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Loose Women

British television daytime talk show (since 1999)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Loose Women, often abbreviated to LW, is a British talk show that broadcasts on ITV weekdays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. The show focuses on a panel of four female presenters who talk about aspects of their lives, and discuss topical issues ranging from politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip and entertainment news. The 3,000th episode of Loose Women was broadcast on 15 May 2018. The show celebrated its 25th anniversary on 6 September 2024.

Editorial summary

“Loose Women” enters the record as british television daytime talk show (since 1999). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Loose, Women and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Loose, Women and British.
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Why this record matters

“Loose Women” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Loose, Women and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Loose Women” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.