Latest ITV News – Page 134
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NewsCITV acquires Nerds and Monsters
CITV has acquired Slap Happy Cartoons’ Nerds and Monsters after airing an episode of the animated comedy last month.
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NewsITV hires entertainment commissioner
Amanda Stavri, the executive producer of Peter Andre series My Life, is to join ITV’s entertainment commissioning team.
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NewsAnalysis: ITV’s Leftfield deal
ITV’s £212m acquisition of Pawn Stars producer Leftfield Entertainment Group will catapult it to the top reaches of the independent production sector in the US.
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NewsITV buys US indie Leftfield Entertainment for £212m
ITV has made its biggest indie acquisition yet under Adam Crozier - wrapping up an initial $360m (£212m) deal for Pawn Stars producer Leftfield Entertainment Group.
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NewsNew Eleventh Hour team wins ITV order
Eleventh Hour Films has won its first commission from ITV since expanding its senior creative team.
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NewsOfcom criticises subtitling standards
The UK’s major broadcasters are failing to meet best practice guidelines when providing subtitles for the live programming.
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NewsITV eyes Doctor Who-style dramas
ITV is bidding to replicate the global success of family dramas Doctor Who and Merlin by producing two ambitious fantasy adventure series.
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NewsBBC and ITV aim to resolve pay row
The BBC and ITV will attempt to resolve a long-running pay dispute with specialist drama production crew after Bectu threatened to disrupt work on some of the UK’s biggest shows.
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NewsBBC drops out of CBI over Scottish independence
The BBC has suspended its membership of the CBI after the business group joined an anti-Scottish independence campaign.
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NewsJulian Bellamy to join ITVS
Julian Bellamy is leaving Discovery Networks International to join ITV Studios.
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NewsITV rustles up celebrity cookery series for daytime
ITV has used ingredients from Come Dine With Me and Through The Keyhole to create a celebrity-led daytime cookery series.
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NewsITV wins Broadmoor access for doc series
ITV has won approval from health minister Norman Lamb to secure unprecedented access to Broadmoor Hospital for an ob-doc series.
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NewsSTV ad revenue up 5% in 2014
STV enjoyed a solid start to the year with advertising revenue rising 5% as it prepares to launch its first local TV channel.
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NewsITV pilots sitcoms from Green Wing writers
Darren Boyd and Katherine Parkinson have been lined up to star in two separate ITV sitcoms from the writers behind Channel 4’s cult comedy Green Wing.
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NewsITV prepares for Good Morning Britain
ITV will launch new breakfast brand Good Morning Britain next week with a greater focus on news than the ill-fated Daybreak.
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NewsITV to fill Champions League void with in-house formats
ITV plans to use the funding and space in the schedule freed up by its loss of the Champions League to test in-house formats.
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NewsDenise O'Donoghue to leave ITVS
Denise O’Donoghue is to step down as the UK managing director of ITV Studios after four years.
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NewsITV extends YouTube deal
ITV shows such as I’m A Celebrity, This Morning and Coronation Street are in line to get dedicated YouTube channels following an extension of the broadcaster’s deal with the Google-owned video-sharing site.
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NewsJeremy Kyle Show rapped for treatment of 17-year-old
ITV has been censured for the “humiliation and distress” caused to a 17-year-old guest on The Jeremy Kyle Show.
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NewsRivals hit out at BBC1+1 plan
ITV and Channel 4 have voiced concerns about BBC content, quotas and BBC1+1 plans – but ultimately backed the licence fee as the corporation prepares for its charter renewal.