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EXCLUSIVE: IMDb TV has picked up Timewasters, the British comedy about a jazz band who time travel via a urine-soaked elevator in a dilapidated block of flats. Amazon’s free streaming service will carry the first two seasons of the now-canceled ITV2 show, which is produced by ITV Studios-backed Big Talk Productions…

Laura Whitmore has been announced as the new presenter of Love Island after Caroline Flack quit the British reality show after being charged with assault. Whitmore will host the new winter version of the show, which will be filmed at a villa in Cape Town, South Africa, and launches on ITV2 on January 12, 2020. She…

Caroline Flack, the host of ITV2's Love Island, has quit the forthcoming season of the hit reality series after being charged with assault. Last week, the British TV presenter was charged with assault after an incident involving her boyfriend. Police were called to her home in north London, where she lives with her…

ITV is coupling up even further with its hit reality dating format Love Island by doubling the number of seasons of the show set to air in 2020. The British commercial broadcaster will air two seasons next year, coming on the back of ratings growth for its fifth season, which is the most watched program of the year…

Classic entertainment format Supermarket Sweep is returning in the UK after ITV2 ordered a 20-part primetime run. The Al Howard-created show, which is based on the format that aired on ABC from 1965-67, will return on the Love Island broadcaster with Rylan Clark-Neal as host. The original series ran on ITV for more…

Love Island continues to be a huge ratings success in the UK as the reality format scored its highest ever opening with 3.3M viewers. It is what it is, as the contestants say. The ITV2 format, which is produced by ITV Studios, returned last night for a fifth season with a 90-minute episode, that performed better than…

Hulu and ITV have partnered on a new zombie apocalypse comedy set on a canal boat in Birmingham, England. The digital platform and youth skewing network ITV2 have ordered Zomboat!, a six-part comedy from ITV-owned Noho Film & Television, the company behind Prime Suspect 1973 and Channel 4 royal comedy The…

Keshet has scored a fifteen-part reality dating series for youth-skewing British broadcaster ITV2. The Israeli company, hot on the heels of hosting its INTV conference in Jerusalem, is making Singletown through its UK production division. The series, which will air later this year, will see five couples press pause on…

Former ABC exec and Jimmy Kimmel Live! executive producer Duncan Gray scored a full season order from ITV2 for You Vs. Chris and Kem, a social media-led challenge format hosted by the Love Island stars. Gray's Cineflix-backed production company Twenty Six 03 Entertainment is making a four-part run of the show after…

The Crown's Anna Chancellor and Black Mirror's Daniel Rigby have joined the second season of British comedy Timewasters after ITV2 recommissioned the series. Chancellor, who played Lady Rosse in the Netflix royal drama and also recently starred in Trust, and Rigby, who starred in Black Mirror episode The Waldo Moment…

Love Island, the smash hit British reality dating competition, is “on the verge” of cracking on into the United States and a number of other major markets – fresh from its latest finale scoring record breaking ratings for ITV2. An overnight audience of 3.6M and a peak of 4.1M watched Dani Dyer, daughter of British…

British reality format Love Island scored a peak audience of 3.4m viewers on ITV2 as the digital broadcaster cleaned up against its bigger rivals. The series, which follows a group of singletons including Danny Dyer's daughter Dani Dyer who must couple up in a Majorcan villa, averaged 2.9m viewers across its 90-minute…