Loose Women's ITV replacement revealed and it's not what fans expect

Each week, ITV viewers are used to the Loose Women panel detailing the latest headlines of the day before speaking to a celebrity guest.

However, there's a change to the popular programme this week, which recently saw Denise Welch apologise on air, as it won't be airing on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

Instead, people will be tuning in at 12.30pm to watch a repeated episode of James Martin's Great British Adventure, which originally aired back in 2019.

During the programme, the celebrity chef crosses over the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland, where he is joined by famous local chef Paul Rankin.

From cooking fish stew, visiting a family farm, fishing for mackerel in the sea and even competing in a hovercraft race, ITV viewers will be entertained for half an hour before the news takes over.

Following this, ITV will be live from the races in York, which will air from 1.30pm until 4.30pm. This schedule seems to be the same for the next three days.

The changes were announced on Loose Women during Tuesday's (August 19) show by comedian Lee Peat, who isn't usually seen on-screen as he's the warm-up act for the live audience.

While detailing the latest competition details, Lee commented: "Lines close on Friday and I will saw, this is actually the last Loose Women of the week, so get your entry in if you want to do that!"

As the show drew to a close, host Christine Lampard detailed that the show will resume as normal on Bank Holiday Monday (August 25).

Loose Women often cuts its show early when the races are on, although it's not known why it won't air for the remainder of the week, when the races begin at the time that the programme ends.

However, starting in 2026, ITV viewers will see the long-running show less on air as it will only be broadcast for 30 weeks of the year as opposed to its usual 52.

This comes as it was announced that a number of shows are facing similar changes from next year, including Good Morning Britain and Lorraine.

From January, Good Morning Britain will be extended by 30 minutes to run from 6am to 9.30am, which results in Lorraine's show being cut to only half an hour.

Lorraine will also only air 30 weeks of the year, with Good Morning Britain running until 10am on the weeks her self-titled show isn't on.

Speaking about the changes, Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of ITV's Media and Entertainment Division, said: "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."

Loose Women is available to watch on ITVX