After Piers Morgan’s 3 year run as t.v. host for CNN’s Piers Morgan Live, the show is inevitably coming to an end. The British tv host announced today, that because of incredibly low ratings, the show will be ending with it’s last episode airing as soon as next month!.
The show just wasn’t doing as well ever since Larry King left. Those are some shoes to fill, I’l tell you that much. Morgan has struggled to match the ratings regularly achieved by his predecessor and had recently started to suffer new lows in terms of audience figures. This month saw six of the show’s smallest 10 audiences since he took over in January 2011.
Check out what Morgan had to say about the closing of the show, and his future career plans!
“It’s been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings,” Morgan told David Carr, The New York Times media columnist, who reported that Piers Morgan Live will “probably” see its last episode air this March.
“Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it.”
“That’s run its course and Jeff and I have been talking for some time about different ways of using me.”
“I think I can credibly do news and the ratings reflect that, but it is not really the show that I set out to do,” Morgan told the Times, adding: “I’d like to do work — interviews with big celebrities and powerful people — that is better suited to what I do well and fit with what Jeff is trying to do with the network.”
Change is good, so embrace it. He’ll be fine.
