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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ITV Says Studios Arm Will Grow 'Faster Than The Global Content Market' This Year Amid Sale Speculation & Q1 Results
ITV Studios will grow 'faster than the global content market' this year, ITV has said, although turnover in the production-distribution arm remained virtually flat during the first quarter of this year. Delivering a trading update in the week that Deadline dove deep into a potential ITV sale, the 70-year-old British outfit said revenue, profit and margin will be weighted to the second half of this year 'due to the timing of cost savings and high-margin deliveries.' ITV Studios' full-year margin will be lower than 2024, it added, which 'reflects the change in sales mix as the market recovers following the U.S. strikes.' More from Deadline ProSiebenSat.1 Media Sees Q1 Profits Dive 39% As "Very Cyclically Sensitive" TV Ad Market Bites Fremantle's Q1 Revenue Drops 5.6% Due To "Budget Cuts" At Networks & Streamers Suranne Jones & Jodie Whittaker ITV Drama 'Frauds' Adds Talisa Garcia, Karan Gill, Elizabeth Berrington & Christian Cooke ITV Studios' revenue rose by just 1% for the three months to March 31 like-for-like to hit £386M ($512B). Notably, 'external revenue,' the amount it makes from global buyers, shot up by 20%, while it was hit by a 26% drop in 'internal revenue' impacted by Saturday Night Takeaway and drama series The Tower not returning. Global wins included Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge, which is co-produced by ITV Studios-owned The Garden. ITV Studios delivered record profits for full year 2024. Overall, ITV posted quarterly revenue of £875M, a decline of just 1% on the prior year's first quarter. Revs in its media and entertainment division were down 3% to £489M. 'ITV Studios returned to growth following the impact of the US strikes and is on course to achieve good growth in total revenue over the full year, weighted towards H2 as previously guided,' said CEO Carolyn McCall. 'While the macroeconomic environment is uncertain, we remain confident that our strategic initiatives, our focus on financial and cost discipline and our diversified revenue and customer base will enable us to successfully navigate an evolving market landscape and deliver long-term value to our shareholders.' ITV is currently the subject of fevered sale speculation and the sale of ITV Studios as a separate entity is one possible option being floated. At the network's AGM earlier this week, Chairman Andrew Cosslett faced difficult questions over its stubborn 77p share price, which dipped slightly today, with one investor demanding to know when the figure will rise. 'If someone approaches with an offer we have to take interest and it's very clear from the room that there are lots of people interested in getting the share price up,' said Cosslett on Tuesday. RedBird IMI and Banijay are both reported to be interested in ITV. Best of Deadline Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far 'Bridgerton' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
ITV To Cut 220 Jobs In Major Daytime Overhaul
ITV has just finished briefing staff on a major overhaul of its daytime schedule, which will dramatically scale back the airtime devoted to shows like Loose Women and Lorraine. ITV will make more than 220 redundancies under the sweeping changes, but it has promised to reinvest all savings into more streaming-friendly content, including drama and sport. More from Deadline International Insider: Cruise In Cannes; Standing Ovations; Chinese Box Office Future ITV Says Studios Arm Will Grow "Faster Than The Global Content Market" This Year Amid Sale Speculation & Q1 Results Suranne Jones & Jodie Whittaker ITV Drama 'Frauds' Adds Talisa Garcia, Karan Gill, Elizabeth Berrington & Christian Cooke That 220 figure represents around half the 450 employees who produce output across ITV Studios-produced Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women. Under the plans, ITV will scale back Loose Women and Lorraine by at least 42%, meaning they will go from broadcasting 52 weeks of the year to 30 weeks. Furthermore, Lorraine's run time will be halved to 30 minutes. ITV is planning to move Good Morning Britain to ITN, which produces ITV News. The hope is that this will reduce overlap between the two services and improve newsgathering. More follows Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt Denzel Washington's Career In Pictures: From 'Carbon Copy' To 'The Equalizer 3'
The Sun
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Shock update on Doc Martin three years after it left screens
