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Weeks after canceling Love Island this summer, ITV has also pulled the plug on the 2021 winter edition of the show amid ongoing uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, ITV plans to supersize the summer version of Love Island next year, with an extended number of episodes being filmed at the show’s home in…

The non-scripted business is gearing up for a return to full production, safely of course, over the next couple of months. L.A. County has allowed the reopening of film and TV production, non-fiction trade group N-Pact, which includes members such as Endemol Shine North America and Wheelhouse Entertainment, released…

ITV’s youth channel ITV2 is going to fill the huge Love Island-shaped gap in its schedule by showing the Australian version of the reality show. Love Island: Australia will premiere later this month after the ITV Studios format aired on Nine Network in Oz last year. It follows ITV having to cancel the summer season of …

Big Brother and Love Island were two of the big-ticket reality shows that have been put into a holding pattern as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown. However, CBS is confident that both non-scripted formats will air this summer, albeit slight later than originally planned. "With Love Island and Big Brother…

ITV has revealed that it has furloughed roughly 15% of its UK workforce as it bids to cut costs amid the coronavirus crisis that has shut down the majority of its productions and ravaged advertising revenue. In a trading update on Wednesday, the UK’s biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster said 800 staff have been…

CBS' version of hit British format Love Island is the latest non-scripted series to be pushed back due to the COVID-19 production shutdown. Deadline understands that CBS is still planning to move forward with the second season of the dating format but is pushing it from its original May 21 premiere. This comes after…

ITV has confirmed that it has pulled the plug on the summer season of its hit reality show Love Island amid the coronavirus pandemic. ITV director of television Kevin Lygo said: "We have tried every which way to make Love Island this summer but logistically it's just not possible to produce it in a way that safeguards…

Editors' Note: The television business is in a state of flux as the global coronavirus pandemic continues to claim thousands of lives and hit the economy. This is one of several stories that will look at how the non-scripted industry is dealing with the crisis. ABC's American Idol is supposed to begin airing live…

Amazon has wrapped Love Island France weeks early after South Africa declared a national disaster as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The ITV Studios-produced reality show was filmed at a villa near Cape Town, but production has ground to halt as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on TV and film productions across the…

British broadcaster ITV’s total revenue increased 3% in 2019 to £3.8B ($4.9B) after the company’s production arm ITV Studios performed ahead of expectations. The studio, which makes hits including Love Island and Hell’s Kitchen, increased its revenue by 9% year-on-year to £1.9B in the 12 months to December 2019. This…

ITV Studios is hopeful that broadcasters around the world are going to double down on Love Island after the reality show moved to two seasons a year in the UK. The Hell’s Kitchen studio is also planning its next expansion moves, as it looks to acquire more third-party formats and partner with producers in Latin…

Love Island has returned and paid an emotional tribute to Caroline Flack, the UK reality show’s former presenter who died on Saturday. In Love Island‘s first episode since Flack took her own life, narrator Iain Stirling opened the show with some words about his former colleague set to scenes of rolling seas and rugged…