Love Island USA’s primetime spot on ITV2 marks a significant step up for the series, with the first season having occupied a late night spot on ITVBe when it aired in the UK last year.
Love Island USA is coming to ITV2 this September with contestants living together in a “bubble” to allow them to film during the pandemic.
Love Island will also not return in January 2021, having aired its first winter series set in South Africa earlier in 2020.
This suggests that ITV bosses hope Love Island USA will fill the spot left by its UK counterpart, which was cancelled this summer after the coronavirus pandemic made shooting “logistically impossible”.