Tomorrow Studios, an ITV Studios partnership, has announced a first-look deal with Big Light Productions, the London-based production company founded by Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning producer and writer Frank Spotnitz (Leonardo, Medici, The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle). This deal follows recent news of a first-look deal for Tomorrow Studios with Julia […]
DAZN Group, the sports entertainment company, has announced agreements to sub-license the rights to the 2022 UEFA Women’s Champions League final to TV broadcasters worldwide. These agreements include ITV in the UK & Ireland, TF1 in France, RTVE and TV3 in Spain, RTBF in Belgium, SVT Sweden, plus NRK Norway, Sport5 Israel and RUV Iceland, […]
Overall, the UK’s main commercial broadcaster ITV was satisfied with its Q1 results, which were in line with expectations. Q1 revenues grew 23 per cent year-on-year to £458 million (€536m), with total advertising revenues rising 16 per cent to £468 million, as expected, and digital revenues increasing 24 per cent to £82 million. Within the […]
ITV had a triumphant evening at the BAFTA Television Awards on May 8th with a total of seven awards across a range of programming categories – the highest awards total of the night for any channel or streamer. The wins included honours for some of ITV’s most popular shows, all produced by ITV Studios labels. […]
ITN has announced that Rachel Corp has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer. Corp is currently Editor of ITV News, produced by ITN, where she has overall responsibility for the vision, strategy and direction for all of ITV’s award-winning national news programmes and digital output, as well as overseeing ITV News London, ITV […]
After the success of the first series, The Masked Dancer is back as the celebrity cast attempts to baffle and bamboozle the panel and viewers with their fancy footwork and dance moves whilst covered from head to toe in extravagant and elaborate costumes. This series footballing legend Peter Crouch will be hoping he can hit […]
New cultural media brand W00 – from the team behind VICE, i-D, Boiler Room and LADbible – has been backed in a long-term partnership by ITV’s Studio 55 initiative, which invests in business ideas aimed specifically at younger audiences Woo says its purpose is to “redefine wellness for an entire generation, via social channels, podcasts, […]
The UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport says that TV and radio audiences will enjoy a new golden age of programming as the government updates decades-old broadcasting regulations. The government plans to pursue a change of ownership of Channel 4 to give it the tools it needs to succeed in the future as […]
ITV Studios America has announced executive team promotions for Anuj Goyal being elevated to Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs and Neil Forcadela to Vice President, Production Finance, as well as the hire of Robert Sorkin as Vice President, Business Development and Strategy. The announcement comes following news of ITV Studios America producing FRANKLIN, starring […]
The popular, feel-good format, Celebrity Karaoke Club, is back for another helping of sing-along hits, showbiz gossip and epic celebrity performances. With this new series, produced by Universal International Studios’ Monkey, comes a new lineup of famous faces taking to the stage to belt out their favourite pop anthems. This year news of the karaoke […]