Talk TV's Troubles

Piers Morgan - from 'uncensored' to 'unwatched'

May 17, 2022

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This is the fourth week of Talk TV being on-air and so it feels like an appropriate juncture at which to assess how it's doing. The answer, based on most metrics, seems to be a resounding "not very well."

Slick Start

As I wrote at the time, launch night was a slick-looking success with Piers Morgan’s centrepiece show picking up decent numbers.

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