ITV Schedule Shake-Up: Loose Women and Lorraine to Take a Week Off Next Month!

ITV daytime will be subject to a huge shake-up next month with Loose Women and Lorraine scrapped entirely.

The telly shows will make way for the channel’s coverage of the annual racing event, the , with horse Inothewayurthinkin taking the prestigious last time around.

Lorraine Kelly’s show Lorraine will be scrapped from the ITV schedules next monthCredit: Shutterstock Editorial Loose Women will also be absent from screensCredit: Shutterstock Editorial It will make way in the schedule for ITV’s coverage of the Cheltenham FestivalCredit: PA

With Lorraine’s 30-minute show axed, Good Morning Britain, which starts at 6am, will be extended for seven days.

This means the news programme’s roster of presenters, which includes , Ed Balls, and , will be clocking up extra time and working until 10am.

After airs at its usual time, ‘s Racing coverage will start on the channel at 1230pm.

The changes start on Monday, May 9 – with the festival kicking off on March 10 – and run though the week.

Meanwhile, ITV’s wider daytime’s switch up

It came after .

It was announced last May that would be extended by half an hour, and it now ordinarily runs from 6am and ran until 9.30am.

However, this meant that ‘s self-titled show .

The show now ends when starts at 10am

This flagship ITV show is the only one that has NOT been affected by the shake up, and will conclude at it’s usual time of 12.30pm.

Although ‘s running time stays the same, the show will now only air for 30 weeks of the year.

The changes have come into force due to budget cuts made by ITV, and across the broadcaster’s daytime TV staff.

Good Morning Britain, as well as This Morning and Loose Women have been housed at the ‘s London Television Centre since 2018, after it’s South Bank home was demolished.

Since January, , while the other ITV daytime shows are filmed at The H Club in Covent Garden.

Previously, The Sun exclusively revealed how when they waved goodbye to their home at the Television Centre.

A source told us: “It’s terribly sad for the whole team. There are staff who have worked for ITV Daytime for years – from GMTV to Daybreak to GMB – also on Lorraine, Loose Women and This Morning.

“Now the teams have been split up and relocated and it’s the end of an era. Many people who weren’t ready to leave yet are saying goodbye forever.”

Boss Kevin Lygo explained the big move last year, and 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.

“These 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.”

GMB will run until 10am next monthCredit: Rex Earlier this year, presenters including Susanna Reid and Ed Balls re-located to a new studioCredit: Shutterstock Editorial