The ITV studios at Television Centre have been evacuated due to a police incident at nearby tube stations in London.
Things were all going to plan for the channel on Thursday, with both Good Morning Britain and Lorraine going off without a hitch.
And This Morning was running as normal, until the final ad break. As they cut to the commercials, hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were teased a game of Guess the Gadget with Steve Wilson, but when the show returned, the opening titles rolled again, Phillip and Holly were wearing completely different outfits as a message reading: "THIS IS A PRE-RECORDED PROGRAMME" appeared on screen.
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This understandably sparked concern from viewers, with their worries then added to by the fact that when fellow ITV show Loose Women started, it was too a repeat.
Why did ITV go off-air?
Just as fans flocked to Twitter in search of answers, it was confirmed by Transport for London (TFL) on Twitter that White City and Wood Lane tube stations had closed while the police responded to a security alert outside the station.
MyLondon then reported that the Met Police were called to incident in Wood Green after reports a suspicious item had been discovered.
Police officers were called to the incident shortly before 11.15am on Thursday (March 10).
A statement from the police read: "At 11:14hrs on Thursday, 10 March, police were called to reports of a security alert at Wood Lane, White City.
"It was reported a suspicious item had been discovered.
"The area was evacuated as a precaution and White City and Wood Lane tube stations were temporarily closed.
"The incident was stood down shortly before 12:49hrs."
Taking to Twitter to speculate what would happen with other ITV afternoon programmes, one viewer wrote: "Be interesting to see what they do with the ITV Lunchtime News at 13:30 if they've been evacuated."
Another fan wrote: "Television Centre @ThisIsTVC evacuated due to security alert outside White City and Wood Lane, causing @ITV
@ThisMorning and @LooseWomen to go off-air and to emergency stand-by tapes. Hope everyone’s okay and safe."
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