DOC Martin is getting an American revamp. The hit ITV show, which starred Martin Clunes as Dr Martin Ellingham, ended in 2022 after 18 years. Now, it has been rebooted by Fox for viewers across the Pond. Josh Charles from The Good Wife will play the lead in Best Medicine. Highly successful surgeon Dr Martin Best relocates to a small East Coast fishing village, where his abrasive bedside manner quickly offends the town's eccentric residents. The synopsis adds he has to win them over, while dealing with a phobia and his own psychological issues. CHILDREN'S book Crookhaven: The School For Thieves will be the basis of a new BBC family series that's due to premiere on BBC iPlayer next year. It's about young crooks at the Crookhaven School where lessons in deception, forgery, and infiltration are part of the timetable. Jodie's Con the job JODIE WHITTAKER and Suranne Jones will be joined by a host of familiar faces for their new ITV thriller heist drama series, Frauds. The series tells the story of Bert and Sam, whose toxic friendship will be pushed to the ultimate test as Bert tries to lure her pal out of criminal retirement to pull off a multi-million-pound art heist. 10 Lost Boys and Fairies actress Elizabeth Berrington and I May Destroy You's Karan Gill will play a master illusionist and world's greatest forger. The six-part series will air later this year. Talisa Garcia will play drag star Miss Take, who becomes intertwined in the criminal plan, and Christian Cooke takes on the role of moneylender Deegs. Jodie Whittaker speaks out on Doctor Who future Cast One Laughing IT'S all about keeping a straight face, but TV hit Last One Laughing UK has given its makers plenty to smile about after a second season got the green light. And I can reveal bosses are toasting their success by lining up a fresh batch of comics to take part. 10 Top of their wish list for the follow-up to this year's first ever British series, which was won by Bob Mortimer, are legendary duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French. They also hope to sign Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Josh Widdicombe and Lucy Beaumont to the next instalment of the Prime Video show. A TV insider told me: 'After the first series went down so well, there's confidence an even better line-up can be secured. 'Getting either Jennifer or Dawn will be a major coup, but there'll be no shortage of takers. 'It's only a day's work and their efforts would be broadcast to millions globally.' The Last One Laughing franchise has been a worldwide hit. Here in the UK, ten comedy 'legends', including Bob, Richard Ayoade, Daisy May Cooper, Rob Beckett, Joe Lycett and Joe Wilkinson, were tasked with making each other laugh over a six-hour period in a Big Brother -style house, with cameras following their every move. But they risked being banished from the game if host Jimmy Carr or his sidekick Roisin Conaty spotted them sporting so much as a smirk. Series two will comprise six 30-minute episodes and begin filming later this year, with a view to airing in 2026. Jimmy said of a second series: 'I'm delighted. I think someone high up at Amazon clicked 'subscribe and save' on Prime Video and, hey presto, we're back. 'I'm so pleased people had as much fun watching the first season as we had making it.' He added: 'I can't wait to bask in the reflected glory of the next ten comedy legends taking on the challenge.' Something to look forward to. Midwives get in 70s groove IT first focused on the post-war 'Baby Boom' in 1957 when it hit screens on the BBC more than a decade ago, and Call The Midwife finally reached the 1970s earlier this year. Now, first-look images from the set of the new series, which will be screened early in 2026, show how the drama has firmly shifted into a new decade. 10 While Helen George is back in her signature uniform as midwife Trixie Franklin, one of the latest Nonnatus House nurses, Renee Bailey's Joyce Highland, sports a colourful dress as she gets busy fundraising in the behind-the-scenes peek. She's later seen dressed as an angel for the Christmas show, alongside Natalie Quarry's Rosalind Clifford. Filming for series 15 is currently taking place in London's East End, and will begin with a two-part Christmas special which sees characters travel to Hong Kong on a mercy mission. It comes after it was revealed that Call The Midwife would return with a film, and a prequel series, which will step further back in time, being set during the Second World War. The prequel will offer a view of life in Poplar, East London, during the Blitz, which showrunners have promised will feature 'some familiar (if much younger) faces'. 10
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
BBC's "ludicrous" thriller from Line of Duty team is confirmed to be returning
