ITVX is set to launch two exclusive podcasts for three of its most iconic cultural institutions – Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Loose Women.
Launching across ITVX and YouTube, Loose Women: The Podcast (produced by ITV Studios Daytime) and Off Script…Coronation Street & Emmerdale (produced by Lifted Entertainment, part of ITV Studios) are visualised podcasts and also available as audio on Global Player.
Available from Tuesday 4 March in celebration of International Women’s Day, Loose Women: The Podcast will see a different duo from the TV show drawing on their own experiences to tackle big issues that matter to us all.
Viewers and listeners will also be able to directly ask the questions they’d like to know about the show and the women themselves.
The podcast comes off the back of a celebratory year for Loose Women which saw the BAFTA nominated show reach 25 years in broadcasting and stage its first ever, totally live 25-hour Talkathon.
Loose Women: The Podcast will be available every Tuesday and Friday.
Off Script meanwhile celebrates Britain’s longest running soap operas, Coronation Street and Emmerdale, offering a take on life behind the scenes on the cobbles and in the dales, from those who have played some of the characters.
Each episode will see interviews with the soap stars and give exclusive access to both soaps by previewing upcoming scenes from the week ahead.
Available weekly every Friday from 14 March on ITVX and YouTube, the show will welcome a different soap guest to the sofa each episode to have an in depth discussion about their characters’ key storylines and more broadly and about their life in soap.
Additionally to this, Love Island: The Morning After will return later in the year to coincide with the Summer series of Love Island.
Katie Rawcliffe, Director of Entertainment and Daytime at ITV, said: “As ITVX enters its third year we are broadening the horizons of three of our cultural treasures, Loose Women and our beloved soap operas, to launch these exciting visualised podcast series, building on the great success already achieved in this area by Love Island’s Morning After.”
