Behind the scenes of ITV’s summer hit that has sold all over the world to countries including Germany, Australia and Finland.
The dramatic entanglements of Love Island’s contestants are nothing if not minutely documented. But less well known is how every kiss, mugging off and argument is captured, analysed, clipped and aired for almost instant public consumption.
The fourth season of the hit ITV2 show, produced by ITV Studios, regularly pulls in around three million viewers keen to follow every move of the islanders holidaying in a villa on the east coast of Mallorca.
The matchmaking show is stripped weekdays into hour-long episodes for eight weeks until the end of July and uses a total of 73 cameras, four more than the 2017 season.
The post production demands and fly-away kit has grown too, which - given the confines of the space in and around the villa - forced ITV to...
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