SNL creator Lorne Michaels will executive produce the UK edition, with casting to be announced in the coming months ahead of the show’s premiere (on Sky Max and NOW) next year.
ITV Be is to relaunch as ITV Quiz in June, with reality shows moving to ITV2.
Not quite.
ITV Play was a British free-to-air television channel… …devoted exclusively to phone-in quiz show programmes, expanding upon ITV1 and ITV2’s late-night quiz programmes such as Quizmania and The Mint.
BBC medical soap Casualty will be put out to competitive tender, having been produced in-house since 1986. The BBC will retain all rights to the show and it will continue to be shown on the broadcaster, but the tendering process will decide which production company makes it.
Sky News UK reports Alex Mahon’s new role will be to run live entertainment group Superstruct, which operates Cornwall’s Boardmasters festival, Barcelona’s Sónar and another circa-80 music festivals across Europe and Australia.
Banijay would control basically the 7.30pm slot on Aussie TV
The article notes 5 are also looking at some Cricket rights, as they look to expand their sports coverage.
- Good Morning Britain to become part of ITV News; will run from 6-9.30am
- Lorraine Kelly’s show to be cut to half an hour and only run 30 weeks a year
- Loose Women will also only run for 30 weeks
- Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women to be produced by one team
45 years after ITN applied for the very first ITV Breakfast franchise they’ll finally get to produce it