About the Role
The team is organised into genres - Entertainment, Factual Entertainment, Comedy and Drama, News, Current Affairs and Sport - and each genre team is led by a Head of Commissioning with Commissioning Editors, Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners and Coordinator/Assistants to keep things moving. Everything is driven by teamwork, from collaboration and discussing ideas, to creating run-throughs and pilots, to working with the Director of Television to progress those ideas further.
You don’t necessarily need academic qualifications to make an impact in Commissioning - people skills and a passion for what you do are what’s important. But what we also look for is an eye for detail, plenty of diligence, lots of creativity, the confidence to challenge the norm, and the flexibility to work long hours.
Everyone on the team is responsible for the development, creative management and commissioning of programmes across our family of channels. From developing existing well-known programme series to finding the hits of tomorrow, like BGT, The Voice, and Saturday Night Takeaway. Not to mention programmes with huge gaming, app, merch and sales angles, like Love Island.
Many of the programmes we commission are also designed to be emotive and take people on a journey, too. Some have raised money and even changed or saved lives, and our focus is often on influencing and helping people off screen as well as on.
But above all, it’s about discovering and developing the most successful entertainment brands in the world, and it’s about making those brands as famous and as loved as possible. Because here in Commissioning, we don’t just create TV, we create fans.
About the Company
ITV, as an integrated producer broadcaster (IPB), creates, owns and distributes high-quality content on multiple platforms globally. We also continue to diversify our business through the opportunities presented from consumers ’ willingness to pay for great content and to engage with ITV as a trusted brand.
The Broadcast division is home to the ITV family of channels – the largest family of free-to-air commercial channels in the UK, with programming delivered across multiple platforms, including linear television, on demand via the ITV Hub, ITV’s OTT service, and through pay providers such as Sky and Virgin.
ITV’s family of channels consists of ITV main channel, the largest commercial channel in the UK, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITVBe, and CITV.
ITV’s family of channels and ITV Hub are advertiser funded, the revenue from which enables investment in high-quality programming across a range of genres. ITV offers unique audience scale and simultaneous reach to television advertisers, as well as a more targeted advertising proposition on the ITV Hub.
ITV also generates revenue directly from consumers who are willing to pay to engage with ITV brands and content. This is through subscription video on demand (SVOD) services, in-programme competitions and voting.
ITV has several SVOD services, including BritBox UK, BritBox International which is available in the US, Canada and Australia, and ITV Hub+ (the ad-free version of the ITV Hub with download functionality).
BritBox UK has the largest collection of British box sets and is controlled and managed by ITV, with the BBC as a strategic and equity partner, Channel 4 and Channel 5 as content partners, and EE and BT as distribution partners.
The international BritBox SVOD service is a joint venture with the BBC and provides local audiences with an unrivalled collection of British box sets and original series all in one place.