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ITV scores Hexagon Cup deal

The Hexagon Cup, the new padel tournament, has announced ITV as its UK broadcast rights holder as it prepares for its inaugural event in Madrid, Spain. The deal will see the Semi-Finals (February 3rd) and the Finals (February 4th) of the tournament live streamed on ITVX, along with a highlights programme on ITV4. The partnership […]

January 16, 2024

Mr Bates vs the Post Office biggest new ITV drama in 10+ years

Mr Bates vs the Post Office is ITV’s biggest new drama in over a decade, even beating the launch of Downton Abbey in 2010. The ITV Studios and Little Gem series has now averaged 9.8 million viewers across its four episodes, including seven day viewing across all devices plus pre-TX viewing. Including post-seven day viewing, […]

January 15, 2024

Luke Littler to make FTA TV debut on ITVX

Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler, the teenage darts sensation and breakout star from the most recent PDC World Darts Championship, in which he entertained millions across the country in becoming the tournament runner-up, can be seen live in action on free to air television this January on ITVX. Littler has been announced as one of the […]

January 10, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Mr Bates vs The Post Office drives strong year start for ITV

The first episode of ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office has been watched by 9.2 million viewers, making it ITV’s best new drama for three years since the Pembrokeshire Murders in January 2021 when the UK was in lockdown. The four episodes are the most watched programmes on any channel so far this year. […]

January 9, 2024

Tiger Aspect orders more animated Mr Bean

Tiger Aspect Kids & Family (a Banijay Kids & Family company), has announced its hit comedy, Mr Bean: The Animated Series, has been commissioned for a fourth run, in partnership with Warner Bros Discovery and ITVX, through deals agreed by Banijay Rights. Executive produced and voiced by Rowan Atkinson, Season 4 will comprise 52 x […]

January 4, 2024

ITVX sees 8m streams on Jan 1st

January 1st saw 8 million streams across ITVX, up on the same day last year by 2.5 million (+44 per cent). And since launch, ITVX reports it is now up to 3 billion streams. In addition, ITV1 had its best New Year’s Day for two years with its all time audience up by +10 per […]

January 2, 2024

ITV launches The Winter King with Burger King stunt

ITVX and Burger King UK have joined forces to bring the historical drama The Winter King to life. Following the much-anticipated launch of the series on December 21st, ITV surprised a lucky customer with their Burger King UK x Winter King Banquet, delivered by a knight in shining armour who looks suspiciously like a Deliveroo […]

December 22, 2023

ITVX celebrates “runaway success” in first year

On December 8th, ITVX will mark its first anniversary. ITV has taken a look back at its inaugural year and all the new streaming platform has achieved, plus a look at what’s coming in 2024 and beyond. ITV says ITVX was “undoubtedly this year’s biggest and most successful streaming launch in the UK” with over […]

November 29, 2023By Nik Roseveare

ITV signs deal for pair of Disney series

ITV has confirmed an agreement with Disney Entertainment making ITV the free-to-air home of the drama series Under the Banner of Heaven starring Andrew Garfield, and season one of British comedy series Extraordinary. Under the Banner of Heaven will  stream on ITVX with Extraordinary airing on both ITVX and ITV2. Both series will air in […]

November 23, 2023By Nik Roseveare

ITV unveils new measurement innovation tools

ITV has unveiled two new measurement innovations, Addressable Lift and TV Auction Boost, to give clients the ability to measure the business outcomes that TV advertising creates including web traffic, sales and profit. Addressable Lift is a pilot programme of full-funnel measurement across brand lift, site lift and sales lift for campaigns at a household […]

November 22, 2023