ITVX AND WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY ANNOUNCE NEW BRANDED CONTENT PARTNERSHIP QUEST
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Under a new branded content partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery and ITV, over 2000 hours of TLC and Quest content will be made available for streaming on dedicated TLC and Quest branded collections on ITVX over the next year
The partnership launches on Thursday 1 October with Mock the Week Series 1, The Bad Skin Clinic Series 1 and Dr. Pimple Popper Series 1
The agreement will later give ITVX users access to other titles from TLC's brand-new comedy line-up including Zero Stars featuring Sara Pascoe and Roisin Conaty and Unacceptable hosted by Ed Gamble, as well as reality series from the 90 Day Fianc and Say Yes to the Dress franchises
In coming months, ITVX will also welcome a Quest-branded collection which will include titles from the Salvage Hunters and Shed & Buried franchises, alongside Vinnie Jones in the Country and Richard Hammond's Workshop
1 October 2026 - LONDON, UK - Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and ITV have today announced a new partnership which will see over 2000 hours of TLC and Quest's content made available to viewers on ITVX in the UK over the next year, via dedicated branded collections on the platform.
The partnership gives ITVX users access to a curated selection of series from WBD's free-to-air networks portfolio via brand collections, beginning this month with the latest slate of comedy entertainment from TLC, alongside the channel's deep reality-genre library, enabling TLC to bring its great new entertainment offer to an even bigger audience.
From 1 October, ITVX viewers will be able to watch the first series of TLC's comedy show Mock the Week, hosted by Dara Briain with series regular Rhys James. Reality titles available from launch include the first series of Dr. Pimple Popper and The Bad Skin Clinic. Other reality titles coming to the collection later in the year include select seasons from the UK and US editions of the 90 Day Fianc and Say Yes to the Dress franchises.
Further comedy titles will continue to drop in the TLC collection on ITVX throughout the year and into 2027, including Zero Stars, a comedy take on the travelogue format with Sara Pascoe and Roisin Conaty; and the first series of TLC's new comedy panel show Unacceptable - hosted by Ed Gamble and featuring Richard Ayaode and Joanne McNally as team captains alongside guests including, Maisie Adam, Ivo Graham, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Lucy Beaumont. TLC will also welcome new series Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack, hosted by Katherine Ryan and team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson, to the channel in early 2027. The title will then be available in ITVX's TLC collection later in the year.
The new second series of Mock the Week (which began 13 September) and Unacceptable (coming in November) will continue to premiere at 9pm on Sundays on TLC and via catch-up on discovery . The series will then be available in ITVX's TLC collection in 2027.
As well as TLC's extensive library, later in the year popular motoring antiques and restoration series will also be available in a Quest-branded collection, including titles from the Salvage Hunters and Shed & Buried franchises, alongside Vinnie Jones in the Country and Richard Hammond's Workshop.
Graham Lafferty, SVP Content Strategy & Networks, UK&I, Warner Bros. Discovery said: We're delighted to announce this partnership with ITV today to bring TLC's new-look content to its broad ITVX audience. The combination of TLC's local comedy originals and global reality franchises brings something to the platform for every user, whether it's the return of Mock the Week, brand-new Unacceptable hosted by Ed Gamble, or some of our hugely successful global franchises such as Dr. Pimple Popper. We're looking forward to expanding the partnership with Quest programming also coming to ITVX later in the year.
Craig Morris, Director of Channels, ITVX & Acquisitions, ITV said: Im delighted that were able to bring the best of TLC and Quests programming to ITVXs 20 million monthly viewers. Ive long admired brands like Mock The Week, 90 Day Fianc and Salvage Hunters, so Im delighted were able to supplement our own programming with these brilliantly bingeable titles.
TLC became free-to-air in the UK in January 2026, relaunching as a broad entertainment channel with a mix of scripted and unscripted content, including multi-award-winning scripted comedy, local originals and global reality franchises. TLC is available on all major platforms in the UK including Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freely.1
Viewers can stream TLC content from 1st October on ITVX
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Notes to editors
1 Where to watch TLC in the UK: Freeview Channel 12; Sky Q and Sky Channel 133; Sky Glass and Sky Stream Channel 139; Virgin Media Channel 113; Virgin Media Scotland 128; Sky Scotland Channel 134
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