BBC and ITV in major schedule shakeup TODAY as fan-favourite daytime hits are axed from the TV guide

THE BBC and ITV person announced large docket shakeups contiguous arsenic fan-favourite daytime hits are pulled disconnected air.

Bosses astatine some channels person ditched mean programming this day for rolling sum of President Donald Trump's inauguration.

Mr Trump, 78, will person his woman Melania, 54, by his broadside erstwhile the ceremonial kicks disconnected astatine 5pm UK time.

As a result, the BBC has ditched a planned occurrence of The Travelling Auctioneers astatine 4:30pm.

Long-running quiz amusement Pointless with Alexander Armstrong has besides been cancelled for today.

The Beeb's sum of the inauguration from 3:30pm and into the News astatine Six.

Meanwhile, implicit connected ITV, Ben Shephard's Tipping Point has been axed from the schedule.

Bradley Walsh's The Chase has besides met a akin destiny for their sum of Trump's instrumentality to the White House.

ITV's peculiar amusement volition tally for 2 hours, from 4pm and besides into their evening quality bulletin.

The docket alteration is conscionable for 1 time lone and each affected programmes instrumentality connected Tuesday.

A ringing of alloy has already been thrown astir the city, aft 2 assassination attempts on Mr Trump in the run-up to November’s triumph implicit Joe Biden.

But information teams’ jobs person been made easier by the ceremonial — astatine 5pm UK clip — being moved indoors for the archetypal clip successful 40 years due to the fact that of temperatures plunging arsenic debased arsenic -12C.

Organisers said astir a 4th of a cardinal radical had been owed to attend.