ITV's Grade to stay until end 2010

LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - ITV (ITV.L) Executive Chairman Michael Grade has agreed to stay in his post until the end of 2010, one year longer than his original three-year term, the group said on Thursday.

Britain's biggest commercial broadcaster also said that Peter Fincham, the BBC One channel controller who stepped down last year over a row about a documentary on the Queen, would become the ITV Director of Television.

He succeeds Simon Shaps who had headed the ITV channels division since 2005, and will start in the spring.

(Reporting by Kate Holton)