A bit late in the day picking up this, but reports suggest that Princess Productions will replace Endemol as the production company behind the National Lottery draws.
It will take over production of the 10-minute draws from Pinewood Studios on 1 July and Camelot said it is working with both companies to ensure a “seamless transition”.
That to me suggests the look of the show will remain the same. So the rights to the music etc must be with Camelot.
When is it up for renewal? Would ITV actually want it?
EDIT:
I assume you meant contract to show the draw. If we are talking contract to produce the draw then I expect they probably would want that. I expect every production company in the country wants that. It is money for nothing.
The days of ITV wanting to show it are long gone - indeed it probably won't be long until the Saturday draw is reduced to an update after the news like the rest of the week, although the quizzes still hold up quite well for the BBC.
Going off topic Camelot seriously misjudged the doubling of the price of tickets too - not sure if any sales figures have been released but their plan of the change enabling them to add a million or so to the jackpot clearly hasn't worked and I'd have thought more people opt for the chance to win up to £100m on the Euromillions than the slightly less slim chance of winning £2-£4m on the Lotto.
Buoyed by a very strong second six months as a result of the changes to reinvigorate Lotto which have succeeded in turning around the flagship game’s long-term sales decline, total National Lottery sales in 2013/14 were the second-highest ever. They came very close to matching the exceptional figure of £6,977.9 million set in Olympics year and almost certainly would have done so had there been a repeat of the phenomenal, one-off sales boosts that the EuroMillions game enjoyed in 2012/13.
Last time the contract to televise the Lottery draws came up, IIRC the BBC were the only team that turned up to the game.
It has to be the rather 'complex' structure of the lottery shows.
The BBC commission and pay for the quiz show element, but pay Camelot to be the broadcast rights holder of the Lottery draws. But, the actual draws are not a BBC production, but an independent production (won on a competitive tender process) for Camelot/National Lottery Commission, who specify the content and how the draws are actually broadcast.
Where there is not BBC commissioned quizshow to wraparound the draws with, then the Camelot contracted production company Endemol/Initial for the last few years, Princess Productions from next Saturday) are responsible for the non-draw content of the show - how much input the BBC has into this, I would guess is rather minimal, other than specifying the running time of the slot in the schedule.