ITV orders double Love Island for 2023
June 23, 2022
ITV and Lifted Entertainment (part of ITV Studios) have announced two new series of Love Island, coming to ITV2 and ITVX in the New Year.
As TV’s biggest show across 16-34 year olds, Love Island will kick start the New Year with a fresh batch of Islanders heading to South Africa on a quest for love and romance. Summer 2023 will then see the popular dating show return to Mallorca for another eight week run.
The current series, airing across ITV2 and ITV Hub, launched to a consolidated 5 million viewers across all devices (including catch up across TV, mobile, PC and tablet), up on 2021 by +0.2 million making it the highest launch since 2019.
Consolidated data has confirmed that the Love Island launch is now officially the biggest programme of the year for the 16-34 year old demographic. The launch episode has been streamed 7.5 million times and the series as a whole has been streamed 74 million times.
Paul Mortimer, Director of Reality Commissioning and Controller, ITV2, said “Love Island has once again proved itself to be the nation’s favourite talking point across the summer, and we’re always blown away by the show’s ongoing impact and talkability amongst our younger audience. So, rather than just serving up a Summer of Love, we thought we’d make 2023 the Year of Love with two full series of the show.”
Mike Spencer, Executive Producer at Lifted Entertainment, added: “After eight brilliant series, we are excited to be serving up two helpings of love in 2023 by kicking off in January at a stunning new villa in South Africa. We can look forward to more romances, bromances and everything in between as we embark on another epic year of love.”
ITV Studios handles distribution of Love Island.