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ITV Spent $68M On Diverse Shows In 2023 ITV invested £54.2M ($68M) of its Diversity Commissioning Fund last year on shows made by or about people from under-represented backgrounds such as Lenny Henry’s Three Little Birds. The fund was launched in 2022 with £80M to be spent across three years to…

ITV’s post office drama that has led to an intense period of reckoning for multiple institutions and pushed the issue to the front pages of UK newspapers for weeks has found a U.S. home. PBS Masterpiece has picked up Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which will air in April. Starring BAFTA-winners…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV made big bucks from Love Island brand extensions, and the man behind the merchanise millions has now launched his own company. William Van Rest has set up Jem Media Ventures, a UK-based company designed to help business, brands and talent create ancillary income from IP, including…

British reality show Celebrity Big Brother has reportedly recruited a contestant connected in high places, with the Princess of Wales's uncle set to take part. The Sun newspaper reports that ITV has been locked in talks with Gary Goldsmith, the brother of Kate Middleton's mother Carole, with the…

Jonathan Ross To Host ITV UK Oscars Coverage Jonathan Ross is to host the UK coverage of the Oscars as the world’s biggest movie awards ceremony shifts to ITV for the first time. ITV has unveiled its coverage for the 96th Academy Awards, with Ross hosting an Oscars party on March 10 from 10.30 p.m…

ITV’s decision to kick Love Island: All Stars into its main channel schedule failed to reap rewards, with just 1M tuning in to the opener last night on ITV 1 and a further 500,000 on ITV 2. A share of less than 12% of overall viewers watched the new spin-off, which is seeing the return of Love Island…

Matt Scarff is taking the reins at albert, the BAFTA-owned organization that works with the industry to help it embed climate action and sustainability into its work – on and off screen. Scarff has taken the Managing Director role on a permanent basis, having been interim boss. "Over the last three…

Gladiators came back with a bang to British TV screens on Saturday, making light work of ITV’s The Masked Singer. In the latest line of UK TV reboots, the series in which members of the public take on the gladiators in challenges was watched by more than 6M viewers with a 38% share, comfortably…

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs. the Post Office has become the British broadcaster's biggest new drama in over a decade, beating even the launch of Downton Abbey back in 2010. The four-part drama series was aired initially in the first week of 2024, and has now reported more than 16.6million streams on…

The ink has dried on SAG-AFTRA's deal with the AMPTP but, in the UK negotiations between union and producer will soon kick off, and the threat of strike action looms large for the first time this generation. While the British system works very differently to its cousin on the other side of the pond…

The current landscape is making it “increasingly hard” to fund British stories such as the Post Office drama that is currently dominating the news agenda, according to ITV’s drama boss. Polly Hill, who commissioned the four-parter that is on the front page of every national newspaper this morning…

EXCLUSIVE: With the almost impossible-to-believe Post Office scandal bedecking the front of most UK national newspapers this week, the writer of the ITV smash drama about the saga has said it “tapped into” frustrations with the “politics of the moment.” Gwyneth Hughes, who penned the Toby…