ITV announces three major shows set to return after daytime TV shake-up

Daily Mirror

20 hours ago

After the broadcaster's announcement that they are slashing Lorraine and Loose Women, ITV bosses have revealed three shows that will not suffer from upcoming budget cuts
ITV has announced the return of three of its flagship game shows, which is welcome news for viewers who are set to be impacted by upcoming changes to the channel's daytime schedule.
It has been confirmed that new episodes of The Chase, Tipping Point and Deal or No Deal will be filmed later this year, which means the shows have secured a broadcasting slot in 2026. The announcement comes as ITV has been going through a major overhaul of their daytime line-up.
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Both Loose Women and Lorraine are going to face cuts as part of new cost-saving measures. From 2026, Lorraine Kelly's morning programme will be shortened to a 30-minute slot, airing from 9.30am to 10am instead of its current hour-long format.
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It will also only be broadcast for 30 weeks out of the year, meaning the stand-in hosts who currently replace Lorraine when she is on holiday will be out of a job.
Loose Women is also facing significant changes, and will soon only be airing "on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year" according to ITV bosses.
The programme will scrap its live studio audience and is expected to reduce its line-up of panellists as part of the shake-up. While those cuts have sparked concern among viewers, ITV's quiz and gameshow output has been handed a significant boost.
New episodes of The Chase, the channel's top-rated quiz show, will be filmed over four months later this year. Production company Potato are currently recruiting crew to work on the show between September and December.
Meanwhile, Tipping Point fans can breathe a sigh of relief after speculation that the show might be axed. No new episodes were recorded last year, which left fans concerned about the future of the series.
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However, ITV bosses have clarified that filming was only paused because there was a backlog of unaired episodes that needed to be broadcast. New episodes are set to be filmed this year, with Ben Shephard returning to the studio for the first time in almost two years.
Stephen Mulhern is also preparing to step back into the studio for Deal or No Deal. A new full-length series is due to be filmed this autumn for broadcast in 2026.
However, viewers won't have to wait until that comes out to watch a new instalment of the game show, as there is an already completed series ready to air later this year.
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Lorraine Kelly recently professed her love for working in telly, telling fans in the wake of cuts being made to her talk show that she is "not done yet".
On Tom Kerridge's Proper Tasty podcast, she shared: "I've been around for so long. I've been doing telly for over 40 years. It's mad isn't it? It's absolutely crazy. I started in breakfast telly in 1984, and I'm still getting away with it. Extraordinarily.
"40 years in TV last year was incredible. I got a BAFTA. 'Here's a BAFTA for being alive.' I thought, 'Hang on a minute, I'm not done yet.'
"I think now I can be a lot cheekier. Because I've always been a bit naughty. Not so much in the morning, but if I do a wee show on Channel 4, or The Last Leg, or something like that. You can be unleashed. And I quite like that. You do have to have a self-edit button, and I'm finding mine is not operating as much as it should."
ITV has been contacted for comment.