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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…

Former ABC exec and Jimmy Kimmel Live! executive producer Duncan Gray has won a social media-led challenge format for ITV2 fronted by two of the breakout stars of Love Island. Gray's Cineflix-backed production company Twenty Six 03 Entertainment is making You Vs. Chris and Kem, which will see the two Love Island hunks…

ITV2 Adds U.S. Drama, Comedies To Lineup The UK’s ITV2 just announced a quartet of acquisitions of U.S. shows. ABC's new supernatural drama 666 Park Avenue was picked up from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. It stars Terry O'Quinn, Vanessa Williams, Rachael Taylor and Dave Annable and is set in a…