{"id":192815,"date":"2025-06-17T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192815\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:33:10","slug":"loose-women-to-ditch-studio-audience-from-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192815\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOSE WOMEN TO DITCH STUDIO AUDIENCE FROM NEXT YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-y1341495\">ITV earlier this year announced changes to the scheduling and production of its Daytime shows.\u00a0It has now been confirmed that Loose Women will not have a studio audience from January 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/d56877_cdfa6f8ab09c42bf946b7555276f7aa5~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvzoneuk.com\/post\/loosewomen-studioaudience-2026rep1\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/d56877_cdfa6f8ab09c42bf946b7555276f7aa5~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_3840,h_2160,al_c,q_90\/d56877_cdfa6f8ab09c42bf946b7555276f7aa5~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-gpreg497\">From January 2026, Good Morning Britain will be extended by 30 minutes to run from 6am to 9.30am daily, and will transfer to be produced by ITV News at ITN at their base at Gray\u2019s Inn Road in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-8z64f499\">GMB will be made by a dedicated team within ITV News at ITN. This change will see ITV bring all its national news gathering into one hub, with Good Morning Britain benefitting from the journalistic and production resources already in place for national news bulletins, for the website and for digital platforms including ITVX.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-yhj1n501\">Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women will continue to be produced by ITV Studios and will be broadcast from a new location in central London.\u00a0 ITV Studios is consulting with its Daytime teams about a proposal that from 2026 would see the three editorially distinct shows produced by one team sharing resources and operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-g91yc513\">In ITV\u2019s 2026 Daytime schedule, Lorraine will run from 9.30am-10am, on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year which aligns with the lead Daytime presenters who host their shows around a seasonal pattern rather than throughout the year.\u00a0During the weeks Lorraine is not on air, Good Morning Britain will run from 6am to 10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-xiaso515\">This Morning will remain in its 10am-12.30pm slot on weekdays throughout the year, while Loose Women will be in the 12.30-1.30pm slot, again on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year &#8211; the schedule it occupied for over a decade until 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-sagv2507\">Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of ITV\u2019s Media and Entertainment Division, explained the changes: \u201cDaytime is a really important part of what we do, and these scheduling and production changes will enable us to continue to deliver a schedule providing viewers with the news, debate and discussion they love from the presenters they know and trust as well generating savings which will allow us to reinvest across the programme budget in other genres&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-lu3qz511\">\u201cThese changes also allow us to consolidate our news operations and expand our national, international and regional news output and to build upon our proud history of trusted journalism at a time when our viewers need accurate, unbiased news coverage more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-tpxz1517\">Kevin Lygo added:\u00a0 \u201cI recognise that our plans will have an impact on staff off screen in our Daytime production teams, and we will work with ITV Studios and ITN as they manage these changes to produce the shows differently from next year, and support them through this transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-99ivg521\">\u201cDaytime has been a core element of ITV\u2019s schedule for over 40 years and these changes will set ITV up to continue to bring viewers award winning news, views and discussion as we enter our eighth decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-ih1zj527\">The change will form part of a renewed agreement between ITV and ITN, for ITN to produce national, international, London and digital news for ITV for the next five years, with options to extend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV earlier this year announced changes to the scheduling and production of its Daytime shows.\u00a0It has now been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114701088146397038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}