McVitie’s will be the new headline sponsor of ITV’s flagship entertainment show, Britain’s Got Talent, in 2021. With a shared vision of bringing people together, the collaboration will see two of the UK’s most iconic brands join forces ahead of the forthcoming 15th series next year. The sponsorship announcement follows the launch of McVitie’s ‘Too […]
Traditional UK broadcasting is unlikely to survive in the online world, unless broadcasting laws and regulation are overhauled and broadcasters speed up their transformation for the digital age, concludes regulator Ofcom in its Small Screen: Big Debate review of public service broadcasting (PSB). Ofcom is looking at how to strengthen and maintain PSB for the […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has found that commercial PSB ITV failed properly to implement and execute procedures that are fundamental to ensuring compliance with rules regarding the operation of its broadcast competitions and the relevant licence conditions. The broadcaster identified six broadcast competitions, which ran between 2016 and 2019, where a proportion of eligible postal […]
The final of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! was watched by a peak of 10.7 million viewers on ITV on December 4th as Giovanna Fletcher was crowned Queen of the Castle. An average audience of 9.7 million [45 per cent of TV viewers] watched the show, presented live from Gwrych Castle in Wales, […]
ITV Studios has announced a raft of new sales in India totalling over 300 hours, from across its enviable scripted and non-scripted slates. A deal has been concluded with Lionsgate Play for World Productions’ forthcoming thriller Vigil, as well as Romulus, Cattleya, Groenlandia and Sky’s ambitious drama that reconstructs the epic tale of the founding of Rome. […]
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 […]