Global sales of British TV shows in 2020/21 suffered a small reduction of 3.3 per cent to £1.42 billion (€1.66bn), independent producers’ trade body Pact’s TV Exports report reveals. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic affecting production in the UK, producers were able to use their back catalogues to boost sales, with a third of all sales […]
ITV has released figures that show 2021 is on track to be ITV Hub’s most successful year yet, partly thanks to Euro 2020, the return of Love Island, and the success of young skewing commissions including The Cabins and Social Media Murders. ITV says it has also more than doubled the amount of content on […]
BritBox International, the streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, will soon be available in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway through a distribution partnership with C More. The partnership marks the first strategic distribution deal for BritBox in the Nordics, and means Britbox will be available in a total of eight countries. From early 2022, […]
ITV Studios, the production arm of UK commercial broadcaster ITV, has revised its business expectations towards its 2026 expected trading. It suggests that it will double the already growing number of high-end streaming hours by 2026 from 200 hours to 400 hours. In essence, ITV Studios says it expects trading for 2022 to have recovered […]
In a bid to take Boxing Day back to its origins as a day of charitable giving, Vodafone is partnering with ITV this holiday season to rebrand Boxing Day as ‘Reboxing Day’. The partnership, which feeds into Vodafone’s ‘everyone.connected’ initiative, will launch on ITV on December 10th and is fronted by Radio Host & TV […]
The Emirates FA Cup Third Round returns to the BBC and ITV in January with six live matches on the FTA channels as Premier League clubs join the knockout competition. ITV’s January 9th coverage, which includes both the West Ham v Leeds United and Nottingham Forest v Arsenal matches, will also include the FA Cup […]
cinch, the UK’s online car sales platform, will be the first-ever sponsor of new musical game show, Walk The Line, which starts on ITV and ITV Hub at 8pm this Sunday, and will air every night until its finale on Friday (December 17). The sponsorship covers idents on both broadcast and catch-up as well as […]
Thierry Lachkar has been named as the CEO of ITV Studios France. He takes up the helm at the label with a focus on building and growing the company, which works with a numner of the biggest French TV broadcasters and platforms. Shows produced by ITV Studios France include The Voice, which saw a record-breaking […]
Following the launch of a bespoke I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! experience in Fortnite Creative, ITV and John Lewis & Partners today unveil further details of the integrated commercial partnership, planned by MG OMD, bringing the retailer’s Christmas story ‘Unexpected Guest’ dramatically to life via a synchronised cross-media event taking place in Fortnite […]
BritBox UK has announced a new, three-part original factual commission, available exclusively to subscribers from March 2022. Secrets of the Spies delves deep into a world of secrets and lies; from James Bond to Ian Fleming, Kim Philby to Sergei Skripal; the world of espionage is one of blurred lines where fact is often stranger […]