Advanced Television

itv

ITV Studios launching 4 FAST channels on Roku

Speaking at Content London, Graham Haigh, EVP Digital, Global Partnerships and COO of upcoming new label Zoo 55, announced that ITV Studios will launch The Graham Norton Show Channel on the Roku Channel in the US and Canada, along with three further new FAST channels. The Graham Norton Show channel – featuring running episodes of […]

December 5, 2024

ITVX: Over 6bn streams in 2 years

ITVX turns two on December 8th and will mark the occasion with a host of audience records. ITV says its streaming service has outpaced all other major streaming platforms in terms of growth in viewer hours since its launch – with a 35 per cent growth in viewer hours in two years, ahead of BBC […]

December 4, 2024

ITV, Formula E sign new broadcast deal

Formula E and ITV have announced a new free-to-air broadcast deal for the UK and Ireland, with all 16 E-Prix and Qualifying sessions for Season 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship to be shown live on ITV4 and ITVX As the series’ new free-to-air home for the UK, the broadcaster will also […]

November 29, 2024

STV “in line” despite ad slump

STV Group, in a trading update, has reported that performance remains “in line with market expectations, despite ongoing weakness in the linear TV advertising and commissioning markets”. The Scottish broadcaster says it continues to trade well, winning commissions despite constrained budgets and delivering for its customers in a continued inflationary environment. The forward orderbook sits […]

November 26, 2024

ITV suitors named

A number of suitors have been studying the merits of a takeover bid for ITV, the UK’s dominant terrestrial commercial broadcaster, after a prolonged period of share price weakness and renewed questions about its long-term strategic outlook. Sky News reports that, in recent weeks, an array of “possible bidders” have held early-stage discussions about teaming […]

November 25, 2024

Dagnell named ITV’s Director of News

ITV has announced that Editor of ITV Network News, Andrew Dagnell, has been promoted to lead news and current affairs content across the whole of ITV, reporting to Kevin Lygo. He succeeds long-standing Director of News and Current Affairs Michael Jermey, who will leave ITV at the end of the year. Lygo commented: “I am […]

November 25, 2024

ITV: 8m watch return of I’m A Celebrity…

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! achieved the biggest ITV overnight audience of the year outside of sport, as it returned with a peak audience of 8 million viewers on November 17th. From 9pm – 10:45pm, the show averaged 7 million viewers across all devices. The show also achieved an 82 per cent share […]

November 18, 2024

Big Brother hits 96m streams on ITVX; more coming

ITV has announced that Big Brother (produced by Initial, part of Banijay UK) will return for a third season in 2025 following a second season of Celebrity Big Brother set to air in spring, marking 25 years of Big Brother in the UK. The channel’s second instalment of the original reality format is set to […]

November 15, 2024

ITVX commissions Transaction series

ITVX has commissioned Transaction, a comedy series from Big Talk Studios, created by and starring comedy performer Jordan Gray. Currently filming in Hartlepool, the workplace comedy also stars Nick Frost, Doon Mackichan,Thomas Gray and Francesca Mills. Gray stars as Liv, a transgender egomaniac, causing havoc in the strange world of the supermarket nightshift. Having been […]

November 15, 2024

ITV licenses Wagatha doc from Disney

ITV has licensed Disney+ original, Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, from Disney Entertainment as the broadcaster readies to launch a new season of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, which features Rooney as a contestant In Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, Rooney reveals all as the documentary looks at the libel case […]

November 13, 2024By Nik Roseveare