Last night’s Love Island finale capped off a strong season for the stalwart ITV2 format with a peak of 3.4M, the highest audience since 2019. The 90-minute extended final averaged 3M, as fan favorites Davide and Ekin-Su were crowned winners. The series averaged 2.7M across its eight-week run, another three-year-high. ITV also said views to … Read more
Big Brother has found its third British home, ITV, with the network teasing the news – one of the UK TV industry’s worst kept secrets of the past few months – during the final of tonight’s Love Island season eight. The format aired on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2010 and Paramount-owned Channel 5 from … Read more
ITV bosses have talked up the Plimsoll Productions and Ben Stephenson deals as “ticking the box on genre and geography” and detailed how soon-to-launch streamer ITVX will attract bigger audiences. Over the past weeks, ITV Studios has closed huge deals to acquire a majority stake in Hostile Planet and Tiny World producer Plimsoll for £103M … Read more
Profits at ITV fell slightly in the first half of this year as the network gears up for the ITVX rollout, while total group revenue hit £1.9B ($2.3B), ITV Studios’ scripted hours almost doubled in the line with the five-year masterplan and the production arm was making more shows for streamers than ever. The half-year … Read more