ITV Content Boss Kevin Lygo has conceded the public will “take a while to find, understand and fall in love with” new free streamer ITVX, which launches today with a quartet of new dramas and £160M ($194M) cash injection.
ITV Content Boss Kevin Lygo has conceded the public will “take a while to find, understand and fall in love with” new free streamer ITVX, which launches today with a quartet of new dramas and £160M ($194M) cash injection.
Big Brother exec Natalka Znak has said it will be a “hard job” to reach beyond hardcore fans when the reality format is rebooted for ITV.
K.J. Yossman Fresh from seeing “Elvis” become his highest-grossing film of all time in the U.K., Australian director Baz Luhrmann is set to be one of the leading speakers at this year’s Royal Television Society (RTS) conference in London, set to take place later this month. Luhrmann, who has also created series such as “The Get Down,” will be in conversation with British host Edith Bowman, discussing “the power of creativity.” Also joining the lineup are head of interactive at BBC Studios Tom Burton, Vicki Dobbs Beck, VP for immersive content at Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB, BBC technology correspondent Marc Cieslak and Jan Koeppen, president of The Walt Disney Company EMEA.
Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz has said “there is something depressing” about the number of UK TV reboots currently in production.
Love Island’s “extraordinary success” drove ITV to commission its Big Brother reboot, according to content boss Kevin Lygo, who said duty of care is being considered for the upcoming reality show but “I don’t think we should stop allowing the public on TV.”
K.J. Yossman ITVX, the upcoming streaming platform from U.K. broadcaster ITV, will launch in November. ITV managing director for media and entertainment Kevin Lygo confirmed the launch date during a panel at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday afternoon. It will replace ITV’s current streaming platform ITV Hub. “The content that will be commissioned specifically for this, and [bought] in from America for this” will be “edgier” and viewed as an accompaniment to the traditional linear channel said Lygo.
Love Island.”It is the biggest finale since 2019, according to ITV, up 100,000 viewers year-on-year.A total of 3.4 million viewers watched the season 8 finale across ITV2 and ITV Hub on Monday evening. Meanwhile the full season has garnered over 250 million streams, making it the most watched series ever on ITV Hub.This year’s season is also second only to 2019’s in terms of its viewing average, averaging 2.7 million viewers across its eight weeks on air.Cülcüloğlu, an actor, and business owner Sanclimenti emerged victorious after a fan vote. Their temperamental on-off relationship won audiences’ hearts as the duo grew closer over eight weeks in the Majorcan villa.
Love Island chiefs will “sit down and review” the show after it ends on Monday.
Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV is planning an editorial review of its hugely popular show “Love Island,” after it drew a large number of complaints from members of the public to media regulator Ofcom.In the last two weeks alone, the show has attracted 5,623 complaints to Ofcom, mainly related to alleged bullying and misogynistic behavior from some of the male contestants.In response to a question from Variety, during an earnings call following ITV posting half yearly revenues of $2 billion, Kevin Lygo, managing director, ITV Studios, said: “We continually assess the program as it’s going on, because it’s one of these odd, every night live shows. But when the series comes to an end, on Monday, we will always sit down and review what we think about it, what the reaction’s been, how well it’s done.” “It’s the best one we’ve had in many years.
It's the final countdown! Love Island 2022 returns to our screens tonight. Yes, you read that right – tonight.
The new series of Love Island is just hours away and as the next instalment of singletons unpack their bikinis a number of shake ups have been brought in breathe new life into the show. But host Laura Whitmore will just be hoping she can breathe with having to endure a bad odour after revealing she hoped the new villa "smells better". Along with changes to the show's format, including viewers picking who the contestants couple up with in episode one, there will also be a completely new location.
Fans are excitedly counting down for Love Island 2022 this summer.The hit dating show that takes viewers through a range of emotions is a summer staple and thanks to the shock twists it knows exactly how to hook fans in. There have been plenty of rumours about who could be appearing on this year’s show and what can be expected after ITV released a trailer earlier this year. Love Island will return to screens on June 6, and is expected to be the longest season to date.This summer will see the series run for an extended ten weeks instead of the usual eight, with filming for promotion of the show due to take place very soon.
First pictures of the brand new Love Island villa have been unveiled, revealing tradesmen are already hard at work to get it up to top shape ahead of the ITV show's return on 6 June.The new Mallorcan mansion boasts six bedrooms and sits at the foot of a big hill in a rural area of the island. Rustic in appearance, the rock-walled abode has two floors with a large outdoor area complete with what appears to be a pool. Currently under construction, the house has a tractor on the premises in the photos while scaffolding can be seen in various areas.
