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AEW: All In London sets multiple records

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has announced that the pay-per-view event AEW: All In London on August 27th set multiple records across the professional wrestling industry. The event, which was broadcast worldwide, saw 81,035 fans from more than 70 countries converge on Wembley Stadium in London, marking the largest crowd in history to ever attend a […]

August 29, 2023By Nik Roseveare

ITV new commissions with Adam Lambert, Kylie Minogue

ITV1, ITVX and Lifted Entertainment (part of ITV Studios) have announced two new commissions: Loud: An Adam Lambert Documentary and An Audience with Kylie. Loud: An Adam Lambert Documentary (working title) is a 60 minute documentary where audiences will see Adam exploring the history of Queer artists in the music industry. Superstar and Grammy nominated […]

August 29, 2023

ITVX hits 2bn streams

ITVX has announced it has reached two billion streams since launch (in December 2022). Last year was ITV’s previous most successful year for streaming with 1.9 billion streams across the whole 12 months. ITVX reached 1 billion streams on April 9th this year. From January to June this year, ITVX attracted more viewers with monthly […]

August 25, 2023

ITV announces The Fortune Hotel

ITV1 and ITVX have announced a high-octane new reality entertainment event, The Fortune Hotel, launching in 2024. Produced by Tuesday’s Child exclusively for ITV and STV, the 8 x 60’ prime-time series will invite viewers into a luxury Caribbean resort filled with glamour, opulence and deception… Hosted by Stephen Mangan, 10 pairs of contestants will […]

August 23, 2023

CITV channel to shutter in September

ITV has announced that its children’s TV channel CITV will close next month to make way for ITVX Kids, the children’s service on the ITVX streaming platform which launched earlier this summer. ITV told Sky News: “As a consequence of this new streaming approach and responding to the changing ways children and their parents are […]

August 21, 2023

ITV commission Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours

ITV has announced a new entertainment commission hosted by double BAFTA award winning broadcaster, artist and TV chef Big Zuu. Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours will air on ITV1 and ITVX in 2024 and is co-produced by Twofour and Zuu’s new TV production label Big Productions. In this new six part series the multi-hyphenate Big Zuu will take both viewers and […]

August 17, 2023

ITV Studios becomes Associate Member of TAP

ITV Studios has become an Associate Member of the TV Access Project (TAP), as part of its wider commitment to make the TV industry more accessible for Disabled talent. In addition, Bethany Matthews has been appointed as ITV Studios’ first in-house Access Coordinator. The appointment of Matthews as Access Coordinator will help to ensure that […]

August 16, 2023

ITV invests in Flarin

ITV has announced its third 2023 deal as part of its Media for Equity portfolio, in pain relief brand Flarin – its first consumer healthcare investment to date. As part of ITV Adventures Invest, its Media for Equity investment fund, ITV has agreed to invest up to £5 million of advertising inventory across ITV’s channels […]

August 15, 2023

Study: Women’s World Cup outscores Men’s for ad appeal

System1, the creative effectiveness platform, has revealed the top-ranking ads celebrating the FIFA Women’s World Cup and how the creative compares to the ads aired during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.    System1’s Test Your Ad platform predicts the short- and long-term commercial impact of ads by measuring viewers’ second-by-second emotional responses to creative. […]

August 14, 2023

BBC, ITV Women’s World Cup last-16 picks announced

The BBC will broadcast England’s last-16 match against Nigeria, at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, live on BBC One on August 7th at 8.30am. Fans can also listen to the Lionesses’ knockout game across BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds Audiences can also watch four other Round of 16 fixtures on BBC TV and […]

August 4, 2023By Nik Roseveare