{"id":363127,"date":"2025-08-21T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:12:12","slug":"itv-eyes-move-to-itv2-for-next-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363127\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV EYES MOVE TO ITV2 FOR NEXT SERIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-o9fvz11320\">ITV boss Kevin Lygo has suggested Celebrity Big Brother could air on ITV2 from next series, but confirmed the show would return next year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d56877_53064df3d71745f082e8b480dac5f25e~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"ree\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvzoneuk.com\/post\/celebrity-big-brother-itv-eyes-move-to-itv2-for-next-series\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/d56877_53064df3d71745f082e8b480dac5f25e~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1280,h_720,al_c,q_85\/d56877_53064df3d71745f082e8b480dac5f25e~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-n9p4p5566\">Speaking at the annual Edinburgh TV Festival, ITV controller Kevin Lygo commented: &#8220;Celebrity Big Brother we&#8217;re looking at. We&#8217;re thinking not on the main channel, that&#8217;s the answer. It&#8217;s so difficult now to book big celebrities, famous people, which is what we need on the main channel. Whereas you can go more interesting and niche on ITV2.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-4rcd46319\">Lygo continued: &#8220;We&#8217;re in a battle with Endemol about the price. It does really well for us on ITVX. It&#8217;s a really important, crucial show. I love it and it does a tremendous job for us so, yes, it&#8217;s coming back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-918lp19792\">Meanwhile, ITV have confirmed that the upcoming civilian series will consist of 42 episodes, airing Sunday-Friday from Sunday 28th September. The series will run for seven weeks, a week longer than previous ITV series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-r9lx716692\">Big Brother, hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best, will see a new cast of carefully selected housemates, from all walks of life, take up residence in the Big Brother house as they arrive at the famous destination in front of a live studio audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-ga4s513955\">The iconic Big Brother house will play host to all the action &#8211; clever tasks, nail-biting nominations and live evictions will be back. The public once again plays a crucial role, voting throughout the series and ultimately determining the winner, who will walk away with a life changing cash prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-viewer-ei5q9407\">Big Brother will be followed each night by Big Brother: Late &amp; Live &#8211; hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best in front of a studio audience &#8211; giving viewers an additional hour of exclusive Big Brother content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LThh9 tL1tz t3L08 qufKF\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-id8nw16295\">More details will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV boss Kevin Lygo has suggested Celebrity Big Brother could air on ITV2 from next series, but confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115069055523713653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}