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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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Loose Women cuts live studio audience amid ITV budget cuts

Show has been a mainstay of daytime television since 1999

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The Sun broke the news in United Kingdom on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
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