TalkTV have announced an emergency reshuffle of their morning line-up to try and revive the channel. As Guido first reported, Jeremy Kyle and Nicola Thorp are taking the morning slot from Julia Hartley-Brewer – who leaves big high heels to fill. The new show, Talk Today, will run from 6a.m. to 9.30a.m from Mondays to Thursdays. Hartley-Brewer is moving to an afternoon show between 1p.m. and 3p.m., while Rosanna Lockwood fills Jeremy Kyle’s old slot at 7pm. A great day for Nicola…

Scott Taunton, News UK’s President of Broadcasting, is insisting “TalkTV is delivering to growing audiences across the UK and beyond“, which will be news to everyone else. Last time Guido checked, the audience was shrinking, not growing…

Guido hears we will soon get the make-or-break revamped TalkTV line up for the autumn. The latest whisper is the all-important morning show will be fronted by Jeremy Kyle and Nicola Thorp. A more misanthropic morning couple would be hard to find. Jeremy despairs at all things woke and Nicola detests the monarchy, men, Tories, high heels and Laurence Fox. She unfortunately has had a setback in her defamation case against Lozza…
Laurence Fox tweeted yesterday that “Nicola Thorp’s defamation case against me dismissed by the Court of Appeal! The other claims now progress to trial in November, where I will vindicate my reputation.” Fox appears on rival channel GB News, so it will be added rivalry to have the presenters litigating against each other. Spicy!

They’ll be up against the interchangeable screen couples on the BBC as well as Susannah Reid and Ed Balls on Good Morning Britain; it is a formula morning television viewers are used to and GB News uses it too. Guido wonders if the TalkTV strategy here is to have two presenters with differing views so that the viewers get to see some sparky interplay and polarised takes. Might even please Ofcom to see a politically balanced presenter line-up…