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■ THE winter version of Love Island might not have been a huge hit but it has still been a decent first six weeks of 2020 for ITV.

That’s the view of analysts at UBS ahead of the broadcaster’s annual results due out in a few weeks.

They reckon total ad revenues will be up in the first quarter, having fallen in the same period of 2019 – with a similar story in the second quarter, helped by the Euro 2020 football in the summer.

The first six weeks of the year have been helped by The Masked Singer, the return of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and Love Island.