“Love Island” is enjoying its moment in the sun in the U.K. ratings, and now ITV has sealed new international deals for the hit reality format. Free TV broadcaster TV3 has ordered local versions of the sun and fun series for Denmark and Norway, and MTV3 has it for Finland.
ITV successfully rebooted the show after an earlier incarnation focused on celebrities. The format deals come in the same week that the show’s fourth season picked up where the previous run left off in setting ratings records on ITV’s ITV2 channel. The series opener gave the free-to-air channel its best-ever ratings, with 2.9 million viewers and a 16.4% share.
ITV Studios Global Entertainment distributes the ITV Studios and Motion Content Group-produced show. The new deals mean the distributor has completed a clean sweep in the Nordics, with a Swedish series already greenlit. RTL2 in Germany and Nine Network...
ITV successfully rebooted the show after an earlier incarnation focused on celebrities. The format deals come in the same week that the show’s fourth season picked up where the previous run left off in setting ratings records on ITV’s ITV2 channel. The series opener gave the free-to-air channel its best-ever ratings, with 2.9 million viewers and a 16.4% share.
ITV Studios Global Entertainment distributes the ITV Studios and Motion Content Group-produced show. The new deals mean the distributor has completed a clean sweep in the Nordics, with a Swedish series already greenlit. RTL2 in Germany and Nine Network...
- 6/8/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Smash hit British reality format Love Island is set to flirt across Scandinavia after ITV Studios sold a number of local versions.
The British distributor has secured commissions in Denmark, Finland and Norway, taking the total number of versions of the dating format to seven.
TV3 has ordered a local version in Denmark and Norway, while MTV3 has picked it up in Finland. United Productions, Itvs Norway and Itvs Finland will produce locally. Norwegian popstar Tone Damli will host in Norway, while model Shirly Karvinen will host in Finland.
The new deals come after the latest season of Love Island smashed ratings records in the UK – beating all terrestrial broadcasters to launch with 3M viewers. The show has also been a success in Australia on Nine Network and in Germany via RTL2. It is produced by ITV Studios Entertainment in association with Motion Content Group.
Mike Beale, Managing Director, Nordics...
The British distributor has secured commissions in Denmark, Finland and Norway, taking the total number of versions of the dating format to seven.
TV3 has ordered a local version in Denmark and Norway, while MTV3 has picked it up in Finland. United Productions, Itvs Norway and Itvs Finland will produce locally. Norwegian popstar Tone Damli will host in Norway, while model Shirly Karvinen will host in Finland.
The new deals come after the latest season of Love Island smashed ratings records in the UK – beating all terrestrial broadcasters to launch with 3M viewers. The show has also been a success in Australia on Nine Network and in Germany via RTL2. It is produced by ITV Studios Entertainment in association with Motion Content Group.
Mike Beale, Managing Director, Nordics...
- 6/8/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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