With key creative talent from both Love Island and I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, this session looks at how these shows successfully retain audiences year on year, focusing on three key teams – Casting Team, Challenge Team and Story Team. This session was part of the RTS Futures Virtual Careers Fair 2022.
The film-makers behind The Real “Des”: The Dennis Nilsen Story reunited for another hard-hitting ITV documentary shown last month, but this time with a heroine at its centre. The Real Anne: Unfinished Business aired as a companion piece to ITV’s four-part drama Anne. The latter starred Maxine Peake as Hillsborough justice campaigner Anne Williams, who lost her son Kevin at the UK’s worst sporting disaster in 1989.
Jed Mercurio is bringing his trademark high-octane thrills to ITV with a new drama set in a bomb disposal squad. Sunday-night viewers are currently being subjected to big bangs and nerve-shredding tension as a bombing campaign terrorises London.
Trigger Point stars Vicky McClure as an “expo”, a bomb disposal officer who takes the “long walk” towards a suspect device before attempting to defuse it.
West Berlin, 1963. A young man picks up a familiar-looking pair of glasses from his bedside table to look at a beautiful woman taking a bath. Soon after, he picks up a newspaper, pausing to draw a moustache on a picture of President de Gaulle. The detail is rich, evocative and clear evidence of ITV’s determination that its engrossing new big-budget six-parter, The Ipcress File will both pay respectful tribute to the acclaimed 1965 film, but also find a fresh audience on its own merits.
Presented by Geordie duo Ant & Dec, the first was the channel’s biggest brand-new entertainment series since The Masked Singer, with 6.1 million viewers tuning in for the premiere.
The format broke new ground with its never-ending money ladder, which dangled the world's first unlimited jackpot in front of contestants.
The first two episodes alone saw big wins as NHS workers Will and Kathryn took home £500,000, and father and son Tony and Zee winning £250,000.
Presented by Anita Rani, Fastest Finger First will give contestants a chance to win a prize money can’t buy, a guaranteed place on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire...? and the possibility of winning a million pounds.
Every year, so many people apply to be on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire…? that getting onto the show is a win in itself.
The new show will see five contestants take it in turns to try and get as high as possible up the question ladder.
The Strictly Come Dancing professional will preside over musical matchmaking, with singletons standing on a beautiful balcony while being serenaded by suitors they can hear but not see.
They will have just one song to entice the singleton down from the balcony, and only then will they meet face-to-face.
If successful, the newly matched couples will then go on a duet-date to learn a duet to perform in a battle against all the other couples upon their return. Only one couple will be crowned winners.
Joe Lycett takes his first steps in his walking boots for the new series of Travel Man, replacing Richard Ayoade after nine series.
For his first outing, Lycett will explore the sights of Iceland with comedian Bill Bailey.
The duo’s first new series in over 10 years will revolve around “the world’s first limitless money ladder.”
Contestants climb the ladder with every question they correctly answer. They will also need to do so to bank the cash.
It is a recipe for jeopardy that is hinted at in the dramatic promo which sees Ant and Dec reacting with shock and horror for reasons as yet unknown.
The new six-part series will see the return of Kate (Brenda Blethyn) and Koji, who will now be played by Okorie Chukwu as he takes over the role from Jimmy Akingbola.
Blake Harrison and Barbara Flynn will reprise their roles as ‘Medium’ and Councillor Bone.
Written and created by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, the comedy tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a working-class woman who owns a café near the seaside and an asylum-seeking African doctor.
Production on the second series was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic but can now move forward.
