A number of reports claim CNN’s longtime host Larry King is about to be replaced by Piers Morgan, one of the judges on “Britain’s Got Talent” and its U.S. version “America’s Got Talent.” According to the British Telegraph, “The Britain’s Got Talent judge and former newspaper editor is on the verge of signing a four-year contract to take over King’s primetime show in the autumn.” “King, 76, has reigned over American television for decades, with the Larry King Show first airing in 1985. However, his ratings for the first three months of this year fell to an all-time low of just 771,000 viewers, down 43 per cent in the last year.” Yet other reports say Morgan could be replacing Campbell Brown. Here’s the New York Post’s take : The Time Warner-owned cable network has hemorrhaged viewers to Fox News Channel and even lost some to its own sibling service, HLN. There’s a talent drain as well: CNN recently lost Christiane Amanpour to ABC’s “This Week” and Gerri Willis to Fox Business Network. CNN currently has Campbell Brown’s 8 p.m. slot open — although a source said the network is also sounding out possible replacements for “Larry King Live.” Regardless of who Morgan might replace, wouldn’t this throw a wrinkle into CNN’s “ambition” to be the “straight news” option on cable? On the other hand, as King recently celebrated his 25th anniversary on CNN with half the audience he had when he began a quarter century ago, there is a delicious irony in Larry being replaced by someone from “Britain’s Got Talent.” Think about it.
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Larry King To Be Replaced By ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Judge?
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