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EXCLUSIVE: Jason Biggs is getting back in the kitchen with pies. The star of American Pie, and the infamous warm apple pie scene, has teamed up with ITV America's Thinkfactory Media to host baking competition series Biggs Ass Bake Off (w/t). The arced competition series follows the world's best bakers aim to go big…

The sexy singletons are heading to Peacock. Love Island, the dating format based on the British smash hit, is moving from CBS to Peacock. The NBCUniversal streamer has given the series, which comes from ITV America, a two-season, 80-episode order. It comes after the youth-skewing series ran for three seasons on…

EXCLUSIVE: The Twelve Tribes, a controversial religious group and alleged cult that has been engulfed in allegations of abuse, kidnapping and murder, is set to be the subject of a new docuseries. ITV America's Good Caper Content has teamed up with journalist Nile Cappello, an exec producer on HBO Max's docuseries The W…

ITV America has had success adapting British formats in the U.S. including CBS' Love Island, ABC's The Chase and Fox's Hell's Kitchen. It is now looking to add more global formats to this list with the promotion of Love Island exec producer Simon Thomas. Thomas has been named President of ITV Entertainment – one of…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV America and Blumhouse Television are teaming on a U.S. reboot of long-running British format I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Here – with the horror cranked up. Deadline understands that the two companies are currently pitching Celebrity Castle, a reimagined version of the format to non-scripted buyers. The…

Blumhouse Television and ITV America set an overall deal for unscripted television. The former has now hired Gretchen Palek to oversee its push into non-scripted. Palek, who was Co-President of ITV America's Leftfield Pictures will become Head of Alternative at Blumhouse TV and will work closely with her former ITV…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that ITV America is developing the music reality series Star Serenade with Brazilian singer model and actress Greice Santo as creator and EP. The series format is described as having recording artists/pop-stars surprising individuals with a performance of a song that’s particularly…

Blumhouse Television is scaring up even more moves into the world of unscripted. The company has struck an overall deal with ITV America that covers non-fiction programming. It comes four years after ITV took a minority stake in the television arm of the horror hit factory. The two companies are already preparing…

A handful of crew of TBS' upcoming cooking competition series Rat In The Kitchen have gone on strike over healthcare benefits. The series, which is produced by ITV America's Thinkfactory Media, has been shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, but certain members of the IATSE crew downed tools this week. They say that they are…

ITV America, the production company behind CBS' Love Island, Fox's Hell's Kitchen and ABC's The Chase, is banking on a non-scripted boom. The company has also sold a slew of projects to the streamers in recent months and is retooling a raft of international formats that it hopes will bolster its business further. CEO…

ITV America and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have resolved their dispute concerning ABC gameshow The Chase. This comes as the show is on the brink of being renewed for a second season. Writers working on the show, which is a remake of the hit British format, went on strike on March 24 over issues around health…

EXCLUSIVE: Meat Loaf is preparing to run right into hell and back with a TV competition series based on his iconic 1993 hit “I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).” The artist, aka Michael Lee Aday, has sealed a pact with Nobody's Hero, the production company set up by Christopher Potts and Jonty Nash — two…