Around half of the 450 production jobs on ITV’s daytime slate are to be made redundant as the broadcaster scales back hours and transfers production of Good Morning to Britain from ITV Studios to ITN.
ITV has briefed staff today that it will make more 220 redundancies in daytime production and will reroute funding into priority genres that have a higher impact on streaming, including drama and sport.
ITVS is consolidating the three teams making weekday shows Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women into one, with each shows sharing resources and operations but retaining their distinct editorial branding.
Production of these shows will shift from Television Centre in London’s White City to a new central location in the capital.
From January 2026, both Lorraine and Loose Women will be reduced by at least 42%, taking them down from 52 weeks a year to 30.
The former’s run time will be halved to 30 minutes.
A dedicated ITN team will produce Good Morning Britain out of the news division’s Gray’s Inn Road studios.
The show will be extended by 30 minutes for the 22 weeks of the year in which Lorraine is not on air.
ITV media and entertainment manging director Kevin Lygo said the daytime changes will enable ITV “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”.
He said the move was also designed “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”.
Regarding the redundancies, Lygo said: “I recognise that our plans will have an impact on staff off screen in our daytime production teams, and we will work with ITV Studios and ITN as they manage these changes to produce the shows differently from next year, and support them through this transition.”
The changes will kick in at the same time as ITV’s new soap schedules, with ITVS productions Coronation Street and Emmerdale both reduced to 5 x 30 minutes per week, down from a combined six hours that included hour-long specials.