Audiences for Rupert Murdoch’s new Talk TV are plummeting according to reports, with less than 60,000 people watching much-trumpeted (not least by him) Piers Morgan’s flagship Uncensored show. This was less on one night than Nigel Farage managed on GB ...
Read More »Has Piers Morgan the staying power to make Talk TV a success?
It takes quite a lot to make us warm to Donald Trump (actually warm is a bit strong) but here he is on the first Piers Morgan Uncensored segment of Rupert Murdoch’s new Talk TV, trying to get a word ...
Read More »Isobel’s Jamie Williams: Morgan’s exit and Burger King show how provocation can become a banana skin
From Burger King to BrewDog, and Donald Trump to Piers Morgan, the desperate desire to be provocative and stay in the headlines, isn’t always the best idea. The desire to shock is a common one for many brands. And for ...
Read More »Morgan’s sudden GMB exit reveals a media world that could have been scripted by Netflix
Meghan Markle, aka the duchess of Sussex (for now anyway) is taking a few media scalps – the latest being Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan. Earlier this week it was announced that the Mail on Sunday newspaper would have ...
Read More »Piers Morgan attacks Robert De Niro for Warburtons ad
Was Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan right to take a pop at Robert De Niro for appearing in the new Warburtons bagel ad? According to Morgan, a former Daily Mirror editor whose veins run with tabloid ink, De Niro is ...
Read More »AMV’s new Lotto campaign unwraps the transparent enigma that’s Piers Morgan
Here’s AMV BBDO’s new campaign for the National Lottery’s Lotto game (these things seem to multiply like rabbits) featuring Piers Morgan. There’s another one featuring Katie Price (aka Jordan) which is downloading somewhere (been one of those days). Plus a ...
Read More »Grey New York takes gentle approach to gun dangers
To outsiders the incidence of gun crime in the US is both horrifying and mystifying – why on earth don’t they restrict the damn things? But guns are part of the culture for many people there, a rather double-edged birthright. ...
Read More »Now CNN drops under-fire chat show host Piers Morgan
2014 isn’t turning out very well for Piers Morgan (left) so far. The former Daily Mirror editor and would-be US TV superstar’s peak-time chat show Piers Morgan Live has just been dropped by US news channel CNN as it grapples ...
Read More »Piers Morgan in the headlines, Guinness record-breaking brands, Connect shows there’s ad life in Brum and the last knockings of Valentine’s Day
***It’s emerged that former Mirror editor (and now CNN prime-time chat host) Piers Morgan (left) was questioned under oath (which means you don’t say anything, if you’ve any sense) by Scotland Yard in December over the phone hacking farrago. This ...
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