ITV Daytime faces a serious schedule shake-up subsequent month with each Lorraine and Unfastened Ladies cancelled for a complete week for Cheltenham Competition racing protection
Unfastened Ladies might be taken off air for a complete week subsequent month (Picture: ITV screengrab)
ITV Daytime is about for a big schedule reshuffle subsequent month, with each Lorraine and Unfastened Ladies being taken off air for a complete week.
The reveals might be briefly eliminated to accommodate the community’s protection of the Cheltenham Competition racing occasion.
The adjustments will begin on Monday, 9 March and proceed all through the week till Friday, 13 March.
In consequence, Lorraine Kelly’s half-hour programme might be changed by an prolonged version of Good Morning Britain, which is able to broadcast from 6am till 10am.
This Morning, offered by Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley, will retain its standard slot from 10am till 12.30pm, at which level ITV’s Racing protection will start.
Lorraine has additionally been cancelled from March 9 till March 13 (Picture: ITV)
ITV’s revamped Daytime schedule formally launched final month following funds cuts that resulted within the lack of over 200 behind-the-scenes jobs.
It was revealed in Could of final yr that Good Morning Britain can be lengthened by half an hour, which means the present now airs weekdays from 6am till 9.30am.
Nonetheless, this adjustment has led to Lorraine Kelly’s eponymous present being minimize by half-hour, now beginning at 9.30am and ending at 10am.
Good Morning Britain will air from 6am till 10am for the week (Picture: ITV)
While This Morning will stay in its common slot, Unfastened Ladies’s working time will keep the identical however the panel present will now solely air for 30 weeks of the yr.
Discussing the alterations, chief Kevin Lygo acknowledged: “Daytime is a extremely essential a part of what we do, and these scheduling and manufacturing adjustments will allow us to proceed to ship a schedule offering viewers with the information, debate and dialogue they love from the presenters they know and belief in addition to producing financial savings which is able to permit us to reinvest throughout the programme funds in different genres.
This Morning will air in its standard timeslot (Picture: ITV)
“These adjustments additionally permit us to consolidate our information operations and increase our nationwide, worldwide and regional information output and to construct upon our proud historical past of trusted journalism at a time when our viewers want correct, unbiased information protection greater than ever.”
Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Unfastened Ladies have been based mostly on the London Tv Centre since 2018, following the demolition of their South Financial institution premises.
Nonetheless, since January, GMB has been airing from the ITN Studios in Central London, while the opposite ITV daytime programmes are filmed at The H Membership in Covent Backyard.
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