Sad news out of the UK and for fans of Love Island UK.
This is tragic news. I wish someone had seen the warning signs.
She also once co-hosted The X Factor with Olly Murs (himself a runner-up of the show in 2009) in 2015. However that partnership didn’t last long and Dermot O’Leary returned to the show as main host in 2016.
Caroline Flack’s death is being kept from the contestants on the current season of the UK’s hit reality show Love Island , as TV bosses cancel tonight’s show.
Executives have been in crisis talks about the long-term future of the series and decided to cancel tonight’s show, The Sun reports.
It comes after yesterday’s episode was also cancelled.
As well as the UK version, surely this news casts further doubt (even though it’s highly unlikely to return after last year’s appalling ratings anyway) over the future of Love Island Australia on Nine?
EDIT:
The tone of the first episode back has a much calmer tone than usual, thankfully. Would have felt dirty to bounce along with all the usual one - liners
Please tell me this will get picked up in Oz…
Jane wrote on her website that the 38 cruises and 100+ flights she’d been on for ‘work’ “incredible”, but admitted that she wanted to concentrate on projects closer to home.
Cruising with Jane McDonald currently screens on SBS.
ITV has reduced the number of weekly episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale, and scale back location shooting.
Quick summary of how COVID-19 has affected British TV:
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All soaps down to 2 or 3 episodes a week meaning most have enough in the can to air for about 3 months
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Local continuity in the nations on UTV and BBC2 has been scrapped
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All regional programmes are now solo hosted, with the BBC axing breakfast bulletins and ITV reducing the length of lunchtime and late night bulletins and combining some of the regional 6pm bulletins. STV in Scotland have combined their three regional bulletins into one.
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BBC1 is airing an extra hour of news at 9am and the daily news conferences from 3.45-6pm. The 6pm news is getting around 8m viewers, twice it’s usual figure.
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The BBC News Channel and BBC World have been streamlined and pretty much all branded shows have been scrapped in favour of BBC News branded bulletins, many of which now air on both channels
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Daytime shows Lorraine and Loose Women are off air, although Lorraine is now hosting the extra hour of GMB which airs in the slot. The changes means ITV Daytime only has to operate one studio instead of two.
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C4 bought forward the launch of its new daytime show The Steph Show, being anchored from the hosts home rather than their new Leeds studio.
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As elsewhere sport is non-existent. ITV are going to reshow Euro 96 in May whilst the BBC will be airing classic snooker, football and rerunning key moments from London 2012, including the Opening Ceremony and Super Saturday.
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Britain’s Got Talent auditions will air as normal from later this month, but the week of live shows at the end of May is suspended till the end of August. Similarly The Voice live shows had to be postponed, whilst a new Little Mix fronted talent show has been postponed completely.
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The BBC are rerunning modern classics such as Gavin and Stacey and Outnumbered on Saturday nights.
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Filming of the next seasons of shows including Race Across the World, The Apprentice, The Celebrity Island and Hunted have been postponed
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Filming of dramas including Line of Duty, Call the Midwife and Peaky Blinders have also come to a halt