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Love Island appears to be losing its sizzle. The British reality show’s summer season premiere lost more than a million viewers when compared with last year, according to TV and streaming figures supplied by ITV. Love Island returned for its tenth season last night with 1.3M viewers on…

EXCLUSIVE: Scandi podcasting outfit PodX has deepened its push into the UK market with the acquisition of a majority stake in Love Island: The Morning After and The Gemma Collins Podcast maker Listen. Listen becomes the seventh company and second from the UK to join PodX’s growing empire in the space…

Love Island, the smash hit global format that airs on Peacock in the U.S., is getting its first ever spinoff. Love Island Games, a spinoff of the dating reality series, has scored a date on the NBCU streamer. Set to launch in the fall of 2023, the series will bring together Islanders from the U.S.…

Jeremy Clarkson’s “awful” comments about Meghan Markle have had “no washover onto the ITV brand,” according to CEO Carolyn McCall. Addressing the now-disgraced Sun column from the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host this morning, McCall said she believed her team had “handled it well.” Clarkson…

ITV’s profits slid by more than 12% last year reflecting “planned investment in content and ITVX,” according to the network. Unveiling its full-year 2022 results in the past few minutes, the Love Island and Nolly commercial broadcaster showed a revenue boost of 7% to £4.3B ($5.2B) but adjusted EBITDA…

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island distributor ITV Studios has hired a Disney sales exec on the eve of the London TV Screenings. Cristina Brun has been named VP of Sales for France, Italy and Iberia with the ITV Studios Global Distribution team. She’ll report to David Wilcox, SVP EMEA, who in turn reports…

Motion Content Group, an industrious producer and co-financier of Love Island, Wynonna Earp and some 1,800 other series globally, is rebranding as GroupM Motion Entertainment in North America. The move comes amid a broader pivot toward premium programming. Motion Content, already…

There's change afoot at Love Island seller ITV Studios. Current ITV Studios Managing Director of Global Distribution Ruth Berry has been upped to lead a unified global commercial division. This will comprise her Global Distribution arm and ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Arjan Pomper…

Love Island contestants will have their social media accounts taken away for the duration of the upcoming winter season and receive “guidance and training around mutually respectful behavior in relationships” following thousands of complaints earlier this year. For the first time in the show’s…

Love Island UK is returning this winter to bring in the heat and ITV has dropped the first teaser for the new season featuring new host Maya Jama. The short video features Jama’s silhouette before the iconic transitional Love Island tune plays and the new host is revealed. “New year, new…

Complaints both berating and defending Matt Hancock and his participation in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! dominate UK regulator Ofcom’s top-10 list of most complained about TV incidents of the year. Just shy of 2,000 complainants “objected to the inclusion” of the former Health Secretary in…

‘Love Island’ Heads To Israel Israel has become the latest destination to embrace Love Island, with ITV Studios-backed Armoza Formats set to produce a local version for new Keshet streamer Free TV. Filming will take place in May for a summer air date, as Israel becomes the 26th territory to…