Piers Morgan Tonight
| Piers Morgan Live | |
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| Also known as | Piers Morgan Tonight (2011–13) |
| Genre | Talk show |
| Created by | Piers Morgan |
| Presented by | Piers Morgan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | CNN |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | January 17, 2011 – March 28, 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Larry King Live |
| Followed by | Crossfire |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Piers Morgan Live (formerly known as Piers Morgan Tonight) is a talk show on CNN that was hosted by Piers Morgan. The show premiered on January 17, 2011, and filled the former Larry King Live timeslot. The theme music was written by Anthony James, composer and CEO of British company Music Candy, and his writing partner Yiorgos Bellapaisiotis, Music Candy's Director.Piers Morgan Live was recorded primarily in CNN's studios at the Time Warner Center in New York City.
It was announced on February 23, 2014, that Piers Morgan Live would be canceled; the date of the final show was March 28, 2014.
Throughout the show's run, Morgan interviewed many guests, including politicians, celebrities and members of the public. His first guest was Oprah Winfrey. Soon after the show's debut, when the Egyptian revolution began, the show changed from a Larry King Live-like interview format to a breaking news-format program. Morgan had never anchored a live news show, but did have experience with breaking news as a newspaper journalist. Because of major news events such as the Arab Spring and the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the ratio of taped to live interviews was the opposite of his expectations.
After a respectable start on the debut show, and tripling the viewing figures of King's program,Piers Morgan Tonight had suffered from falling ratings. On his first show 2.1 million U.S. viewers tuned in, but by the second show the ratings dropped to 1.3 million. The January 28, 2011, edition garnered just 498,000 viewers. The show received its second largest audience on February 28, 2011, as 1.346 million people tuned in to see Morgan interview actor Charlie Sheen, whose recent abnormal behavior made headlines. However, by the autumn of 2011, the program's ratings were trending downward. In October 2011, Piers Morgan Tonight had an average total audience of 589,000 each night, down from Larry King Live's average of 657,000 in the same month a year before. In November 2011, the program had an average of just 154,000 viewers ages 25 to 54. In contrast, Larry King Live had an average of 161,000 in November 2010. Piers Morgan Tonight also had fewer total viewers that month than Larry King Live did a year before, 620,000 versus 635,000.
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