Studios have expanded their longstanding relationship for over 5,000 hours of programming containing 3,000 hours of newly added content of British dramas both classic and new and many never before made available to stream the US. The deal includes a renewal of Gordan Ramsay’s […]

January 16, 2024

Woldberg named MD at ITV Studios Netherlands

ITV Studios has announces thed appointment of Laurens Woldberg as Managing Director of ITV Studios Netherlands, producer of Oogappels (Loved Ones), the winner of the prestigious Golden Televizier-Ring 2023, as well as Love Island Netherlands & Belgium, Het Perfecte Plaatje (The Perfect Picture), Oh Wat Een Jaar (A year to Remember) and Married at first Sight. Laurens joins the production house from […]

December 12, 2023

ITV’s Diversity Commissioning Fund supports diverse writers

Having launched earlier this year, ITV has revealed how its Diversity Commissioning Fund has generated multiple new schemes to help support diverse writers within TV production. ITV’s Diversity Commissioning Fund has reserved £80 million of the content commissioning budget over the next three years to help drive change towards racial equity and disability equity, in […]

November 23, 2023

ITV reports growth in streaming, Studios

ITV has reported total revenue up 1 per cent at £2.97 billion (€3.4bn) in the first nine months of 2023 to September 30th, with growth in ITV Studios and M&E digital revenues offsetting the decline in linear advertising revenue. Total external revenue was flat at £2.53 billion. Carolyn McCall, ITV Chief Executive, commented: “ITV continues […]

November 8, 2023

BBC orders Wilderness with Simon Reeve

Adventurer Simon Reeve journeys deep into the heart of some of Earth’s last great wild areas in a new series for the BBC Two and iPlayer: Wilderness with Simon Reeve.  The series will air in 2024. On our increasingly crowded planet, there are still a few remote areas where nature has the upper hand: the […]

October 18, 2023

ITV Studios’ Cattleya writers form Dedalus prodco

Building on their long-standing partnership marked by titles such as Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero, The Immortal and Django, Cattleya – part of ITV Studios – and the writers Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli are to co-found a new production company. Dedalus, as it is to be called, is already working on two new projects: Everything We Ever […]

October 16, 2023

The Voice hits over 150 global commissions

ITV Studios format The Voice has reached a milestone with a combined number of over 150 adaptations of the popular talent show and its spin-offs airing in countries all over the world. Since its premiere in The Netherlands in 2010, nineteen countries have aired ten seasons or more, with NBC in the US the forerunner […]

October 16, 2023

Garcia heads ITV Studios Iberia

ITV Studios has announced that entertainment executive Nathalie Garcia is joining its international production group as Managing Director of ITV Studios Iberia, effective November 1st. The new entity will be the exclusive home of ITV Studios’ formats in Spain such as The Voice (La Voz), The Voice Kids (La Voz Kids) and The Chase (El […]

October 9, 2023