All ITV Studios articles – Page 78
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NewsSimon Dickson resurfaces at Shiver
Former Dragonfly managing director Simon Dickson will create his own label within Shiver as ITV Studios’ factual arm attempts to boost its documentary output.
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RatingsCockroaches unearths 480k on ITV2
TUESDAY: ITV2’s post-apocalyptic comedy Cockroaches was slightly up on its slot average with 480,000 viewers, but well down on the debut audience pulled in by Plebs.
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NewsKate Barnes lands ITVS drama role
Former Xbox and Channel 5 exec Kate Barnes has been appointed head of drama acquisitions and co-productions at ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE).
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NewsITV's Leftfield strikes US indie deal
ITV-owned US indie Leftfield Entertainment has struck a partnership deal with fledgling production company Crybaby Media.
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NewsCockroaches released online by ITV
ITV has made the entire series of Big Talk Productions’ comedy Cockroaches available via ITV Player ahead of its linear broadcast.
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NewsITV to remake Ninja Warrior
ITV is adapt NBC challenge gameshow American Ninja Warrior after ITV Studios label Potato acquired the rights to the format.
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NewsITV invests $5m in Maker Studios founder
ITV has taken a $5m (£3.2m) stake in Zealot Networks, the digital content business set up by Maker Studios founder Danny Zappin earlier this year.
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NewsCITV orders second run of Thunderbirds
CITV has commissioned a second series of Thunderbirds Are Go! ahead of the return of its revamp.
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NewsBeowulf unleashed by ITV
ITV is to adapt literary classic Beowulf as it adds to its slate of fantasy adventure dramas.
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NewsEducating… heads to Cardiff
Channel 4’s Educating… strand is to leave England for the first time with a fourth series set in the Welsh capital city.
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RatingsI’m A Celebrity ends on a high
SUNDAY: I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! finished its 14th run on a series high, although the finale was 700,000 short of last year.
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NewsZadie Smith novel adapted by BBC
The BBC is developing an adaptation of Zadie Smith’s fourth novel NW with Parade’s End indie Mammoth Screen.
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RatingsRemember Me scares off 1m
SUNDAY: Remember Me scared 1m viewers away from BBC1 for its second episode as I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here entertained its biggest audience in 11 days.
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NewsBBC shelves Shannon Matthews drama
BBC1 has paused production on a dramatisation of Shannon Matthews’ hoax kidnapping to address “important production and editorial matters”.
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RatingsInside Tatler and Skint draw 1.5m
MONDAY: There was stalemate in the battle of posh versus poor last night, as both Posh People: Inside Tatler and Skint pulled in 1.5m viewers.
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NewsBrits clean up at International Emmys
Utopia, Educating Yorkshire and The Tunnel were among the winners at the International Emmy Awards.
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NewsITV greenlights Jekyll & Hyde
ITV has added to its drama slate with an ambitious ten-part series inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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NewsITV orders 100 hours of Judge Rinder
British barrister Judge Rinder is to return to ITV with a super-sized daytime order.
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RatingsMichael Palin and Lewis Hamilton boost BBC1
SUNDAY: A rare lead role from Michael Palin helped BBC1 ghost story Remember Me spook 5.3m viewers as Lewis Hamilton clinched the Formula One championship in front of a season high crowd.
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NewsShiver secures six ITV shows
Come Dine With Me producer Shiver has won a raft of factual commissions from ITV with a number of one-offs and a three-part series about the Carry On… films.