With summer around the corner, Love Island fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of the well-loved ITV2 show – and they won't have to wait much longer. Love Island is set to return to our screens in just four weeks time and, with this in mind, the first teaser for its eight season has been dropped.The video appears to poke fun at Love Island's rival dating shows like Celebs Go Dating and Ex On The Beach, before claiming that Love Island "owns it".
Laura Whitmore is said to have bagged a whopping £500,000 deal to host the next series of Love Island. Laura, 36, first hosted the popular dating show in 2020 for the winter edition following Caroline Flack’s decision to step down. In the wake of Caroline’s death in February 2020, Laura went on to host the 2021 summer edition of Love Island.
The Love Island villa which featured on the original series of the hit ITV show has sold for an eye-watering £3 million. The luxury mansion where the series one and two islanders lived for six weeks has been snapped up by a buyer after being on the market for a year.
Love Island is set to be moving to a new prime location, bosses have confirmed after speculation emerged of set changes to the hit dating show for the upcoming series. Along with a host of fresh faced contestants, the ITV2 reality dating show will return this summer with a completely different house after filming at the same Majorcan property for the last five years. Managing director of ITV’s media and entrainment, Kevin Lygo, has said Love Island is moving to a “marvellous” new mansion in what appears to be a bid to revitalise the show, which will enter its eight series in a few month’s time.
Coronation Street viewers are in for a big change this week, as the ITV soap schedule gets a shake-up because of a clash with the FA cup coverage.This week, Corrie, which usually airs two half-hour episodes at 7:30pm and 8:30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays plus one episode on Fridays, will look a little different. While the week started normally with two installments on Monday 31st January, the rest of the days have all been altered slightly. Due to the FA cup coverage being broadcast on ITV on Friday 4th February, there will be no double bill of Corrie going out ahead of the weekend.
A huge shake-up at ITV will see Emmerdale and Coronation Street moved to a different time.
Emmerdale and Coronation Street fans will soon be getting used to a new schedule.
Emmerdale and Coronation Street have announced big changes to their weeknight scheduling amid a huge ITV shake-up. Following the news that ITV is extending its national and international news programming, Emmerdale and Corrie will both have new slots and become part of the channel’s ‘super soap’ nights.
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Love Island bosses have revealed they will accept non-binary applications for the latest series.
ITV’s upcoming adaptation of The Ipcress File “looks like a big Netflix show,” according to Director of Programmes Kevin Lygo, who said he wants the Len Deighton remake to reach beyond the “standard ITV viewer.”
tweeted of the in-depth celebrity interview program. Morgan left ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” earlier this year after fallout from his on-air comments about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey.ITV boss Kevin Lygo said in April he was worried about how “Good Morning Britain” could replace Morgan, telling Deadline at the time, “Piers is a special thing.
ITV boss, Kevin Lygo, has defended the number of Love Island complaints from the 2021 series. The hit ITV2 dating show ended on Monday, where Millie Court and Liam Reardon were crowned the winners, and during the latest season it received nearly 25,000 Ofcom complaints following Faye Winter and Teddy Soares' explosive row.
Manori Ravindran International EditorITV managing director Kevin Lygo used questionable phrasing to defend the duty of care standards applied to the channel’s juggernaut show “Love Island,” which has lost two former contestants and its host Caroline Flack to suicide.In a discussion of the 25,000 complaints lodged against an episode of the most recent season, which saw contestant Faye Winter verbally abuse her partner Teddy Soares, Lygo said the channel’s duty of care overall was the “gold
ITV’s Director of Television Kevin Lygo has defended the viewing figures and rejected criticism of its ITV2 jewel Love Island, following the finale of the fifth series of the show earlier this week, saying claims the show is past its peak are well off the mark.
EXCLUSIVE: ITV’s television chief Kevin Lygo has said that Piers Morgan will be impossible to replace on Good Morning Britain after the presenter exited the show in a firestorm over his Meghan Markle tirade.
Love Island is now accepting applications through dating app Tinder in an attempt to shake up the casting process ahead of the show's epic summer comeback.The popular ITV show had no choice but to take a break last year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the UK, alongside many other countries, into lockdown and various restrictions. However, earlier this month, Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of Media and Entertainment at ITV, confirmed Love Island is returning this year.
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