Cool News
It Is Official: After 25 Years, Larry King’s CNN Timeslot Goes To Piers Morgan In January!!
I am – Hercules!!
Piers will also continue to spend his summers judging “America’s Got Talent.”
His statement as regards taking over the slot King has held on CNN for a quarter century:
“I am thrilled to be joining CNN, and very much looking forward to bringing my own style of interviewing to the world’s biggest, and best, TV news organization,” Morgan said. “As a young journalist in Britain, I watched CNN’s astonishing live coverage of the 1991 Gulf War, and felt enthralled by the courage and brilliance of the journalists involved in that coverage. Years later, I watched Anderson Cooper’s visceral reports from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and felt equally enthralled by his passionate and relentless search for the truth. Perhaps most pertinently, I have watched Larry King Live for much of the last 25 years, and dreamed of one day filling the legendary suspenders of the man I consider to be the greatest TV interviewer of them all.”
Morgan has a background as newspaper editor and TV interview in the United Kingdom. (I think he’s also somehow Donald Trump’s apprentice?)
King, who announced his abdication in June, will oversee the final cablecast of “Larry King Live” on Dec. 16.
Find all of the Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
Follow Herc on Twitter!!
Follow Evil Herc on Twitter!!
Blu Rotwang!!
Dark Knight In Blu: $8.99!!
Follow Evil Herc on Twitter!!
-
+ Expand All
-
You yanks are welcome to him. He is detested in the UK. Oh yeah, first!
-
The fact that he didn't get that slot, is just a pure example of CNN favoring tabloid news.
-
"What's this new thing with the N-word? Everyone's now against the N-word" - the great Larry King
-
But I think he's successfully reinvented himself as an affable toff.
-
Sep 08, 2010 11:46:54 AM CDT
Re: Roman Polanski..."How can you have a civil conversation..."
by jedirob
...with someone who so brutally murdered your sister?"
"...Um, Roman didn't murder my sister."
Classic Larry. -
I thought that he was just another reality show slut.
-
Do they match his braces?
-
...of a tabloid newspaper in 90s England. Everything's relative.
Frankly it's embarrassing, but not untypical, that this is self-appointed ambassador of my country that becomes super successful abroad. Much like Simon Cowell, he's emblematic of some kind of romanticized aristocrat caricature. A mixture of imperial frankness, soft-skill schmooze, plummy accent and pantomime privilege.
I hope he chokes on his faux monocle one night, while quaffing on a liquid-money milkshake, in his champagne hot tub. -
he'll stumble through two years, bleeding viewers every week after a few initial months of artificial curiosity ratings.
-
He is a genuinely evil smarmy liar of a 'man'.
-
who thinks everything and everyone else that isn't upper class privileged English (see: the inheritors of sick evil imperialist families) are laughably unworthy of their time and effort. Forget the American right this guy is the real deal.
-
...by a muppet several years ago now? He certainly moves like one. Or maybe a Skeksis from THE DARK CRYSTAL?
-
This guy is a repulsive obnoxious scum bag of the highest order.
I'd say America's welcome to him but, as I like Americans all I can do is feel sorry for you. -
Hopefully he won't last long
-
Here's some better brits discussing Piers---- look out for the Stephen Fry joke.
http://tiny.cc/5uu9k -
He's at least funny. Or if you want a right winger get P,J, O'Rourke. He's funny, too.
-
They try so hard to be the middle of the road between Fox and MSNBC. Unfortunately, their concept of moderate is that you invite one raving loon from each of the far wings and let them scream at each other.
-
As for Larry, I respect my elders, but the guy was the worst interviewer.
-
How can anyone watch CNN? -
Holy cow! They are about to fall behind ultra-liberal propaganda infested MSNBC!
-
They need to send a burst of loud noise occasionally through King's earpiece to rouse him from his coma.
-
Holy cow! They're even behind ultra-conservative propaganda infested Fox News!
-
That's the plan, right? Like a great naval vessel that's been roaming the seas for 30 years and gets a new, relatively incompetent captain to take her into port to be mothballed. Piers Morgan will last approximately 5 months at this. He is too abrasive and not as interested in the "why" of stuff to fill these shoes.
-
– I hate Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan .
