All ITV articles – Page 242
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RatingsApprentice move proves mixed bag
WEDNESDAY: The Apprentice’s move from spring to autumn had mixed results as its return went up against Grand Designs and Midsomer Murders.
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Maddigan takes commissioning position at ITV1
A former producer on some of BBC1’s biggest Saturday-night shows has joined ITV1 as an entertainment commissioner.
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NewsITV2 Essex show offers barcodes for extra content
Viewers of ITV2 reality series The Only Way Is Essex will be able to download mobile content using barcodes that will feature in the show itself.
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NewsCITV orders first animation in five years
Kids channel CITV has commissioned its first animated series in five years from children’s publishers Walker Books.
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NewsQuentin follows in ex’s footsteps with ITV India tour
Tiger Aspect is to take actress Caroline Quentin on a tour of India for ITV - two years after it took her ex-husband Paul Merton to the same country for Channel 5.
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NewsProducer flies flag for Corrie’s move to Salford
Coronation Street producer Phil Collinson has thrown his weight behind moving the soap to Salford.
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NewsExecs go on tour to brief staff on ITV transformation
ITV’s top executives have been touring the country building momentum behind the company’s transformation programme.
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NewsWild goes behind scenes at London Zoo for ITV
ITV has asked the indie that opened the doors to British prisons Holloway and Wormwood Scrubs to turn its attentions to London Zoo.
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The Broadcast InterviewJo Clinton-Davis, popular factual, ITV
Popular factual is a sweet spot for ITV, with celebrity authored docs in particular winning high ratings. But its controller is also looking for bolder commissions, she tells Jake Kanter.
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NewsThe Bill studios given new life
Merton Studios, home to The Bill since 1983, has been sold along with 45,000 costume pieces and sets including a pub and police cells, to property investment company Panther Securities for £4.75m.
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NewsITV will charge for online exclusives
ITV plans to introduce premium content such as previews, additional scenes and alternative endings for its top shows, according to chief executive Adam Crozier.
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NewsITV sells Screenvision stake
ITV has offloaded its 50% stake in cinema advertising business Screenvision in an $80m (£50m) deal with US private equity fund Shamrock Capital.
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NewsJeremy Hunt outlines local TV plans
UK broadcasters will be able to win a higher slot on the EPG if they engage with the government’s local TV agenda.
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CommentHaving a ball on Coronation Street
ITV threw an impressive party for Coronation Street’s 50th anniversary last week. Jake Kanter soaked up the celebrations and discovered why the birthday scripts are being closely guarded.
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NewsCoronation Street breaks two world records
Coronation Street picked up a pair world records today as the ITV soap kicked-off the celebrations for its 50th anniversary.
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NewsFlintoff signs up for Zig Zag sports series
Zig Zag Productions has scored more than £4m worth of commissions, including an extreme sports series for ITV4 starring recently retired cricketer Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff.
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NewsITV acquires Matt Hatter toon
ITV1 has picked up a new animated fantasy series based around a boy who must defend a ‘multiverse’.
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NewsCaroline Aherne developing ITV1 sitcom
BROADCAST COMEDY FORUM: ITV1 is eyeing a sitcom from Royle Family writer Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope as it seeks to broaden its scripted comedy output beyond Benidorm.
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CommentDoes British drama lack balls?
Following Paul Abbott’s attack on drama commissioning, Jake Kanter asks if British viewers have the appetite for long-running homegrown drama.
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Behind The Scenes71 Degrees North, ITV1
Ten celebrities completing a series of challenges in the Arctic, in winter - great idea. So why had no one tried it before? David Mortimer tells all.