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Love Island spinoff series Love Island Games has been renewed for a second season at Peacock.

The announcement comes days ahead of the Love Island USA season six reunion, which premieres on Monday. The latest installment, hosted by Vanderpump Rules breakout star Ariana Madix, aired earlier this year and reached massive success, quickly becoming the summer’s must-watch reality show.

As for Love Island Games, the series sees fan-favorite Islanders from previous seasons and show versions, including the U.S., U.K. and Australia, coming together as they compete for a second shot at love. However, they are met with more competitions, while also navigating dating, eliminations, recoupling and new bombshells in the villa.

Simon Thomas, Love Island USA executive producer and president of ITV Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter last month that while they don’t want to “overdo” or “overexpose” the franchise, he thinks that “Love Island Games...

Following the sixth season of hit reality sensation Love Island USA, Peacock has announced a second-season renewal of the spin-off Love Island Games.

The show will return in 2025 and feature a brand-new group of fan-favorite Islanders from the US, UK, Australia, and around the world.

Peacock Original Love Island Games brings together cross-franchise fan-favorite Islanders from across the globe for a second shot at love as they compete to be crowned the champion of Love Island Games.

Romance will meet competition as Islanders face team and couple challenges while navigating dating, eliminations, recoupling, and dramatic new arrivals. Season 1 is currently available to stream exclusively on Peacock. You can see what else is coming to Peacock here.

According to Nielsen, the recent sixth season of Peacock’s Love Island USA was the #1 most-watched streaming Original reality series in the U.S., with over 1 billion minutes watched. ITV Entertainment, an ITV America company,...

Exclusive: Following the breakout success of Season 6 of Love Island on Peacock, the streamer is bringing back the dating show’s spinoff for a second season.

Love Island Games, which features Islanders from across the globe, is returning to the NBCU streamer. Its first season premiered in November.

The deal comes after the Ariana Madix-hosted Love Island USA doubled its audience of previous seasons, with sources suggesting that it recently became one of Peacock’s top-performing shows on the entire platform.

David George, CEO of ITV America, recently told Deadline that the company, which produces Love Island and Love Island Games, is keen to expand the Love Island universe, so this isn’t a bad step.

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George told Deadline: “There are conversations around how we create the Love Island universe. That’s a very positive thing. Once you...

[This story contains spoilers from the season six finale of Love Island USA.]

Simon Thomas, Love Island USA executive producer and president of ITV Entertainment, may have been on an island this summer, but he definitely wasn’t relaxing. He was bringing this summer’s must-watch reality show to life.

Season six of Peacock’s beloved dating completion series, filmed in Fiji and hosted by Vanderpump Rules star Ariana Madix, could be one of the most dramatic and surprising seasons of the show’s U.S. iteration. From shocking dumpings that had the villa arguing for weeks to questionable actions in Casa Amor (the ultimate Love Island test), this season had fans flocking to social media to weigh in and share their reactions. And ultimately, Serena Page and Kordell Beckham captured fans’ hearts the most to be named the winners.

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“This felt like a group [of Islanders] who were very attractive, but very human and all had something there that...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Peacock's Love Island USA Season 6.After 36 episodes of one of the franchise's fan favorite seasons, Love Island USA season 6 has crowned its winners: Serena Page and Kordell Beckham. The two were coupled up during the season's first episode, but were also coupled with others during the season, before reuniting for good. After the announcement of their win, the two faced a final villa challenge. Presented with two envelopes, one held the grand prize of $100,000, the other empty. The Islander choosing the winning envelope could keep it all or share it with their partner. Beckham selected the winning envelope and chose to share it with Page.

Alongside Page and Beckham, JaNa Craig and Kenny Rodriguez, Nicole Jacky and Kendall Washington and Leah Kateb and Miguel Harichi made up the season's final four couples. The final episode featured the final on-screen dates for all the couple.

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