ITV's popular daytime shows Lorraine and Loose Women will stop broadcasting from tomorrow due to the coronavirus outbreak.
To curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus ITV says it has decided to shelve the chat show Lorraine, presented by Lorraine Kelly, and its afternoon panel show Loose Women.
But Good Morning Britain and This Morning, hosted by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, will keep running as usual.
A spokesman for ITV Daytime said: "ITV Daytime has taken the decision to stop broadcasting Lorraine and Loose Women live from Monday 23rd March.
"This decision has been made to minimise the number of staff travelling in and out of our studios and working together on shift at any one time."
They added: "We're focusing our efforts on providing to viewers the latest news on the rapidly changing situation which aims to offer some stability and continuity in all our lives whilst so many of us are at home right now.
"That’s why we have taken this tough decision to protect our GMB News programme in the morning and keep This Morning on air for as long as possible."
From Monday ITV will be running an extended version of Good Morning Britain from 6am until 10am.
At 9am Lorraine will join Piers Morgan in the Good Morning Britain studio for the last hour and hand over to the This Morning studio with Phillip and Holly from 10am until 1230pm.
ITV will then run some its 'most favourite' repeat episodes of Loose Women from 12.30pm to 1.30pm 'to give viewers something to smile about each day at lunchtime.'
Explaining the move further ITV said: "We have been reducing our crew numbers over the last week and these changes will enable us to reduce them further and help us build further resilience with the aim of Daytime content continuing to air for as long as possible.
"Safeguarding the well-being of everyone involved with our programmes is our priority and in this dynamically developing situation we will obviously continue to review these new arrangements on a day by day basis and follow at all times the latest PHE and WHO guidelines."
ITV has also suspended filming on Coronation Street and Emmerdale due to the outbreak.
Production on the two flagship soaps has been stopped with immediate effect.
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