ITV places nine of its top shows on hold amid budget cuts as new episodes of The 1% Club, The Chase and Long Lost Family are replaced with repeats

ITV has been forced to put nine of its top shows on hold in a bid to save new episodes, as budget cuts continue to hit the channel.

Shows such as The 1% Club, The Chase and Long Lost Family have been barred from filming new episodes, with bosses swapping them out for repeats in the schedules.

Some shows are projected to return to screens later this year, but others aren't expected to be back until 2027.

ITV has already been hit by huge cuts which forced filming for daytime shows Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women to be relocated.

Good Morning Britain has also moved homes, and is now filmed in the same building as news arm ITN.

Nine shows that have seen new episodes put on ice are The 1% Club, The Chase, Beat The Chasers, Long Lost Family, Deal Or No Deal, Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening, Password, Bullseye and Josie Gibson's Big Country Build.

An ITV spokesperson told The Sun: 'ITV's schedules are confirmed and billed two weeks in advance of broadcast. Until this point all scheduling is subject to change.'

The 1% Club still has eight episodes that are yet to air, having previously been scheduled for broadcast last month.

Meanwhile The Chase has also seen repeats broadcast for the past two weeks, with new episodes reportedly set to resume in November.

Even the show's star Mark 'The Beast' Labbett has hit out at the change, writing on social media: 'Repeats are becoming the norm.

'If they weren't showing repeats of The Chase they would probably show repeats of something else, ITV are not making a lot of anything right now.'

Spin-off Beat The Chasers has been similarly frozen, with new episodes expected to return next year.

For Long Lost Family, repeats have replaced its 16th series, which began last month.

Contestants on Deal Or No Deal have also shared that episodes they appeared in have been 'postponed,' after originally being slated to air last month.

Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening will now not air new episodes until 2027, though a Christmas Special will be broadcast in December.

A second series of Stephen Mangan's Password had been due to air this year, but has since been pushed back until 2027.

Similarly a new series of the Bullseye revival, hosted by Freddie Flintoff, has been pushed back to the spring. 

Josie Gibson's Big Country Build is yet to air a single episode, as despite being slated to air this year, it has now been dropped from the schedules. 

Back in May 2025, it was revealed that Lorraine and Loose Women were set to be axed for half the year and Lorraine's runtime has been slashed by 30 minutes, as ITV Daytime bosses announced huge cuts, with job losses in excess of 220.

Host Lorraine Kelly has faced the brunt of the cuts with Good Morning Britain now taking her 9am to 10am slot for 22 weeks of the year.

For the remaining 30 weeks of the year, Lorraine will present five days a week, meaning her Friday stand-in presenters Ranvir Singh and Christine Lampard are no longer needed.

ITV sources told Daily Mail at the time that they have decided to cut resources on their daytime schedule so that the network can invest in more drama programmes.

It was also announced that ITV Studios will no longer make Good Morning Britain but instead it will be made by ITN - the organisation which makes ITV News.