ITV Studios has signed a new deal with France Télévisions, delivering a package of drama content to France Télévisions’ channels, including the thriller series The Gathering. From the producers of Line of Duty and Vigil, The Gathering (World Productions for Channel 4) was awarded Best Fiction Series, Best Actress and Best Actor at the Monte Carlo TV Festival in […]

ITV has acquired Welcome to Chippendales and Culprits from Disney Entertainment. Both series will be available to stream for free on ITVX later this year. Welcome to Chippendales tells the true story of Somen Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire – and let nothing stand in […]

Celebrated British game show Bullseye is returning to ITV, with cricketing legend Freddie Flintoff at the presenting helm. Bullseye is one of the UK’s most successful game shows, and in a new Christmas special each playing team will be made up of an amateur dart player, known as the ‘thrower’, and their team partner, the […]

ITV Studios and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) are partnering to create a Ninja Warrior FAST channel dedicated to programming from around the world. The deal is a first, both in terms of ITV Studios’ first FAST channel creation for third party IP as well as TBS’s first foray into FAST. Brokered by Bellon Entertainment […]

A record 37 broadcasters will showcase the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on October 6th live from ParisLongchamp Racecourse, seeing the global audience treble over a three-year period. HBA Media, France Galop’s global horse racing distribution partner, has secured a record number of international broadcasters for the 103rd running of the famous fixture through […]

ITV Studios has appointed Katie Buchanan as EVP Americas, Global Partnerships. She joins from A+E Networks, having also held a variety of Programming Strategy and Acquisitions roles at NBCUniversal and Viacom, she will report to EVP Global Sales & Commercial Strategy, Tom Clark in London. Buchanan will be responsible for driving revenue growth and maximising […]

Premiership Rugby and ITV have agreed a two-year extension to the rights deal which sees seven Gallagher Premiership Rugby matches, including the Final, broadcast free-to-air. The new deal also sees a rebranded highlights show – Gallagher Premiership Unleashed – air on Wednesday nights to round-up all the thrills of the 2024/25 Gallagher Premiership Rugby season. […]

ITV’s research titled Hey Hunni: the ultimate guide to Hun Culture has explored the phenomenon of Hun Culture using semiotic, qualitative and comms planning techniques and identifies the audience opportunities for brands. Hun Culture is a form of entertainment that centres around the persona of ‘hun’, a frivolous, camp and deeply relatable personality that is […]

Adverts by new-to-TV businesses are getting better and more effective, according to research from System1 and ITV. Break Through, a report into how ‘new-to-TV’ businesses can most effectively take advantage of TV advertising, analysed 500 adverts from 169 businesses that had advertised on ITV. All the ads aired between 2020 and 2024, and none of […]

ITV Studios has announced a flurry of new sales across the US, Latin America and Canada, including the provocative drama Fifteen-Love. In the US and Canada, World Productions’ Fifteen-Love, starring Aiden Turner and Ella Lily Hyland, has sold to and is currently streaming on AMC Networks’ Sundance Now. In addition, SRC in French Canada has […]