ITV has delayed production on its blockbuster entertainment show Britain’s Got Talent as coronavirus rampages across the UK.
22.12.2020 - 20:50 / deadline.com
British broadcaster ITV has dropped a regular Coronation Street director after he wrote a series of Facebook posts undermining concerns about systemic diversity problems in the UK television industry.
Steve Finn’s Facebook missives were spotted by HuffPost UK and were posted during the week of the Edinburgh TV Festival in August, when diversity was at the forefront of most virtual sessions at the industry talking shop.
Headlining the festival was historian David Olusoga, who delivered an
ITV has delayed production on its blockbuster entertainment show Britain’s Got Talent as coronavirus rampages across the UK.
Robert Moore, the Washington correspondent for Britain’s ITV News, has gone viral and won widespread praise from peers for an extraordinary report following Donald Trump’s supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
The country's top soaps will not shut down like last summer – despite the UK entering another national lockdown. It appears EastEnders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street are to carry on filming despite the latest strict government coronavirus restrictions.
The Masked Singer returns for its second series in the UK. Joel Dommett has returned for hosting duties, while the four panellists guessing along with the (masked) studio audience are returning judges Jonathan Ross, Rita Ora and Davina McCall, along with new recruit Mo Gilligan (taking the place of Ken Jeong, who's been focusing on his judging role on the US series due to travel logistics).
As the coronavirus pandemic hit advertising revenue across the media industry and the future relationship between the U.K. and the European Union after Brexit remained unclear until a trade deal unveiled just in time for the holidays, British TV giant ITV's stock had a particularly difficult 2021.