EXCLUSIVE: Motion Content Group, the WPP-backed business that has co-produced and financed international hits including reality format Love Island and Syfy's Western horror thriller Wynonna Earp, is one of the most recondite TV producers and financiers in the industry. The company, which is in 26 international markets…

British Health Minister Matt Hancock has warned broadcasters and producers to do more to look after reality TV contestants following the death of Love Island contestant Mike Thalassitis.

Thalassitis, who died over the weekend, is the latest star of the ITV2 reality series to have reportedly died by suicide in recent ye…

Love Island is heading to Belgium, Netherlands and Poland, taking the total number of territories hosting the sexy reality series to 11.

This comes ahead of the launch of the U.S. version, which is set to debut on CBS later this year.

ITV Studios has closed deals with Polsat, where the Polish series will be produced…

Love Island is heading back to Australia for a second season and is in "active" pre-production in the U.S. as the reality entertainment format wowed buyers in Cannes this week.

The ITV Studios format was one of the most talked about entertainment formats at Mipcom, helped largely by six of the international cast…

ITV America CEO David George has lifted the lid on his company's recently streamlined strategy, discussing how the production group is keeping Netflix's Queer Eye fresh, working with CBS to make Love Island a hit in the U.S. and finding his next non-scripted hit.

George was promoted to the top job in January following…

EXCLUSIVE: The UK reality phenom Love Island is getting an American version. CBS has nabbed the U.S. format rights to the smash hit British dating competition series, from  ITV Studios and Motion Content Group. CBS has given a series order to the adaptation, to be produced by ITV Entertainment.

Love Island features a…

Motion Content Group, the WPP-company that invests in and co-produces series including ITV2's Love Island and Channel 4's The Jump, bolstered its revenues by 20% and profits by 63% over its last financial year.

The business, which was rebranded from GroupM Entertainment in May 2017, recorded revenue of £43.4M (US$56M)…

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 acti…

Smash hit British reality format Love Island is set to flirt across Scandinavia after ITV Studios sold a number of local versions.

The British distributor has secured commissions in Denmark, Finland and Norway, taking the total number of versions of the dating format to seven.

TV3 has ordered a local version in Denmark…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: UK broadcaster Channel 4 is hunting its own Love Island-style stripped reality series as it continues its push to attract younger viewers. I hear that the network is searching for a "Machiavellian" entertainment format for its youth-skewing station E4 and is in talks with a slew of production companies.

The…

As it prepares to welcome new CEO Carolyn McCall in January, ITV laid out its 2017 first-half earnings on Wednesday with revenue declines it said were in line with expectations. For the six months ended June 30, revenues were down 3% to £1.46B ($1.9B) while adjusted EBITDA dipped 8% to £403M ($525M) and pre-tax profit…