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Exciting and new? CBS will try again to launch a successful dating show by ordering to series The Real Love Boat, a reality competition series that’s inspired by the classic ’70s series that took place on Princess Cruises ships. The U.S. network and Australian Broadcaster Network 10 will jointly commission localized…

The next phase of ITVs digital strategy is here as the network launches a streaming service called ITVX that will air shows months before they arrive on linear, while posting impressive revenue and profit growth and record advertising spend. Launching later this year or next with both an AVoD and SVoD option, ITVX…

The sexy singletons are heading to Peacock. Love Island, the dating format based on the British smash hit, is moving from CBS to Peacock. The NBCUniversal streamer has given the series, which comes from ITV America, a two-season, 80-episode order. It comes after the youth-skewing series ran for three seasons on…

Climate Change TV Fund Launches An organisation has been launched to help develop more TV shows and films about climate change. Climate Spring has attracted funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and Gower Street Trust and is being led by film producers James Durrant and Josh Cockroft, along with climate…

Love Island crowned Olivia Kaiser and Korey Gandy winners of its third season last month in Hawaii. CBS is now hopeful that the summer reality series will return for a fourth season. CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl told Deadline that he was "looking at" its renewal potential. "No decision has been made yet but…

ITV's Director of Television Kevin Lygo has defended the viewing figures and rejected criticism of its ITV2 jewel Love Island, following the finale of the fifth series of the show earlier this week, saying claims the show is past its peak are well off the mark. With ratings for the finale down on previous years, Lygo…

CBS ruled Sunday ratings with the latest episode of Big Brother. The network kicked of its Sunday lineup in the 8-9 p.m. time slot with the Big Brother, which took home a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demo and aired to 3.71 million viewers, per fast affiliates. The reality series, which returned from the weekend slightly…

Big Brother Season 23 handed CBS the keys to an impressive Wednesday night. The long-running reality series returned to CBS scoring a 1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.01 million viewers, becoming both the highest-rated and most-watched  program of the evening. The latest season premiere of Big Brother…

Love Island, the CBS show based on the steamy British format, is set to get a lot more saucy this season thanks to streaming. Paramount+ is to air a raft of exclusive programming from the the youth-skewing dating series as the show, now in its third season, starts to make more sense for the ViacomCBS corporation. The…

The UK version of Love Island suffered a security breach on Tuesday night after YouTube prankster Omer Majid broke into the villa complex in Mallorca, Spain. Producers said the trespasser was removed immediately after he managed to find a way past Love Island’s tight security protocols. The intrusion is particularly…

UPDATE: ITV said an average of 1M people streamed the full Love Island episode on ITV Hub. PREVIOUS: Love Island failed to sizzle on its return to British television on Monday night, as gripping sporting action from Euro 2020 and Wimbledon provided fierce competition in the battle for ratings. After a Covid-enforced…

It’s the battle of the UK reality dating shows, as Netflix’s Too Hot To Handle and the British version of Love Island are set to premiere within days of each other. Produced by Fremantle’s Thames and Talkback, Too Hot To Handle is first out of the blocks. The show will premiere on June 23, following the travails of…