ITV Pulls Shows Including Dancing On Ice

ITV is to suspend all premium-rate phone-ins, interactive competitions and votes from Tuesday, reports ITV News.

Quiz channel ITV Play will come off air while independent auditors conduct a review of all ITV programmes.

ITV said its interactive services would return on a programme-by-programme basis, with each production facing scrutiny in the investigation.

Celeb skating show Dancing on Ice will only return at the weekend if phone-in procedures are believed to be working correctly, as they should.

The review follows a string of problems with TV phone-ins, including a mistake on ITV's X Factor, which led to viewers being overcharged a total of £200,000. Investigations are also being carried out into the BBC's Saturday Kitchen and Channel 4's Richard and Judy.