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To support the increased content needs of ITVX, ITV has today announced that Laura Franses has been appointed into the important new role of Director of Content Partnerships, reporting to Media and Entertainment Content Director Rosemary Newell, and Managing Director of Streaming Rufus Radcliffe.
DNA Journey returns to ITV and ITV Hub next month, as the first of our seven celebrity duos set off on a quest to discover where they come from and unearth secrets from their past in a life changing and emotional voyage of discovery.
Seven of the UK’s main broadcasters have come together to create access and inclusion ‘passports’ that will remove barriers and support better inclusion of disabled people and other colleagues at work. Channel 4, ITV, BBC, STV, UKTV, S4C and Paramount UK have consulted to agree a similar approach which will see broadcasters encouraging staff to communicate their adjustment needs. The access and inclusion passports, adopted from an initiative formally introduced at the BBC in 2019, will be confidential and will support conversations with line managers to ensure disabled colleagues and others get the right support they need at work.
In the week Coronation Street moves to hour long episodes and an 8pm time slot on ITV, the UK’s most watched soap unveils plans for an ambitious new exterior set build…..the Weatherfield Precinct.
ITV has announced it is investing in a partnership with Europe’s biggest new car marketplace carwow, in return for advertising inventory across ITV’s channels and the ITV Hub.
ITV has commissioned three-part relationship drama, Maryland, created by BAFTA and RTS award winning actress, Suranne Jones, and screenwriter Anne- Marie O’Connor, about two sisters who have grown apart over the years, but
through tragic events learn to love and respect one another all over again. Maryland focuses upon the relationship between the sisters, who have been driven apart by complex family dynamics, becoming estranged and wrapped up in their own lives.
ITV has today announced changes in the Media and Entertainment content commissioning division, bringing in complete genre-based commissioning to support ITV’s move to one content budget across platforms, as well as the recently announced digital first windowing strategy.
ITV2 is continuing its partnership with charity CALM for a second year with a new campaign launching on tonight (7th March 2022), encouraging young people to do what works for them to cope with life’s ups and downs. The campaign follows on from a successful first year of partnership, which encouraged 1.1 million young people to take action to help them feel better able to cope with life’s ups and downs.
