Lorraine Kelly said why is this morning pre-recorded today after a studio power outage forced ITV to pull Lorraine from its Wednesday 4 November slot. She posted early on Instagram as she headed to work, telling viewers her show would not be on and that the disruption had already spread beyond one programme.
Lorraine at 9.30
Lorraine normally airs at 9.30 on ITV and ITV X, so the outage hit a fixed part of the morning schedule rather than a flexible filler slot. Kelly said technicians were going to fix the issue by around 11am, which pointed to a short repair window even as the morning lineup was already being reshuffled.
“Hello there,” she said in the video, before adding, “I’m on my way to work, but there’s been a little bit of a hoo-ha. There’s a power outage at the studio so my show won’t be on today.” That was the clearest reason given for why viewers did not get the usual live run of Lorraine.
This Morning and Loose Women
This Morning was then cancelled and replaced by a clip show, while ITV also called off Loose Women for the day. Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals took Loose Women’s place at 12.30pm, turning the noon block into a temporary reshuffle rather than a simple one-show interruption.
Good Morning Britain still went out earlier in the morning, which showed the outage did not shut down the whole daytime operation at once. The schedule held together in pieces, but the network had to use pre-existing filler and an alternative game format to keep the line-up moving until the afternoon.
Sharleen Spiteri and 2pm
Kelly said she had been looking forward to talking to Sharleen Spiteri from Texas, but would reschedule. She later wrote, “These things happen. Can’t be helped. See you tomorrow,” a neat summary of the reality for daytime TV: live plans can vanish fast when a studio loses power.
Normal programming was expected to resume at 2pm following ITV Lunchtime News at 1pm, even though technicians were due to fix the problem by around 11am. That gap tells the story better than any spin: the repair target and the broadcast target were not the same, so ITV had to protect the schedule first and sort the cause later.
