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Lorraine Kelly has shared that she'd love to do "more" travel shows amid ITV budget cuts that will affect her daytime show. After loving her time in Norway to film her upcoming three-part travel series for Channel 4, the 65-year-old TV presenter is keen to document other countries. Lorraine told the new issue of Woman magazine: "I've got my three-part travel series about Norway coming out on Channel 4 in the new year. I really loved making it. "I've wanted to do travel programmes for ages, and I'd like to do more, so it's come at the right time. Next year, I won't be working as much on the show, as it will be 30 weeks rather than 48." ITV have faced budget cuts that will see changes happening to some of its biggest shows, including schedule changes for Coronation Street and Emmerdale . Lorraine will continue to be broadcast, however, it will air for 30 minutes instead of a full hour. With previous speculation that Lorraine was to be cut completely from her ITV show, she previously told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I don't see me going anywhere until people get fed up, you know? Until people say, 'I've had enough of that one.' "It's really heartbreaking to split up the team. A lot of them have been with me for more than 20 years, and they're my friends. I've grown up with them. "They were babies when they started with me, and now they've got babies of their own." While admitting that it was initially a struggle for her to come to terms with the cuts, she shared that she feels the relief that many members of her team have secured jobs on different shows. She explained: "It's been difficult with the cuts, it's been hard. I'm a lot happier about it now, but it was honestly and genuinely all about the team. "I wasn't annoyed or angry about this for me. It was about the team." ITV's daytime shows, This Morning, Loose Women and Lorraine will be filmed from one studio, with no live audience in the Loose Women studio as of 2026. With worries that the Loose Women panel would be slashed, Coleen Nolan assured: "No, (the producers) have just got to work it out because we'll only be on air for 30 weeks. But there's no mention of anyone going. "We have to have a big pool of women because a lot of us are mothers and grandmothers and have other jobs outside of it. That's why it's great – then they've always got cover."
