ITV sets out Spring schedule to inform and entertain viewers
Over the weeks ahead across its family of channels ITV will offer the latest insight and guidance as we move through this unprecedented crisis, reflect the ways we are rapidly adapting our lifestyles and bring bags of drama and entertainment to lift viewers' spirits.
ITV's Spring schedule is bursting with new programming and returning favourites that will bring together audiences, keep people informed and engaged with developments and offer them some escape from the impacts of the crisis. ITV's schedule is built around several strong pillars:
Daytime Live - offering six and a half hours of live news and discussion programmes from GMB through to This Morning. All shows have seen an increase in viewing volumes and share of viewing as they report on the crisis and help people manage through it. Both Dr Hilary and Martin Lewis have established themselves as the leading TV experts providing advice and guidance during these uncertain times.
Afternoon - ITV's popular quiz and game shows entertaining millions every day and culminating in the ever popular Chase.
National and regional news - our trusted news teams are showing great innovation and professionalism to bring viewers the latest and best reporting with newly commissioned current affairs programmes on life during the crisis.
Saturday night entertainment - ITV's trademark uplifting shiny floor shows with brand new episodes each week throughout the Spring from the record breaking Saturday Night Takeaway [ITV Studios and Mitre Television production] to the returning Britain's Got Talent [Fremantle].
Drama - an impressive slate from Julian Fellowes' Belgravia [Carnival Films] to the eagerly anticipated Quiz [Left Bank Pictures] starring Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant with Matthew Macfadyen as the so-called coughing Major' and Sian Clifford as his wife Diana in the scandal which rocked Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Soaps - the two biggest Soaps on TV, Coronation Street and Emmerdale [ITV Studios], will continue to run through the Spring and into the early Summer.
Factual Entertainment - offering adventure, humour and emotion with new Harry's Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh [Talkback] and Gordon Gino & Fred: Road Trip [Studio Ramsay].
CITV - with brand new shows for children including Lego Hiddenside and Mighty Mike during the week and Scrambled! on weekend mornings.
Sport - we've even found a way to bring you some live sport with the Virtual Grand National [Carm Productions] using CGI and sophisticated algorithms to stage the race.
Britain Get Talking - ITV's landmark mental wellness campaign, Britain Get Talking, returned last Saturday and continues to be supported on air with messages of support and love from viewers and famous faces including Ant and Dec, Davina McCall, Susanna Reid, Lorraine Kelly and Gordon Ramsay.
Kevin Lygo, ITV Director of Television, said:
ITV's aims are to serve up as much information, guidance and entertainment as possible to help people to get through this extraordinary time.
That's why we've put exciting new shows into the schedule while doing everything possible to keep our live daytime programmes on air to speak directly to you each day, along with our rock solid news bulletins.
We hope Saturday night entertainment like Saturday Night Takeaway, Britain's Got Talent and In For a Penny continue to entertain millions of people on a Saturday night, and factual offerings from Harry's Heroes to Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip will offer some comfort and escapism in the weeks ahead. New dramas such as Julian Fellows' Belgravia, The Good Karma Hospital and the upcoming Quiz all aim to enthrall viewers through the coming weeks. We've even staged our own Virtual Grand National to help you ride this out. We hope you tune in and enjoy what we have to offer.
***
SATURDAY NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT:
Weekends will be brightened with much-needed glamour and excitement from new Saturday evening shows each week. Demonstrated by last week's Saturday Night Takeaway, [ITV Studios Entertainment/Mitre Productions], big, event shows can create unifying national moments, providing a welcome focal point for collective experience at this time. Highlights coming soon include the return of Britain's Got Talent [Thames TV/Syco Entertainment], a brand new primetime take on daytime hit The Chase Beat The Chasers [produced by ITV Studios label Potato], and later in the spring, riotous new offering, Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow [Talkback, part of Fremantle].
DRAMA:
Alongside new hits Kate & Koji [Hat Trick Productions] and Belgravia, in Drama we have Michael Sheen playing Chris Tarrant alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford as Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana in Quiz, which tells the extraordinary and sensational true story of how the couple attempted an audacious heist' on the ITV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? New series Van der Valk (Company Pictures) stars Marc Warren as streetwise Dutch detective Van der Valk in a new detective drama filmed entirely on location in Amsterdam. And throughout Spring the two biggest Soaps on TV, Coronation Street and Emmerdale [ITV Studios] continue to run.
DAYTIME:
Days indoors will be enlivened by our uniquely vibrant live morning menu, which has drawn record audiences in recent days as viewers engage with Good Morning Britain and This Morning during the crisis. Already these shows have been adapting to the unprecedented changes happening around us to bring viewers new features with the most relevant guidance as well as its unrivalled brand of debate on the issues that matter most to people at home. Across the extended Good Morning Britain [ITV Studios] with Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid [even in isola
Most recent headlines
11/12/2025
Dalet, a leading provider of cloud-native, end-to-end media workflow solutions, ...
06/12/2025
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A new survey from Pixitmedia by Datacore revealed a major shift in the Media & Entertainment industry in media archiving, with 85% of resp...
06/12/2025
HACKENSACK, N.J. LiveU has announced that the national public broadcaster Czech Television has completed one of the largest LiveU live production deployments fo...
06/12/2025
NEW YORK The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) presented the Excellence in Production Technology Emmy Award to NASA+ and Dr. Tom Leight...
05/12/2025
2025 Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Curt Gowdy Jr. - Master Storyteller, Nati...
05/12/2025
SVG Sit-Down: Veritone's Sean King on the Power of Mining Video, Audio DataThe company's Data Refinery offers users total control and governance over da...
