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Brittney griner return to the united states. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome. my guest this week is kevin lygo, the managing directorfor this week is kevin lygo, the managing director for itv of media and entertainment and as such she is responsible for all of the programming for itv on its network and on its new streaming servers, itvx. he began his media career working on the two ronnies as a trainee at the bbc and also a dealer of islamic art in paris for a while and this y...

From itv, we have talked a lot about how itv is evolving its business, its products, you have itvx landing. ijust wonder if you are nervous about the world cup. itv hub famously struggled a bit during one big game in the euros when england were in the semifinals a while back. it is going to get a huge amount of tension and pressure, itvx, with the world cup games coming up. are you ready? brute coming up. are you ready? we are ready- _ coming up. are you ready? - are ready. remember, we had the ...

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That works both ways. and whats the relationship between itv and them? would this be something that you might whatsapps them on the way out of the bbc about something, are you to and following with all the time or does it all formally go through producers and agents and everyone else? no, i think one of the glories of working at itv is you are very close to them, so i will actually text them during im celebrity. actually text them during im celebri . ~ actually text them during im celebri .~ act...

As 0fcom is suggesting it should? well, they could give us some of the licence fee... would you like that? oh, well, i dont know. its very difficult to please everyone all the time. but im interested, that was a throwaway remark, but it seems to me it wasnt entirely injest, because im sure you know the culture secretary this week said that the licence fee is not a long—term, sustainable model, so is itv interested in a different type of licence fee, which is notjust given to the bbc? honestly,...

On the sofa with your wife, watching tv of an evening, just messaging different itv presenters on air. is there anyone else youre messaging? robert peston, while hes doing his show? i have texted robert. but, yeah, no, there is a close relationship, but also, there is a commissioning team, there are the producers, everyone is kind of united in getting the best out of whatever the show is at the time. we have inevitably, and rightly, talked about itv a lot. i want to ask you quickly about the pla...

I think the bbc is the place for matt hancock. we will see. at itv, you are a broadcaster and a producer, selling programmes around the world. im interested to know how your role straddles those purposes for itv. when ijoined itv, for about five years or more, i ran the studios, the production side of the business, and we all identified that it needed bolstering and it needed to grow, and owning your own programmes was a good thing to do. so we have spent many years investing in it, growing it, ...

Dropped every week, mainly from america, but also from the bbc and itv. so the choice is extraordinary, and this certainly is sharpening the wits of producers and writers and creators to meet that challenge. so help me understand what it is that makes one programme cut through all of that. lets focus on love island, one of your biggest hits. why do you think that format has generated so much interest, in a way that lots of other formats dont? yeah, i wish i really knew the answer to that one. i ...