“MAYBE I’M JUST TOO OLD” – After decades of dedication, Lorraine Kelly in Tears at the twilight of her career as ITV Cuts back – Watching The Chase, Deal Or No Deal and Tipping Point get the Spotlight makes Everyone feel sorry for Lorraine!
Loose Women and Lorraine replacements revealed – and ITV fans will be thrilled
Lorraine and Loose Women were hit with major cuts from ITV bosses earlier this year, now it has been revealed which three shows will be picking up the slack.
Lorraine and Loose Women were hit with major cuts from ITV bosses (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Three ITV daytime shows will be picking up the pieces in the wake of axed Loose Women and Lorraine episodes. Back in May, viewers were left gobsmacked when TV bosses revealed that two popular daytime shows had been pulled off the airwaves for half the year. But fans will be relieved to know that there are three popular shows that have been confirmed to return to our screens in the meantime.
The Chase, Deal Or No Deal, and Tipping Point have even been given a “major boost” on the TV schedule according to The Sun, meaning new episodes will start filming later this year. Tipping Point – hosted by Ben Shephard, 50 – first launched onto our screens back in 2012 and has since aired 1,597 episodes across 14 series.
The Chase, Tipping Point and Deal Or No Deal have been recommissioned (Image: ITV)
But over the past year, no new instalments have been shot, leaving some fans worried that they were next to face the chop. However, it was confirmed that ITV had a number of unaired episodes which will hit the airwaves for the first time instead.
Deal Or No Deal has been on our screens since 2005, and the show aired on Channel 4 until 2016. When the show returned in 2023, it started airing on ITV instead and is now hosted by Stephen Mulhern after taking over from Noel Edmonds.
Fans will be happy to know that more episodes are set to be filmed later this year, btu another series will be released before that takes place. And The Chase, hosted by Bradley Walsh, 65, has had 18 successful regular series since it first hit the airwaves back in 2009.
Bradley, and Chasers Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha, Jenny Ryan, and Darragh Ennis are set to film new episodes of the show later this year.
Meanwhile, Lorraine and Loose Women have been axed for half of the year and Lorraine’s runtime has been cut by 30 minutes after ITV Daytime bosses announced huge cuts, resulting in job losses in excess of 220.
Host Lorraine Kelly faced the brunt of the cuts with Good Morning Britain now taking her hour-long slot for 22 weeks of the year. The remaining 30 weeks of the year, Lorraine will present five days a week, meaning her Friday stand-in hosts Ranvir Singh and Christine Lampard are now no longer needed.
Lorraine’s show has also been slashed in half, running for just 30 minutes from 9.30am to 10am. ITV sources previously told MailOnline that they have decided to cut resources on their daytime schedule so that the network can invest in more drama programmes.
One source told the outlet: “There is a need to cost save but also so that the right money can go to the right shows and with everything getting more expensive these things have to be looked at. Christine and Ranvir remain part of the ITV daytime family.”
