Loose Women to 'Drop' Major Part of Show Amid ITV Daytime Cuts
- ITV announced major cuts to its daytime schedule including reducing Loose Women to 30 weeks yearly and removing its live studio audience from 2026.
- These changes aim to save costs because the live studio audience, managed externally with security and warmup staff, is expensive to maintain.
- Loose Women, airing weekdays at 12:30pm and hosted by panellists including Ruth Langsford and Nadia Sawalha, will move to a new studio and shorter schedule next year.
- The cuts will lead to about 220 job losses, with panellist Nadia Sawalha calling the changes 'absolutely brutal' for production crews and expressing fear for her job.
- Removal of the live audience risks lower show atmosphere and viewer disengagement, prompting fears among staff and fans that the daytime strategy may suffer.
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