CNN to end Piers Morgan's show
Source: Politico
CNN President Jeff Zucker has decided to bring an end to Piers Morgan's low-rated primetime show, network sources told POLITICO on Sunday. "Piers Morgan Live" could end as early as next month, though Morgan may stay with the network in another role.
Morgan, a former British tabloid editor, replaced Larry King in the 9 p.m. hour three years ago, prior to Zucker's tenure as president. His show earned consistently low ratings, registering as few as 50,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 year-old demographic earlier this week.
Morgan told The New York Times on Sunday that the show had "run its course" and that he and Zucker "have been talking for some time about different ways of using me. Sources who spoke to POLITICO said the decision to end the show was Zucker's.
Zucker took the helm at CNN at the beginning of 2013 and has brought incremental change to the network, including revitalized news programs and a new emphasis on films and documentary shows. Primetime remains the one area where Zucker has yet to impliment substantive change.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/02/cnn-to-end-piers-morgans-show-183830.html
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)N/T
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)wyldwolf
(43,870 posts)patricia92243
(12,601 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)He maybe better off staying at ESPN.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)bridges were burned, and he held the lighter.
Beacool
(30,251 posts)He's his own worst enemy.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)another show that I've managed to never see!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)BTW- I covet your greens......
840high
(17,196 posts)enough.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)never watch the show.
Leith
(7,813 posts)He was in the center of the News of the World phone hacking scandal with Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks. He is a joke in the UK and he should be am object of ridicule in the US, too. Morgan is a sleaze.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Loaded Liberal Dem
(230 posts)I wouldn't trust ANY decision he makes.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)He's an asswipe.
doc03
(35,364 posts)bigworld
(1,807 posts)Might just be crazy enough to work?
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)The snooze media suffers from the same malady just about everything in our society suffers from. It's that
crappification business.
Long ago I usually had headline news on in the background. I haven't watched it in over 10 years. None of it. When I look at the guide I see Robin Meade. Never watched more than 10 seconds at a time.
The rest of CNN went not long after.
Morning shows on MSNBC are pretty much the same. Chuck Todd? Jansing? Waste of bandwidth.
Then there's the PBS/NPR situation. I've given up on that also.
And don't get me started on the national snooze. 3 or 4 snippets of shallow events, then interview of some people who happened to be walking by to give how they are affected by the event ("just what will you do when your farm goes under?" , then into the entertainment tonight mode for the last 15 minutes.
And all of that sandwiched between viagra commercials. Oh, and sports is not news...unless a car flew into the stands.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
We desperately need a good forum to exchange ideas, differing ideas. And that's after we get a decent analysis of those ideas. And how those ideas/concepts are affected or affect events.
Do the Bieber (whoever the f' he is) on the entertainment show.
DU is excellent but it's discussing ideas/events with the choir.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Pompous fuckwad ...
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Clarkson is still an annoying, arrogant, insulting Brit, but at least he is funny.
bossy22
(3,547 posts)in that time slot..
I'm pretty sure it would get better ratings than anything else they are considering
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)Isn't it in syndication? I love Top Gear!
T_i_B
(14,747 posts)...maybe we could just stick the pair of them in a boxing ring to sort it out?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)trublu992
(489 posts)They're delusional if they think keeping him on makes any kind of sense.
alp227
(32,052 posts)appacom
(296 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)... he bragged about hacking Paul McCartney's cell phone during
the last year or so of Linda's life. The man is scum.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)I don't think his part in this scandal has been quite legally settled yet, either.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)There were some decent interviews during the run. He also has (and still does) speak out loudly for gun control.
I think they needed to go with someone much younger and fresher after King.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)Can I have a job at CNN ...
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)She's smart and interesting and has a media background (she's a magazine editor) and she'd be awesome. And cable news needs more women of color, desperately.
But even if she were terrible, the look on Piers Morgan's smug face would be worth her contract.
Seriously though, I'd watch the shit out of her show. Appointment TV. Some smart person make that happen.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Bashir's program
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)maybe Piers can get his old job back.
jsr
(7,712 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Wasn't there also a gun thing? Yes Morgan's outspoken campaigning in favour of gun control riled much of heartland America.
How could they manage to hate him for all the wrong reasons, when there are so many good ones to choose from? The real problem was ratings. Morgan rarely matched King's viewing figures, and his most recent shows have had some of the smallest audiences in his three years at the helm.
What sort of preposterous bluster did Morgan put forward to explain away this failure? Actually, he was remarkably upfront. "It's been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings," he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2014/feb/24/piers-morgan-america-talkshow-host-cnn
T_i_B
(14,747 posts)....if he stopped tweeting about Arsenal or the fortunes of the England cricket team and started tweeting about Baseball or American Football instead? His sport related tweets can make him look like a right plank as it is.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...he was recently re-interviewed, under caution, (i.e. on the record after having been read his rights) for his part in/knowledge of the phone hacking scandal in the UK. A paper that he was editor of (Daily Mirror) was part of the phone-hacking and yet he has so far claimed no knowledge of what his journalists were doing...http://www.cbsnews.com/news/piers-morgan-interviewed-by-uk-police-over-tabloid-phone-hacking-scandal/
The dreadful ratings provide splendid cover though...