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ITV Studios’ award-winning and record-breaking format Love Island has been commissioned in Denmark, Finland and Norway, raising the number of countries the show is currently being produced in to seven.
TV3 has ordered the show in both Denmark and Norway, while MTV3 has commissioned it in Finland. ITV’s local production labels, United Productions, ITVS Norway and ITVS Finland, will all produce the show in their respective territories.
All three series will air in 2018, with Tone Damli as the host of the show in Norway and Shirly Karvinen as the host of the Finnish series.
The incredible launch of season four in the UK earlier in June delivered ITV2’s highest overnight rating since records go back with 2.9m viewers (peak of 3.4m) and a 16.4% share, making it the highest-rated show across all channels in the 9pm slot.
Love Island Australia, currently airing on The Nine Network, also successfully launched in May where within 24 hours of airing, the first episode’s digital video player measurement (VPM) ratings via the network’s catch-up service 9Now were the biggest for an Australian reality TV show ever.
The new commissions mean that Love Island will air across the Nordics this year with Love Island Sweden also launching on TV4. Meanwhile Love Island Germany returns later in the year for a second season, after season one was the most streamed RTL2 format ever on TV Now.
“From winning a BAFTA and breaking viewing records in the UK to a hugely successful launch in Australia and winning these three new commissions, it’s been a brilliant few weeks for the format,” said Mike Beale, Managing Director, Nordics and ITV Studios Global Creative Network.
“We have already seen that it works equally well across linear, digital and catch-up platforms and we are very excited to roll the show out across the Nordics as a result. With a version of Love Island on somewhere around the world every single day between now and Christmas, we’ll look to build on the incredible momentum we have right now by continuing to grow the show internationally.”
Full of flirting, jealousy, rejection and fun, Love Island sees its occupants live the celebrity lifestyle in a stunning villa in a beautiful location. They are on the lookout for romance but as the road to love never runs smoothly, they must not only choose their partner wisely but also win the hearts of the public. The viewers get to decide who they want to stay in the show as they watch the relationships develop and ultimately which pair they want to crown the hottest couple on the island.
Love Island is an original ITV Studios Entertainment format, co-produced with Motion Content Group, and is distributed internationally by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
