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Even though the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster believes that it is seeing an improvement in advertising market trends and potential in its SVOD business, I...

ITV Profits Hit Hard by COVID-19 Impact, But Productions Back on Track Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail U.K. broadcaster ITV’s annual results were announced Tuesday and the picture is that of a business severely impacted by COVID-19, but there are plenty of green shoots. Total external revenue was down 16%. ITV Studios total revenues were down 25%, impacted by the disruption to the majority of ITV productions from March 2020 when the first U.K. lockdown was declared. Total broadcast revenues were down by 8%, with total advertising down 11%. Advertising revenues showed a...

ITV has confirmed that hit entertainment show Love Island will be restored to its summer schedule after last year’s sun-soaked dating format was derailed by the coronavirus pandemic. ITV’s content chief Kevin Lygo said Love Island will be back after it has been off-air for around a year. The last season was a winter version, […]

| 18 February 2021 In a what is called a high-concept reimagining of the classic Western, leading European pay-TV firms CANAL+ and Sky are teaming to produce Django , a 10 x 60’ TV series loosely based on the Sergio Corbucci feature film. The series offers a fresh new take on the Western genre with a contemporary and psychological twist. It is set in the Wild West of the 1860s and 1870s. Sarah and John have founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts, full of men and women of all backgrounds, races and creeds, that welcomes everyone with open arms. Haunted by the murder of his fami...

BBC Launches First Fully-Owned U.S. Streamer With BBC Select (EXCLUSIVE) Manori Ravindran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With this week’s launch of streaming service BBC Select, one of the world’s most recognizable media brands is joining North America’s streaming ranks on its own terms for the very first time. The new platform joins an international channels portfolio that already includes BBC Earth, BBC Brit and BBC First. There’s also Stateside streamer BritBox, BBC Studios’ joint venture with ITV Studios. It’s fair to wonder why a platform like BritBox isn’t merely expan...