ITV have quietly shelved a Loose Women spin off show amid the channel’s ongoing belt-tightening measures.
A day after , the Loose Women podcast has been shelved after going dark five months ago with no explanation.
The Loose Women podcast has been shelved Credit: Spotify
The hit show launched their podcast last year Credit: Shutterstock Editorial
Launched with great fanfare back in 2025, the show’s weekly podcast has now been pushed to one side as ITV continues to cut costs.
All of the show’s stars appeared on the podcast, but back in January quietly stopped releasing episodes.
The last episode to be released was on January 27, with episodes regularly uploaded each week until it went dark.
An insider has told The Sun: “The Loose Women podcast ran across two successful series but was never on all year round.
All of the panellists took turns in being on the show Credit: Loose Women/Facebook
The show went dark in January amid cost-cutting measures Credit: Loose Women/Instagram
“We are hopeful for another run at some stage but it wouldn’t play across a full calendar year.
“The scheduling of the show itself changed in January and the focus has been on content for that but but we are hopeful it will return at some point just no exact dates at the moment.”
This comes as ITV continues to implement its stringent cost-cutting measures.
more than a year ago, with the plans for the future of ITV Daytime unveiled in May 2025, and .
These plans included over 220 jobs being cut and reduced airtime for daytime shows like and Loose Women.
Both daytime shows now instead of of every weekday like they always did previously.
They now air on TV for just 30 weeks of the year, meaning they are losing more than 100 of their episodes.
Other changes include episodes having a run time of just 30 minutes and no live studio audience.
In May 2025, Kevin Lygo, managing director of ITV’s Media and Entertainment Division, said: “Daytime 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 as generating savings which will allow us to reinvest across the programme budget in other genres.”
He added: “Daytime has been a core element of ITV’s 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.”
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