He is an odious reprehensible monster of a human being. He is the man who is so behind our troops that he published faked photos of British troops abusing an Iraqi prisoner – he got sacked for that and never apologised once for not checking the sources. This was what prompted the odious shit stain to move into television.He was famous for dragging out stories of national or personal tragedy for so long that it stopped being news and became ghoulishly obscene. He is a crass, insensitive, manipulative individual that deserves to slip quickly into the deepest of oblivions.Whatever his television appearences are like, I never watch anything he's on – in fact apart from news reports about him, including the joyful one that reported he was punched by Jeremy Clarkson – punched three times. The only thing I have seen him on was Have I Got News For You where he reacted to being slagged off by Iain Hislop that he threatened him with his army of reporters and photographers.
I hate this man and feel sorry for America. -
Eloquently put mate. At least we won't be seeing him on British telly anymore. Not that I watch much of it nowadays due to twats like him ironically.
-
He actually carried it out and had Daily Mirror photographers following him and camping outside his house.
The man is a cunt and is hated in Britain.
If someone beat him up in the middle of the Wembley football pitch at half time in the FA Cup Final in front of a capacity crowd I can guarantee there wouldn't be a single eyewitness to the assault. -
Mr Poon - thanks, I tend only to watch dramas on UK television now precisely because it's full of human detritus like Morgan, Cowell and Amanda Sodding Holden. The only thing that I feel any pride in is that Channel 4 has called a day on Big Brother.Snappy, unfortunately he is hated in Britian but he is one of these aberrations that remains popular with a significant amount of people - mostly mouth breathing simpletons but not always.
-
knows it.
-
The Hislop tale of one of Morgans reporters ringing Ian's vicar to ask him whether Hislop had said anything interesting in confession says it all.
Also, for those that couldn't be bothered with the link, somebody once asked Stephen Fry what he thought of the countryside. The response was something like "Countryside ? Is that the technical term for murdering Piers Morgan?" -
Does this mean that Morgan will be leaving the UK...for good? We don't have to that smug, smarmy twat every again? Yes...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
-
Look up "Have I Got News For You Piers Morgan" on Youtube and watch the fight! The BEST line was Piers trying yo jab Clive Anderson by asking "What do you know about the newspaper business Clive?" where Clive shot back to Piers "About as much as you!" CLASSIC! Can't wait to see Piers' ass canceled in a week!
-
..over a mini series and three movies!!! I guess that news isn't cool. And Piers on CNN??? Really??
-
he is a great foil for simon to play off of
-
Good riddance to the smarmy fucker
-
"I'd never hit anybody before in my life but I thought, if I'm going to start somewhere it might as well be Piers Morgan"
-
first epi aired sept 8, 1966frack...i am old
-
Sep 08, 2010 6:30:09 PM CDT
Wow, really? Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow are shaking
by coughlins laws
in their boots...
-
Asking Jerry Seinfeld why "Seinfeld" was canceled was proof positive the senility had set in.
-
Amorosa (sp?) picked a fight with him, and he humbled and humiliated her... it was the best moment in that show's history.
-
AICN is covering Larry King? Really? What's next, golf?
Get yer geekiness back or get the fuck out. -
Americans, I pity you. King might have gone downhill somewhat over the years but jeez, Morgan can be outclassed and outwitted by a sandwich. And not even a special sandwich. The kind of sandwich you make when you've got two slices of the ends of the loaf left and you've run out of anything to put between them. The guy is an utter moron who unfortunately is under the delusion that he's quite smart and everyone else is stupid. The Hislop + Anderson confrontation is the perfect example of how he regularly has his ass handed to him by anyone remotely intelligent. He won't last, luckily for you, but you can't give him back. We don't want him.
-
Can you imagine him interviewing the President? There's a reason Dick Clark wasn't a news anchor.......
-
...stop screeching about items not being "cool"??? Are you fucking twelve? Yes, jackass, somebody replacing Larry King IS worth discussing.
-
Being British I hardly watch the American news channels but always considered CNN the most reputable. Piers Morgan is a slimy insufferable wanker. Are they hoping his ratings will ignore his complete lack of journalistic integrity and be offset by the America's Got Talent viewers??
-
the UK's version of James Lipton. It's funny how Piers is not hated as much here in the states. I guess we Americans hear that British accent and assume he must be intelligent.
-
At least from anybody I know. Seems like a typical elitist prick.
-
Sep 09, 2010 7:34:21 AM CDT
A complete and utter insufferable wanker of the highest order
by bongo123
how in the fuck that talentless twat got to where he is today is beyond my comprehension...
