20-10-2023, 03:42 PM
(20-10-2023, 03:09 PM)Brekkie Wrote: You'd think they'd be starting to think a bit about succession planning for the Lorraine slot. I did think ultimately Holly might move over to front it, and she could still return to take the slot a few years down the line - but there would still be potential to do what happened with Jeremy Kyle and basically readjust the schedule to remove the slot - extend GMB, move This Morning and Loose Women half an hour earlier then extend the Lunchtime News.ITV Daytime don’t seem that great at succession planning, hence the hotch-potch situation we now have with both GMB and This Morning since the departures of Piers Morgan and Phil & Holly respectively.
I don’t see why they’d want to ditch the slot and that format though. It’s been around in one form or another since the days of After 9 with Jayne Irving on TV-am, and it’s not damaged like the Kyle show was.
From what I gather it performs better than GMB, so I’d have thought they’d look to bring in a new host rather than scrapping it. It must perform better during the summer with a stand-in than the time they tried GMB Today, so I don’t think another extension of GMB is the answer.