ITV DAYTIME TO AIR ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SPECIALS AHEAD OF RELOCATION AND SCHEDULE CHANGES

ITV Daytime staples Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women will air their annual Christmas special this December for the sixth year.

Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and This Morning are expected to air on Christmas Day itself as usual, with each pre-recording these special episodes earlier in December. Loose Women have confirmed multiple specials to air over the Festive season.

Susanna Reid, Richard Madeley, Kate Garraway and Ed Balls are expected to front the GMB special, with Ben Shepherd and Cat Deeley joined by Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary for This Morning's bumper two-hour show on Christmas Day.

From January 2026, Good Morning Britain will be extended by 30 minutes to run from 6am to 9.30am daily, and will transfer to be produced by ITV News at ITN at their base at Gray’s Inn Road in London. 

GMB will be made by a dedicated team within ITV News at ITN. This change will see ITV bring all its national news gathering into one hub, with Good Morning Britain benefitting from the journalistic and production resources already in place for national news bulletins, for the website and for digital platforms including ITVX.  

Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women will continue to be produced by ITV Studios and will be broadcast from The H Club Studio in London’s Covent Garden. Formerly The Hospital Club, the renovated studio will be "equipped with state of the art tech" and will have a 360-degree set with LED walls which will "ensure a quick turn around between shows and maximise use of the studio space."

In ITV’s 2026 Daytime schedule, Lorraine will run from 9.30am-10am, on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year which aligns with the lead Daytime presenters who host their shows around a seasonal pattern rather than throughout the year. During the weeks Lorraine is not on air, Good Morning Britain will run from 6am to 10am.

This Morning will remain in its 10am-12.30pm slot on weekdays throughout the year, while Loose Women will be in the 12.30-1.30pm slot, again on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year - the schedule it occupied for over a decade until 2016. Loose Women will also lose its studio audience as part of the cost-cutting measures.

Emma Gormley, Managing Director ITV Studios Daytime said: "As we work towards more cutting edge and efficient ways to produce Daytime shows in 2026, this move to The H Club studio offers state of the art technology that we can use across our programmes to create shows that are distinctive – with a look and feel that are familiar to and loved by our viewers...

"In a time of transformation for the entire industry, I want to thank all our Daytime teams for their dedication and skill in producing high-quality, compelling live shows every day throughout this period."

Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of ITV’s Media and Entertainment Division, explained the changes: “Daytime is a really important part of what we do, and these scheduling and production changes will enable us 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...

“These changes also allow us 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.”

Kevin Lygo added:  “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.

“Daytime has been a core element of ITV’s schedule for over 40 years and these changes will set ITV up to continue to bring viewers award winning news, views and discussion as we enter our eighth decade.”

More details will be announced in due course.