The Aintree Grand National is expected to have an earlier start time in 2024, following safety concerns surrounding the race. The Grand National is arguably the world’s most famous horse race, capturing the imagination of millions of bettors and casual viewers worldwide. It’s one of the main races where the bookmakers tout for custom with […]

ITV has commissioned UK-based Plimsoll Productions (Super/Natural, A Bug’s Life), an ITV Studios company internationally renowned for its hallmark natural history and factual entertainment content, to produce a new entertainment and wildlife crossover format SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters. The show will see the expertise of ITV Entertainment combined with the natural history legacy of Plimsoll […]

BritBox, the ad-free subscription streaming service created by the BBC and ITV, has started a distribution partnership with Elisa Viihde offering BritBox’s ad-free subscription streaming service on platform, becoming the third platform in Finland to offer the service. BritBox offers Finnish customers thousands of hours of premium British content, including BritBox Originals such as Irvine […]

The Voice UK will return to ITV1, STV, ITVX and STV Player later this year with three new coaches joining will.i.am and Sir Tom Jones and host Emma Willis on the hunt for a musical superstar. Grammy Award winner and internationally acclaimed artist LeAnn Rimes joins the coaching line up, and making The Voice UK history, Tom Fletcher […]

ITV has confirmed the new Head of News for ITV West Country will be Nimesh Joshi, who is currently Programme and Digital Editor at ITV Central. Joshi has been in a leadership role within ITV News for more than a decade, with roles including Deputy Head of News at West Country in 2016 before becoming […]

Veg Power, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky Media have announced that their Eat Them To Defeat Them campaign is returning to TV screens and primary schools across the UK in mid-February. Now in its sixth year, the campaign, originally launched by ITV and Veg Power and proven to increase children’s vegetable consumption, aims to build […]

January 2024 has become ITV’s biggest ever month for streams on ITVX.  There were 315 million streams on the platform throughout the month, more than any other month on ITVX or previously on ITV Hub. January 28th was the biggest single day for both the number of streams (14.8 million) and streaming hours (6.1 million) […]

ITV has announced a deal with Amazon MGM Studios Distribution to make 25 James Bond movies available to ITV viewers via linear channels and catch-up on ITVX. The deal marks the first time that the Bond films have been available via an AVoD streaming platform in the UK, which will see each film available to […]

ITV has announced that Tom Houser – formerly a Creative Director at the BBC and Uncommon London – will join ITV Creative as Executive Creative Director in March. Along with Niki Garner, Director of ITV Creative, he’ll be part of the leadership team of ITV’s in-house creative agency. Houser has previously led accounts for British […]

During AEW Dynamite from the Footprint Center in Phoenix on February 7th, AEW CEO Tony Khan announced that the promotion will return to Boston on March 13th, at TD Garden with AEW Dynamite: Big Business, live on TBS in the US, and available later the same week on ITV in the UK. The announcement marks […]