ITV Backing Business, the B2B initiative aimed at supporting businesses and their return to growth, has announced a partnership with eBay, as the pair join forces to champion small businesses. Launching as a new co-branded commercial across ITV and STV on December 4th during I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, the ad creative will […]
Digital UK, the joint venture which leads the operations and strategy of UK DTT platform and Freeview service, has confirmed that broadcast network infrastructure and transmission services provider Arqiva will stand down as a shareholder in the Company from March 2021. The remaining shareholders – the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 – will now have […]
ITV Studios has sold a range of French and English language drama to the recently launched French SVoD service, Salto. The platform which aggregates content from France Télévisions, TF1 and M6 for streaming, has acquired a range of premium scripted content produced by Tetra Media Studios, ITV Studios France (ITVS France) and Jeff Pope’s Factual […]
Following the success of the The Real Housewives of Cheshire series, ITV is launching a new version of the franchise, The Real Housewives of Jersey. The ten-part series will launch in December on ITVBe and, in a first for the ITV Hub, the entire series will be available to watch as a Box Set on […]
ITV has appointed two new Creative Diversity Partners who will play key roles in driving greater diversity and inclusion both on and off screen. Reporting to Ade Rawcliffe, ITV Group Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Nahrein Kemp and Sam Tatlow will support the implementation of ITV’s Diversity Acceleration Plan, launched earlier this year, aimed at […]
ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! launched with 14.3 million viewers – its biggest ever overall audience for the opening episode of the long-running series. The first show of the 2020 series, which ran on November 15th, consolidated to an audience of 13.8 million TV viewers [52 per cent audience share] over the […]
BritBox, the SVoD service created by the BBC and ITV, has officially launched in Australia. The launch is the next step in the global expansion of the platform, following its earlier launches in the US, Canada and the UK. ITV and BBC Studios announced in August 2020 plans to invest more than A$35 million (€21.2m) […]
Pat Younge has been named as the new Non-Executive Director for the ITV Studios Board. An award-winning journalist and creative leader with 30 years experience working at major broadcasters in the UK and abroad, Younge takes up the role with immediate effect. Younge is currently the co-founder of and co-MD of Cardiff Productions, which he […]
ITV has launched its first branded podcast, My Life in TV. Hosted by Alison Hammond, the show will see some of ITV’s favourite names discuss their most loved TV shows, open up about their career highs and lows, as well as the television that shaped their childhoods. Available across Global Player and other podcast providers, […]
ITV, the UK commercial broadcaster, has published its Q3 trading update for the 9 months to September 30th. Total external revenue was down 16 per cent at £1.86 billion (€2.08bn). Total ITV Studios revenue was down 19 per cent at £902 million. Broadcast revenue was down 13 per cent at £1.27 billion with ITV total […]