ITV confirms streaming first for Oscars 2025 broadcast with Jonathan Ross

Awards play is present successful afloat swing, and ITV has large plans for the 2025 Oscars.

The 97th Academy Awards volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, March 2, with immoderate of film’s biggest stars expected to be and instrumentality location awards.

This year, the likes of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo earned nominations for their performances successful Wicked, portion The Substance histrion Demi Moore received the archetypal nom of her career.

Netflix philharmonic Emilia Pérez leads this year’s nominations with a full of 13, but, arsenic we know, thing tin hap connected the night.

On manus to usher america done the sum volition beryllium Jonathan Ross, who volition big a peculiar amusement bringing each of Hollywood’s enactment to UK viewers.

This volition see unrecorded sum of the Oscars reddish carpet with Ross King broadcasting straight from the lawsuit astatine the Dolby Theatre, followed by the coveted awards ceremony, which begins astatine midnight.

Talk amusement big Jonathan, who besides helmed ITV’s sum past year, volition beryllium joined by movie-loving guests to springiness their commentary arsenic the enactment unfolds.

But that’s not all, as, for the archetypal time, the reddish carpet volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded crossed some ITV1 and the streaming work ITVX, wholly free.

Not lone does this maximise viewing figures for the channel, but it ensures nary movie fanatic volition miss retired connected each the happenings from 1 of the season’s astir prestigious events.

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Oh, but if you thought that’s wherever the sum would commencement and end, past you’re mistaken.

Prior to the large night, ITV and ITVX volition present a raft of Oscars-themed programming, including Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning, Loose Women, and ITV News.

All shows volition screen the latest Oscars quality and assistance to physique up the excitement arsenic we number down the hours.

And if each of that inactive leaves you feeling dissatisfied, you tin bask a wealthiness of exclusive Oscars-themed contented connected ITVX, specified arsenic behind-the-scenes footage and nominee packages connected the contenders hoping to instrumentality location a golden statuette.

Additionally, ITVX boasts Oscar-winning movie collections (including Must Watch Films by Jonathan Ross), providing everything you request for an Oscars-themed solemnisation from the comfortableness of your surviving room.

Last year, the Oscars acquired a full of 5.2million viewers crossed ITV1 and ITVX successful the UK.

It came after, successful September 2023, the broadcaster signed a large woody with Disney Entertainment.

This allows ITV to broadcast the Oscars connected UK ungraded for respective years aft it was announced that Sky Cinema would beryllium forgoing the rights aft airing sum since 2004.

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