This year’s Love Island to launch on 3rd June
Maya Jama returns with new Love Island on Monday 3rd June at 9pm
This year’s Love Island will launch on Monday 3rd June at 9pm as part of a multichannel takeover on ITV1, ITV2, ITVX, STV and STV Player. Love Island will continue on ITV2 and ITVX for the remainder of the series.
Love Island: Aftersun will also return to screens live from London every Sunday on ITV2 and ITVX hosted by Maya Jama alongside an all star array of regular panellists. Sam Thompson and Indiyah Polack will resume their roles joined by new pannelists Amy Hart, Chris Taylor and Jordan Stephens as they join celebrity guests to discuss all the goings on from the Villa this summer.
Indiyah Polack will continue to host Love Island: The Morning After podcast joined by Amy Hart and Chris Taylor every Tuesday to Saturday now available to watch visually for the first time ever. Together they will be joined by a rotation of celebrity Love Island fans as well as the dumped Islanders fresh from the Villa to catch up on all the latest action.
Love Island continues to capture the heart of the nation having recently amassed over three hundred million streams on ITVX. Love Island’s recent All Star series remains the biggest digital programme of the year to date as well as attracting the largest 16-34 commercial audience so far (1.4M), the show’s launch episode also attracted over 3.4 million viewers.
Produced by Lifted Entertainment, part of ITV Studios, and GroupM Motion Entertainment the launch episode of the last series attracted over 3 million viewers across all devices, last year’s Love Island final was also the most watched programme for 16-34s on any channel and the series garnered 1.4 billion video views across all platforms, 56+ million likes on official Love Island content and over 1 million comments generated on all official Love Island content.
Love Island is co-owned by ITV Studios and GroupM Motion Entertainment and is distributed internationally by ITV Studios. The hit show has been commissioned in 27 territories ranging from the UK to the USA, Greece to Germany and many more.
Mike Spencer, Creative Director, Lifted Entertainment said: “We are thrilled that Aftersun is back, as the home for all of the exclusive Love Island chat and gossip this summer. We are very excited to have an A-list line up of talent with the brilliant Indiyah and Sam returning alongside Amy, Jordan and Chris all ready to spill the tea alongside the incredible Maya Jama. This summer really will be one to remember!”
Amanda Stavri, Commissioning Editor, Reality, ITV said: “We’re thrilled to have Aftersun back this summer on ITV2 & ITVX, as our amazing host Maya Jama unpacks all the latest news & exclusives direct from the Love Island villa. We’re also excited to announce three brand new rotating panellists; Love Island alumni Amy Hart & Chris Taylor and superfan Jordan Stephens, who will join Sam & Indiyah for even more chat, more opinion and more revelation, as they dissect all the Love Island drama from across the week!”
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