Lorraine and Loose Women will be heading back to ITV in the coming weeks and it has been revealed which four lunchtime ladies will be making on the panel on the first day back
Lorraine and Loose Women will be heading back to ITV in the coming weeks. The broadcaster’s long-running daytime shows had their yearly output slashed to 30 weeks a year amid major cuts that were announced last year.
Each ITV Daytime show last aired in early March and since then, Good Morning Britain, which had already been extended by half an hour after Lorraine’s show was cut, and This Morning have aired as normal. At 12:30pm, ITV News is aired and then game show repeats occupy the rest of the slot usually held by Loose Women.
But it has now been confirmed that Loose Women will be the first to be brought back on screen, and will be broadcast once again from Monday, April 27th. Christine Lampard will be in her usual slot as anchor, whilst Coleen Nolan, former I’m A Celebrity… star Jane Moore and ex-EastEnders actress Nadia Sawalha will make up then panel.
As for Lorraine Kelly’s eponymous chat show, which has been halved to just half an hour’s running time, the daytime legend will be back a week later on May 4, according to The Sun.
Lorraine once shared hosting duties on her show with a host of others, including Loose Women star Christine, as well as Ranvir Singh, who used to take over on a regular basis. Other stars like BBC Breakfast’s Louise Minchin and X Factor star Rylan Clark have provided cover but, following the cuts, Lorraine now fronts all five shows.
Towards the end of last year, when asked if if the cuts came as a shock to her, Lorraine told The Mirror: “Not really. I mean, it’s kind of indicative of the whole industry, really. I’m just glad that we’re still there. We’ve still managed to save some jobs. A lot of my team are going to This Morning. And so yeah, it’s not my decision. It wasn’t a decision that I made.
“I just feel lucky to still be doing what I love to do. I mean, what’s not to love? There we are this morning. Brian Cox is a massive hero of me. Both Brian Coxes, the actor and the astrophysicist, both of the heroes of mine.
“You know, getting to talk to people like that is is is a privilege, really. You know, getting to watch Jamie Oliver cook something and then eat it is fantastic. And you know, and and you know, next year all my all our regulars will still be there, Dr. Hilary and Doctor Amir and Mark Hayes and Ross King, all the usual people that we we’ve known.
“So I’m just glad that we’re still going to be there. It’ll be different. But you know what? I’ve been through many a regime change. So it’s just another one. Just another one. It’s fine. We’ll still be there and it will still be really good fun and I still really, really, really enjoy it. So I feel very lucky.”
ITV Media and Entertainment Managing Director Kevin Lygo previously said that the aim of the scheduling changes, which were implemented in January, was to save cash amid huge hikes in costs without losing any of the on-air talent.
He 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 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.
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“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.”
