CNN to drop Piers Morgan's show

By Joe Flint  
February 23, 2014, 8:08 p.m.



CNN is pulling the plug on Piers Morgan.


The cable news channel has confirmed that Morgan's hour-long 9 p.m. show will be removed from the schedule. No replacement for Morgan has been named, and a CNN spokeswoman declined to say when his last show would be telecast.

Morgan took over for Larry King just over three years ago. CNN hoped that Morgan would bring in a bigger audience than King had delivered in his last few years on the network.


That didn't happen though, and Morgan's ratings are now below what King was averaging in his last year. Last week, one episode of "Piers Morgan Live" attracted fewer than 300,000 viewers, according to Nielsen.

Fixing the 9 p.m. hour has been on CNN Chief Executive Jeff Zucker's to-do list for some time, but he has instead focused on making over CNN's morning show and adding more documentaries and unscripted fare.

But with Morgan's numbers continuing to sink, CNN can no longer put 9 p.m. on the back burner. Zucker has already dismissed the idea of trying to woo Jay Leno to his network. When Zucker first came aboard just over a year ago there was speculation that he would try to lure Katie Couric to replace Morgan. However, Couric just signed a deal with Yahoo.

Morgan took over for King after a stint as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent." Before that, he was a prominent tabloid editor in Britain.

News of Morgan's show being canceled was first reported by the New York Times.


http://www.latimes.com/enterta......story#ixzz2uLkG9ODL

Arrogant
Pompous
Irrelevant
Wonder why it took so long!

I think they had a temporary rise in the ratings from people tuning in to be 'outraged' or something. Not real journalism. I didn't care for the fact that here was this shady character, brought over here to salvage his reputation on an innocuous talent show. We don't need England's recycled castoffs.

Piers Morgan was a good interviewer but the show would have been better if you could
know in advance who the guests were.  If someone I was interested in was on, I would watch
but most times I only found out who was on by surfing the station when there was nothing else
I wanted to watch.

Quoted from Madam X

. Not real journalism.

Agree.....but he is in the majority on that one!

We overthrew the British once .. we've done it again.  I hope they've learned their lesson.

I think they should just chuck him into a wood chipper as part of his last show, and while they're at it they might as well chuck Ted Nugent in there with him. I'd actually go somewhere to watch that.

It's nothing more than Hollywood entertainment at it's best.....ALL OF THEM!!!

Quoted from bumblethru

It's nothing more than Hollywood entertainment at it's best.....ALL OF THEM!!!

It's a shame really. But it does point out the uselessness of 24 hour "news" channels. And although a little off topic, local stations with their never ending newscasts which in reality have very little actual news are also a waste of time. Anyone who spends more than a minute a day watching local "news" is either bored or a mindless idiot, or too stoned to care. IMHO

Quoted from imsipps

It's a shame really. But it does point out the uselessness of 24 hour "news" channels. And although a little off topic, local stations with their never ending newscasts which in reality have very little actual news are also a waste of time. Anyone who spends more than a minute a day watching local "news" is either bored or a mindless idiot, or too stoned to care. IMHO

I TOTALLY agree with you!

USELESS!!!!