Well here’s a bit of Love Island goss that’s absolute testament to the stonking success that was this year’s show!
Rumour has it that bosses at ITV1 want to move it over to their channel from ITV2 because of its record viewing figures.
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A show insider reportedly told The Sun that ITV1 are making moves to ‘steal’ the show after the final notched up almost 3.6 million viewers.
The mole claimed that ‘tensions are running high between bosses at both stations’ and that ITV2 are desperate to keep the show.
However, when such rumours surfaced last year, ITV executive Kevin Lygo made light of them at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
The TV Boss claimed the two channels attracted viewers of very different age groups, and that the antics shown on Love Island might not be suitable for the generally older watchers of ITV1.
This, he told an audience during a panel discussion, kept the show on the digital channel.
To further prove his point, Kevin went as far as to joke that ‘old people would die’ if the raunchy show moved channels!
Well, old people should live to see another summer, if the official line from the show is to be believed. Ent Daily was told: “There have been no discussions about moving Love Island from ITV2.”
This year’s huge viewing figures were off the scale though – the show was the most-watched programme in its time slot across all channels, and was up 200,000 viewers from when it first launched.
This has practically guaranteed its re-commissioning going forward – with ITV2 boss Angela Jain telling the Daily Star on Sunday that it could go on for years, and change and grow with each new series.
“It is a show that will evolve and live and breathe,” she said.
“My hope is that it is going to be on telly for the next five years. So who knows where it will go.”
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The surge in the show’s popularity has also meant a huge uptake in applications to appear on it – the figure for this year was put at around 85,000 – although casting producer Lewis Evans told Cosmopolitan not to let the number put you off: “If you think you’ve got what it takes, go for it.”
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