Latest ITV News – Page 160
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NewsITV drama Mr Selfridge sold to US
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has sold period drama Mr Selfridge to US public broadcaster PBS and three other territories.
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NewsITV online continues to grow while TV share dips
ITV’s online, pay and interactive division saw revenue grow 24% from £38m in 2011 to £47m in the first half of this year.
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NewsITV Studios boosts ITV growth
ITV Studios, the production arm of ITV has reported a strong performance for the first half of the year with its profit growing 32% to £12m, while overall the company saw profit up 15% compared to the same period in 2011.
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NewsITV acquires Norwegian indie Mediacircus
ITV has acquired Norwegian production company Mediacircus and formed a strategic production partnership with Israeli broadcaster Reshet.
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NewsITV1's The Agenda to return
Tom Bradby’s current affairs debate show The Agenda is to return for a second series on ITV1.
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NewsBGT striptease cleared by Ofcom
ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent has been cleared by Ofcom on several fronts including the failure of its voting app and the performance of a burlesque dancer.
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NewsITV nets Lee Dixon
ITV has confirmed former Arsenal and England defender Lee Dixon will join its roster of football pundits from the BBC.
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NewsTributes flood in for ITN's Burnet
Alastair Burnet, most famous for fronting ITN’s News at Ten and the nightly ITN bulletin, passed away following a series of strokes at a London nursing home last night.
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NewsEmmys: how the Brits fared
ITV1 drama Downton Abbey led the British charge in the Emmy Award nominations, picking up 16 different nods.
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NewsITV1 to pilot Catch Phrase
ITV1’s bid to revive Catch Phrase has taken a step forward after the broadcaster ordered a pilot of the classic gameshow hosted by Stephen Mulhern.
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NewsEx-ITVS comedy boss joins BBC in-house team
Former ITV Studios creative director of comedy Saurabh Kakkar has moved to the BBC’s in-house comedy division as an executive producer.
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NewsTOWIE star could be witness in ITV/Belo copyright scrap
Sam Faiers could be approached to give a witness statement to support claims that ITV2’s The Only Way Is Essex has infringed copyright and breached confidence, according to an IP lawyer.
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NewsBBC1 and ITV1 close in on drama adaptations
BBC1 and ITV1 are lining up adaptations of Daphne du Maurier classic Jamaica Inn and Dorothy Koomson’s Ice Cream Girls respectively.
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NewsThe Garden pilots ITV1 marriage proposal format
24 Hours in A&E producer The Garden Productions is developing its first project for ITV1 - a format based on marriage proposals.
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NewsChannel 5 nets Liverpool FC doc
Channel 5 has beaten ITV to land an all-access documentary on Liverpool Football Club.
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NewsITV orders third helping of The Dales
Adrian Edmonson fronted travelogue, The Dales, is returning to ITV1 for a third run.
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NewsCITV: bring funding or miss out on projects
CITV is hunting for a live-action scripted series and a challenge series, but has warned indies they must bring third-party funding to projects.
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NewsITV1 adapts ‘forgotten’ novel
ITV1 is to adapt Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘forgotten’ romantic novel The Making Of A Marchioness into a single period drama.
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NewsBremner and Bellingham to front ITV daytime shows
ITV daytime has lined up Rory Bremner and Lynda Bellingham to front two daytime formats as part of a raft of 70 hours of commissions.
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ITV Sport and Ladbrokes to offer live betting
Visitors to the ITV Sport website are able to gamble on events without leaving the site following a deal with bookmaker Ladbrokes.