05/12/2025
Platinum White Paper: Inside the Nashville Predators' Unified, Flexible, Sca...
05/12/2025
Netflix Reaches Agreement To Acquire Warner Bros. Following Planned WBD SplitThe deal does not include WBDs sports assets like TNT Sports (US, UK, LatAm), Euros...
05/12/2025
FOX Sports Returns to Indianapolis for Primetime Broadcast of Big Ten Championsh...
05/12/2025
SVG Summit 2025 Preview: Digital Engagement & Monetization Workshop Tackles the ...
05/12/2025
Atlanta United Lights Up New Emory Healthcare Studio With First Live Broadcast f...
05/12/2025
As Messi Takes the Pitch, MLS, Apple, NEP Roll Out Largest MLS Cup Production Ev...
05/12/2025
ESPN Enters College Football's Most Intense Month With Elevated Workflows fo...
05/12/2025
It's about that time! Awards season is in full swing, and the Film Independe...
05/12/2025
Every year, Spotify Wrapped offers a personalized look back at the audio that defined your year. It's a snapshot of your listening habits, designed to tell ...
05/12/2025
In 2025, Spotify's EQUAL, GLOW, and RADAR programs celebrated women, LGBTQIA , and emerging artists who turned moments into milestones. From breaking record...
05/12/2025
In our latest blog, we explain how Wi-Fi 7 rollouts can drive consumer loyalty with value-add services such as consumer cybersecurity. We also explore how this ...
05/12/2025
LOS ANGELES Netflix announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion....
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Nielsens Gracenote has launched Gracenote Content Connect, a new ad platform that provides agencies, brands, supply-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-si...
05/12/2025
NEW YORK In an most important update to the workings of deal-based programmatic advertising, IAB Tech Lab has released version 1.0 of its Deals API for public c...
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Pass the turkey. Pass the stuffing. Pass the cranberry sauce. All are common requests of Americans celebrating Thanksgiving Day with family and f...
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Iris, the new cloud-connected camera control platform, has officially launched with features that turn virtually any PTZ camera into a software-connect...
05/12/2025
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Netflix announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion....
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Iris, the new cloud-connected camera control platform, has officially launched with features that turn virtually any PTZ camera into a software-connect...
05/12/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T's $1.02 billion acquisition of spectrum from UScellular in a decision that was issued sho...
05/12/2025
The Best Coldplay Songs: 21 Tracks That Shoot for the Stars From Yellow to Viva La Vida, Fix You to Paradise, this playlist goes back to the start.
December ...
05/12/2025
Zafris Lecture Series Brings Nabil Ayers to Berklee The 32nd annual James G. Zafris Distinguished Lecture series was held on Thursday, November 13, with guest...
05/12/2025
Friday 5 December 2025
A new Game of Thrones Tale: Official trailer for Sky Exc...
05/12/2025
Back to All News
Don Lee, Lee Jin-uk, and Lalisa Manobal to Star in Netflix Act...
05/12/2025
Tis the season of giving once again and this year we've taken our Give Back Fridays' concept and turned it on its head.
In the autumn we were approach...
05/12/2025
Brayden Gogis doesn't remember a time when he wasn't completely fixated on games in all forms. In preschool, when they asked us to dress up as what we ...
05/12/2025
The Grinch steals the spotlight as the theme for The Late Late Toy Show 2025
Tune in tonight at 9:35pm on RT One and worldwide on RT Player
#LateLateToyShow...
05/12/2025
RT Announces New Presenters of Flagship News Programmes
New RT Six One News co-presenter Tommy Meskill
Sarah McInerney & Justin McCarthy join Morning Ir...
04/12/2025
ToolsOnAir Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Event Presets for just:in mac pro 2025 & ...
04/12/2025
ToolsOnAir AJA Ki Pro Event Presets for just:in mac pro 2025 & just:in linux
More Details:Starting with version 5.5, both just:in mac pro and just:in linux sol...
04/12/2025
Wangu Kanuri from Kenya and Godwin Asediba from Ghana are two of this years finalists for Thomsons Young Journalist of the Year Award. The pair are runners-up i...
04/12/2025
SVG Sit-Down: ProximaVision's Claudio Lisman on Why Tethered Drones Could Be...
04/12/2025
SVG Campus Shot Callers: Imry Halevi, Senior Associate Director of Athletics, Co...
04/12/2025
Platinum White Paper: LiveU Lightweight Sports Production: A Step Change in Spor...
04/12/2025
London to Riyadh: DAZN brings the boxing glamour to new production levels for Be...
04/12/2025
Analysis: Paramount bets on the battering ram' with Champions League play By Callum McCarthy, Editor-at-Large
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 10:12
Print ...
04/12/2025
Space City Home Network Launches SCHN DTC App for Astros and RocketsThe Rockets and Astros were previously the lone NBA and MLB teams without a DTC appBy Jason...
04/12/2025
SVG Summit 2025 Preview: Content Workflows Workshop Spotlights Evolution of Spor...
04/12/2025
New Sponsor Spotlight: Geotech's Patrick Wambold On the Unreal Engine Revolu...
04/12/2025
Curt Gowdy Jr. - Master Storyteller, Nationally and RegionallyBy Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S.
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:52 pm
Print This Sto...
04/12/2025
(L-R) Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki, and Judith Helfand att...
04/12/2025
SBS launches Future Frames initiative to support emerging First Nations video ed...
04/12/2025
Coronal mass ejections caused by eruptions on the surface of the sun can have fa...
04/12/2025
Gracenote Content Connect enables media ecosystem to precisely align ad campaigns and programming based on rich content signals
NEW YORK - December 4, 2025 - N...
ITV sets out Spring schedule to inform and entertain viewers
