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ITV
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ITV plants Wishing Tree order
ITV is piloting The Wishing Tree, the feelgood format from Talpa Media, which sits within…
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ITV exec says BBC, NBCU SVOD ‘a good idea’
ITV executive Simon Daglish said that an SVOD partnership between the broadcaster, BBC and NBCU…
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ITV poaches Turner’s Eilenberg for key US role
Turner Broadcasting System veteran David Eilenberg has been tapped to run ITV Entertainment, the newly…
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StudioCanal Paranoid about new ITV drama
ITV has ordered Paranoid, a new eight-part drama about a group of detectives sucked into…
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BBC, ITV, NBCU ‘have discussed’ Netflix rival
UK pubcaster the BBC has had talks with ITV and NBCUniversal about a streaming service…
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ITV uncorks The Wine Show
ITV has ordered a lifestyle series The Wine Show from Infinity Creative Media, the prodco…
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Crozier: ‘ITV a buyer, not a target’
ITV CEO Adam Crozier has dismissed suggestions the UK broadcaster is a takeover target and…
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Nine stocks up on international series
Australian free-to-air net Nine has ordered a local version of Travel Guides, the travel series…
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Bazalgette named ITV chairman
TV industry veteran Sir Peter Bazalgette will become non-executive chairman of ITV from early May,…
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Busoli’s Formata to sell ITV formats
Formata has inked a deal with ITV Studios and will shop its formats in the…
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Thunderbirds are Go on Amazon
The reboot of classic kids series Thunderbirds has been acquired by Amazon, which will run…
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ITV factual boss exiting
ITV’s director of factual, Richard Klein, is leaving the UK commercial broadcaster. Klein joined ITV…
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Maria Kyriacou upped at ITV Studios
Maria Kyriacou has been handed a wider role in at ITV Studios after being named…
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Loud, Frantic form strategic pact
Leftfield Entertainment’s Loud TV and Canadian prodco Frantic Films have struck a strategic programming partnership…
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Bedell latest to exit ITV
ITV director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell following Peter Fincham out of the door…
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Broadchurch writer replacing Moffat on Doctor Who
The BBC has confirmed that Steven Moffat will step down as lead writer and exec…
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Talpa forms JV with China’s Zhejiang
Talpa Media has created a joint venture in China with major local broadcaster Zhejiang Talent…
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Lygo to replace Fincham at ITV
Kevin Lygo is to become UK broadcaster ITV’s director of televison after current incumbent Peter…
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BBCWW secures detective series presales
BBC Worldwide has shopped upcoming detective drama Maigret to France 3, Germany’s ARD, Sweden’s TV4…
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CBC buys pair of British dramas
The CBC has picked up a pair of dramas from ITV in the UK for…
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BBC wars with ITV over pubcaster role
UK pubcaster the BBC has slammed commercial rival ITV, rebuking a number of claims made…
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Ex-Weinstein, NBCU execs join US digital prodco
Indigenous Media, the digital producer backed by ITV, has hired executive VPs from The Weinstein…
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ITV goes for wartime drama
UK commercial channel ITV has commissioned an 8x60mins period drama set in high London society…
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ITV brings Darnell-Burnett gameshow to UK
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned a local version of Mike Darnell and Mark Burnett’s…
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ITV confirms deal for The Voice
ITV has confirmed it has swooped for The Voice, taking it from the BBC. The…
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CCS Insight: ‘BT to buy ITV by 2018’
BT will buy UK public broadcaster ITV by 2018 in an effort to “broaden its…
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ITV warms to Cold Feet reboot, new drama
UK broadcaster ITV is to bring back popular 1990s comedy drama Cold Feet after 13…
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Virgin Media study brands retrans fees ‘bad idea’
A study by Virgin Media found that 72% of people thought proposals to introduce pay…
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Acquisitions drive ITV Studios results
ITV Studios has reported a significant increase in revenues off the back of a prolonged…
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Netflix UK, YFE among Toot buyers
Netflix in the UK, Disney in Australia and Germany-based YFE have acquired Toot the Tiny…