BBC thriller Vigil has been confirmed to be returning. The third season of the show from Line of Duty team World Productions will see the returns of Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie as inspectors Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre as they tackle a new case. Vigil's first season, which premiered in 2021, focused on a murder on a navy submarine, while the second followed over two years later and centred on a new case of a drone attack. The show, which we previously branded "gripping" albeit "less solidly entertaining" in our season two review, has garnered mixed reactions over the years. It has been described as "thrilling", "superbly acted", "slightly overcooked" and "ludicrous" by various fans (via IMDb). At the time of writing, Vigil's first season boasts a fresh 85% score on Rotten Tomatoes, while the second season falls behind at 54%. Related: Best streaming services The returning season will begin filming later this year, with the storyline taking viewers to a remote Arctic station as a member of a covert British special forces mission is shot dead. Amy and Kirsten "will need to catch the killer and diffuse a potential international confrontation" that is "driven by a land-grab for energy and resources in the changing polar climate", while the pair's careers and relationship hang in the balance. "I can't wait to return to Vigil series three, see our brilliant team in Scotland and work with Rose again," Jones said. "I'm sure it will be a thrill of a ride." Leslie added: "I can't wait to get stuck into another season of Vigil, to work with the wonderful Suranne Jones again and our brilliant crew. And this time, Kirsten will get to pack her bags and join Amy on what's set to be Vigil's most high-stakes mission yet!" Related: "I'm delighted that Suranne and Rose are returning for a new adventure," creator Tom Edge said. "In our third season, we travel to the frozen north where the world's great powers are competing to secure advantages as the ice melts. "With a brilliant cast and crew assembling to make the show, we hope to deliver an epic investigation that shines a light on issues that will shape the world we all live in." Edge previously addressed the potential for a third season in 2023, telling Hello! that "it has to feel like there's something urgent to be said, both on a character level and in terms of the domain that we may enter to unpack those questions". "But I will say, the world does not seem short on turbulence and on questions," he added. Vigil season 3 is yet to confirm a release date. Seasons 1-2 are streaming now on BBC iPlayer. at £18.99 at at at at EE at £99.00 at Amazon at at Audible at at at EE at Amazon£91.40 at at at at at at at at at Game£219.00 at at at Sky Mobile at EE at at at at Game£259.99 at at at at Three at at at at at at at at £79.99 at at Fitbit£49.99 at at AO at at at at at at at at at at at at at at John Lewis at at at at at John Lewis & Partners at at at Amazon at at at at at at at John Lewis at at Amazon at Fitbit£119.99 at at Amazon£184.00 at John Lewis & Partners at Three at at at at at at at at Amazon£699.00 at at Apple at Three£293.81 at at at at at at at at at at at at at John Lewis at EE at at at at at Audible£32.99 at Amazon at at Apple at at EE at at at John Lewis at at at at at Microsoft£79.00 at Samsung£229.00 at John Lewis at at at at at Three at at at at AO£22.00 at Amazon at crunchyroll£449.00 at John Lewis£79.00 at Samsung at at at at Microsoft at at at at Microsoft at John Lewis & Partners£92.98 at at at John Lewis at at at Amazon£269.99 at at now at John Lewis & Partners at at at at Microsoft at at at at John Lewis at at at at £6.65 at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at You Might Also Like PS5 consoles for sale – PlayStation 5 stock and restocks: Where to buy PS5 today? IS MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 THE BEST IN THE SERIES? OUR REVIEW AEW game is a modern mix of No Mercy and SmackDown
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hit drama filmed in Glasgow returns for third series
The BBC has announced the return of hit drama Vigil with a brand new mystery. The third series is due to start filming in Scotland later this year, the previous series was filmed in Glasgow. 📢 Vigil is returning for series three! Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie will return as DCI Amy Silva and DI Kirsten Longacre in a brand new mystery for @BBCiPlayer and @BBCOne. Filming starts in Scotland later this year Read more ➡️ — BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) February 19, 2025 Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie return as DCI Amy Silva and DI Kirsten Longacre. READ MORE: Their new case takes them to a remote Arctic research station, where a member of a covert British special forces mission has been shot dead. Premiering in 2021, when Silva was enlisted to solve a murder on a navy submarine in Scottish waters, Vigil is one of the UK's most successful dramas this decade. READ MORE: Series two, which aired in 2023 and focused on a deadly drone attack, launched to nearly nine million viewers and was in the BBC's top three most-watched dramas of the year. Suranne Jones said: "I can't wait to return to Vigil series three, see our brilliant team in Scotland and work with Rose again. "I'm sure it will be a thrill of a ride." Rose Leslie added: "I can't wait to get stuck into another season of Vigil, to work with the wonderful Suranne Jones again and our brilliant crew. "And this time, Kirsten will get to pack her bags and join Amy on what's set to be Vigil's most high-stakes mission yet."
