Kevin Lygo is ITV’s Managing Director, Media and Entertainment, heading up all content commissioning across genres and ITV platforms. Kevin became ITV’s Director of Television in 2016.
Commissions during Kevin’s tenure include The Masked Singer, The Real Full Monty, Harry’s Heroes, Gino, Gordon and Fred, Liar, Des, Quiz, Manhunt and The Bay, Exposure films, Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag, and White Right: Meeting The Enemy.
Kevin joined ITV in August 2010 as Managing Director of ITV Studios. As well as the UK and the US, Kevin also led the rest of ITV’s international production business in Australia, Germany, France and the Nordics, as well as 40,000 hours of programming under the ITV Studios Global Entertainment arm.
Prior to joining ITV Studios, Kevin was Channel 4’s Director Television and Content. Kevin first joined Channel 4 as Head of Entertainment and Music in 1997. He also acted as Controller for the successful launch of Channel 4’s digital entertainment channel, E4. Kevin left Channel 4 in late 2001 to spend two years as Director of Programmes at Five, where was credited with broadening the channel’s programme offering from a reliance on films, sport and acquisitions to embrace original UK production.
He re-joined Channel 4 as Director of Television in November 2003 and in 2007 he was promoted to Director of Television and Content.
Kevin began his career in television in the early 1980s, as a BBC general trainee.
