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ITV2 RECOMMISSIONS STV PRODUCTIONS' AND GROUPM ENTERTAINMENT'S
SAFEWORD
12 February 2016
ITV has commissioned STV Productions, with co-production
partners GroupM Entertainment, to make a second series of popular
ITV2 comedy panel show, Safeword.
Rick Edwards (Free Speech, The Paralympic Games Breakfast Show,
Tool Academy) returns as host for the ITV2 series, joined by team
captains Katherine Ryan (Bring the Noise, Hair, Lip Sync Battle UK)
and David Morgan (I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! Now!, Xtra
Factor, Virtually Famous). The six 45 minute episodes will start
filming in March.
Outrageous and laugh-out-loud entertaining, Safeword sees two
teams, made up of a celebrity guest and two comedians, go head to
head in a competitive 'roast' format. The celebrities must endure
having their public profiles scrutinised and their social media
accounts hijacked in real time, as the rival panel pokes around
their personal and professional lives, posting shocking updates to
legions of fans on their behalf. The only thing that can help the
celebrities is using their chosen Safeword to make it all stop.
The show hit the headlines last summer after featuring
contestants including Katie Price, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of
Here winner Vicky Pattison and 80's pop sensation Sinitta.
Gary Chippington, Head of Entertainment at STV Productions,
said: "It's great to be working with ITV on another series of
Safeword and we look forward to bringing viewers more unsafe comedy
from Rick, Katherine and David as our teams are let loose on each
other again."
Tony Moulsdale, Director of Programming, GroupM Entertainment
said: "We are really pleased to see this ruthlessly funny and
unforgiving comedy panel show coming back to ITV2 for a second
series."
Claire Zolkwer, Commissioning Editor, Comedy and Entertainment
for ITV said: "The innate sense of mischief that Rick, Katherine
and David bring to the show makes Safeword a must see, jaw dropping
series that we so love on ITV2."
The ITV2 recommissioning of Safeword is just one outcome of the
strategic development partnership between STV Productions and
GroupM Entertainment announced in August, coupling the two
companies to co-invest, co-develop and co-produce ideas across a
broad range of genres.
The focus of the successful partnership has been to create new
entertainment, factual and drama projects targeted at major
broadcasters in the UK and internationally.
The partners recently extended their financial support following
the success of the partnership so far.
Red Arrow International distributes the Safeword format
worldwide (excluding UK and US).
Safeword was ordered by Angela Jain, ITV's Director of Digital
Platforms and commissioned by Claire Zolkwer, ITV Commissioning
Editor, Comedy Entertainment.
Executive Producer for STV Productions is Gary Chippington, Head
of Entertainment and for GroupM Entertainment is Abigail Adams.
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For further information, please contact:
STV Productions:
Richard Holligan
0141 300 3416
richard.holligan@stv.tv
Anna Hendry
0141 300 3830
anna.hendry@stv.tv
GroupM Entertainment:
David Grabert,
+1212 297 7125
david.grabert@groupm.com
NOTES TO EDITORS
STV Productions
STV Productions is one of the UK's leading content businesses
with ambitious plans for growth both domestically and
internationally.
The company has a record of success across a range of genres
including drama, entertainment and factual for a wide range of
broadcasters. Ratings winner Antiques Road Trip has run for twelve
series on the BBC, with a further five series of sister programme
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip also produced. In entertainment, the
company produces Catchphrase for ITV, Safeword for ITV2, The Link
for BBC Daytime and The Lie for STV, TV3 in Ireland and S4C in
Wales.
Specialist factual successes have included Tutankhamun: The
Truth Uncovered for BBC1 and Swallowed By The Sea - Ancient Egypt's
Greatest Lost City for BBC2. Documentaries have been another strong
growth area. Fire in the Night, a feature documentary to mark the
25(th) anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, won a BAFTA
Scotland Award for Best Single Documentary and the Audience Award
at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Since then we have
produced The Lockerbie Bombing for the Smithsonian Channel in the
US and ITV, The 7/7 Bombing: Survivors' Stories for ITV,
Rollermania for BBC Scotland and BBC4, and Prison: First and Last
24 hours, an 8 hour series for Sky1. Coming soon is Dunblane: Our
Story for BBC2.
STV Productions has a track record of producing quality
returnable drama series including Taggart and Rebus and intends to
build on this solid reputation. In the last five years it has
produced Fast Freddie and The Poison Tree, both for ITV. It
currently has script commissions from the BBC, ITV and Channel
4.
STV Productions has a partnership with Red Arrow International
which co-invests in and co-develops projects as well as distributes
STV Productions' completed programmes and formats, outside the
UK.
GroupM Entertainment
GroupM Entertainment is a global content investment and rights
management company, which creates, finances, produces, distributes
& commercializes content via innovative, strategic, commercial
models & partnerships. GME's global business interests extend
across all media platforms and a broad range of genres in
partnership with some of the world's leading production and
distribution talent. GME is part of GroupM, the world's leading
full-service media investment management operation, a WPP
company.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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