Is the shiny happy world of ITV's morning television coming to an end?
For Lorraine Kelly, it was a funny return to the land of the living — or at least the land of the recently woken up. Celebrated only last autumn in a documentary subtitled 40 Unforgettable Years, on Monday the 65-year-old 'queen of daytime' returned to her 9am ITV show after having undergone surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.
A slightly muted ITV press release noted that she 'continued to remain a mainstay in British television'. But on Tuesday afternoon came a further announcement. From next January her programme Lorraine would have its running time halved to 30 minutes and air 'on a seasonal basis' just 30 weeks a year.
But that was not the end of the bad news for those labouring
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