-
'Jam'.
-
A far better and more engaging interviewer than King or this guy Morgan.
-
on another site.
The more stories like this run here, the less often I visit, which means less ad revenue. Or if you'd like to view it as an opportunity cost, I'm not reading about something cool, spending more time with that article and seeing what else the site has.
The coverage mix matters, and Larry King is patently not cool. I know, I know, I shouldn't read it if I'm not interested, but that's my point exactly--I'm less likely to visit if I think this type of crap is occupying AICN writers' time when they could be covering something else. Something cool. -
and Zombie Larry has been doing the show ever since. It's the only way to explain the worst interviewer of all time.
-
on reality shows. He's always a completely self absorbed twat. I just don't understand this decision.
-
I may not be Jeremy Clarkson's biggest fan, but any man who punches Piers Morgan in the face three times is one of England's Greatest Heroes.
-
this column is about tvevery entertainment site has been talking about the moveif you dont think this site is good anymore, go start your own blog and write about the things you think are cool....like how you manage to crawl out of bed every morning to face your pathetic life, and that the only thing that keeps you going is your insatiable need to be a fucking troll
-
The guy is a smary,self-obsessed,arrogant twat who also benefited from buying shares in a company his business column then tipped as a 'good buy' making him a fortune.You're welcome to him as long as you promise not to send him back
-
I can't believe the Americans are taking him off our hands, probably the best thing you've ever done for us, apart from finally joining WWII.
-
Here in the USA, Larry King is in 3rd place to Murdoch's Sean Hannity and MSNBC's Rachal Maddow, buy a wide margin. Sean gets 3mil viewers a night, Rachal 1.5 mil, Larry was 600,000.The CNN bosses are star-struck. They see someone famous and think "Let's give that person a show." There was a mass exodus from the channel back in Dec. as many saw CNN's continued decent into failer not ending anytime soon.Morgan will last no more than 1 year. There are not enough people watching "America's Got Talent" interested in what he has to say 5 nights a week on a cable channel.-----later-----m
-
Sorry
-
Sep 09, 2010 8:50:39 PM CDT
Seems all the Brit posters here hate the guy...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...If I've learned one thing, it's to always trust the Brits when it comes to despising someone. Hitler, Princess Margaret, Thatcher, Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch... they're invariably right when they can't stand someone. Except for the Irish, they're wrong about that one. But maybe I just think that because I'm half-Irish.
-
Reading comprehension's a bitch. I'm sorry you're you. The point is for Herc.
-
While I have to agree with the consensus here that Piers Morgan is not a pleasant character, he is an excellent interviewer. Piers Morgan’ Life Stories on ITV http://tiny.cc/52pit showed him consistently drawing frank and interesting interviews from his subjects. Crucially for an interviewer he is very straight with the subject (neither dismissive nor starstruck) and he stays out of the way of the answers, not constantly butting in like so many do.
Whether he can sustain that over five nights a week with subjects that may not always be of particular interest to him is another issue, but let’s be fair to him: he’s a knob, but good at this sort of thing.
-
...why Piers Morgan? Can someone justify this? W... T... F.
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- Kurtzman And Boborci Producing An Adaptation Of Anne Rice's Lestat Novel TALE OF THE BODY THIEF?? -- 233 total posts 233 posts
- Happy Birthday John Williams! -- 229 total posts 166 posts
- Are These Space Nazis Fighting Sarah Palin?? Behold The Unbridaled Dementia Of This New IRON SKY Trailer!! -- 103 total posts 103 posts
- THE BOURNE LEGACY trailer is a bit Saul Bassy -- 102 total posts 102 posts
- The JETSONS Movie Gets New Writers!! -- 96 total posts 96 posts
- HOUSE 2004-2012 -- 94 total posts 91 posts
- Significantly different 1 minute JOHN CARTER spot! -- 138 total posts 86 posts
- Mike Fleming confirms AICN scoop on Sly & Arnold teaming up in THE TOMB!!! -- 75 total posts 75 posts
- Jason Statham's In HEAT!! Brian De Palma And William Goldman Helped Put Him There... -- 59 total posts 59 posts
- DOUGLAS TRUMBULL is going to destroy our minds and reveal awesome beyond our mortal imaginations! -- 59 total posts 59 posts