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It's very rare that unscripted shows are outright "cancelled" these days. More often than not they're "rested", although 90% of shows that are "rested" never return.

They obviously want to keep their options open for 2024 and it doesn't hurt to keep things in the back pocket but my guess is neither will return.

As others have said they have the Rugby World Cup this Autumn which will cover Saturdays 9th September to 28th October, assuming they show all the Saturday evening matches on ITV1, which I'm guessing they will as they're all either home nation or knockout stages.

So they'll only really be looking to fill the Saturdays in November and December this year, and of course I'm a Celebrity will be on some of them. My guess is other than IAC they'll just have a mix of one offs like Queens For The Night (which has been reported as likely to return), movies and things like Catchphrase and Celeb Chase which can come and go. Maybe The 1% Club for post-8pm as they've filmed extra episodes of that this year so it'll need more slots than just the post-BGT slot in Spring.

The Voice is coming back but I'm not sure they'll be able to squeeze that into Nov/Dec around I'm a Celeb, so I guess that might air over the Summer this year (they filmed the auditions before Christmas so it'll easily be ready in time).

I can't see The Voice being in the summer - they've 6-7 weeks before Christmas so I suspect they'll just add one or two Sunday editions and air it in those latter weeks, and they'll always be a gameshow format they can air in the hours before.

They could easily have bought the Saturday editions of I'm a Celeb forward a bit on Saturday nights since The X Factor finished and aired 90 minute editions but the fact it's generally remained airing later than 9pm and generally been kept as an hour long editions, even once the rest of the week is 90 minutes, suggests that using it to plug a gap for 3-4 weeks in the Saturday schedules has never really been on ITV's agenda.


ITV is clearly missing that big autumn tentpole fixture though now The X Factor has gone - and though that has been offset in recent years by being far stronger than the BBC in Q1/Q2 in the last year or two there has clearly been a bit more investment in Saturday nights again from the BBC - although perhaps to ITV's relief much of that seems to end up scheduled as lead-in or lead-out programming from Strictly.