YouTube sensation Chunkz will host as ITV2 launches Britain’s most chaotic cooking show, Bad Chefs. In the ultimate recipe for disaster, this brand new reality show from Lifted Entertainment will challenge ten takeaway addicts to ditch the delivery apps and swap convenience food for culinary flare as they learn to cook for the very first […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has reported a strong 2021 with record revenues and revealed an acceleration of its digital strategy which will see the launch in Q4 of ITVX, which it says is the first integrated AVoD/SVoD platform in the UK. But despite the revenue record, softer forecasts and the looming costs of the streaming […]
ITV has signed an agreement with WarnerMedia International Television Distribution which will make the UK content network the exclusive free-to-air home of programmes including the The Sex Lives of College Girls, a comedy series created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble. The first season will have its UK premiere exclusively on ITV Hub and ITV2 […]
ITV Studios has announced the expansion of Armoza Formats with its new production company, Armoza Productions. The Israeli-based content creators and distributors will now serve as the production arm of ITV Studios within Israel, producing all ITV Studios content in the future. The production company is already attached to produce the new season of ITV […]
ITV has commissioned a food artist to create images of famous faces from vegetables to mark the return of the award-winning healthy eating campaign, Eat Them To Defeat Them, to schools. Eat Them To Defeat Them returned this month for its fourth consecutive year with its biggest target yet – reaching one million children with […]
ITV has announced that, from March 7th, its flagship soap Coronation Street will change to new hour long format. The soap will then air 8-9pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Coronation Street Producer Iain MacLeod said: “It’s an exciting time for the show and these [current storylines] will propel us into the hour-long era with […]
ITV will show highlights of the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One, Sky Bet League Two, Carabao Cup and the Papa John’s Trophy from the 2022/23 season after agreeing a two-season partnership with the EFL. A comprehensive round-up of all the day’s action from across the EFL will be screened in the primetime slot […]
ITV Studios has struck a major content deal with the CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster, for a slew of Scripted and Non-Scripted titles, including Ten Year Old Tom, Bump Series 2 and Showtrial. The deal will also see the long-running soap Coronation Street extended, as well as a number of new dramas, comedies and factual […]
Pan-European broadcaster RTL Group is to combine its fully-owned businesses RTL AdConnect, G+J iMS and the media division of Smartclip to create what it says will be an ‘international advertising sales champion’. The new unit will provide international advertisers simplified access to a portfolio of media brands across TV, digital video, radio/audio, online, mobile and […]
ITV Studios has announced that Julie Clark has been appointed to the role of Director of Production for its UK drama labels. Joining from Studio Lambert where she has been Head of Production for Drama since 2018, Clark will work specifically across ITV Studios’ drama labels which include Happy Prince, Jeff Pope’s Factual Drama, Patrick […]