No Ricky Gervais Viewership Bump For Piers Morgan But He Bounces Back In Demo

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• Sorry he doesn’t understand American or American Humor. His show will fail. Look for him to be out on his butt by the end of the year

  Comment by stan — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 2:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• Piers’ simpering please-oh-please-like-me-like-me-like-me-I’m-nicer-than-my-guest approach was increasing hard to stomach as the interview progressed. Gervais was delightful despite Piers. Not a hopeful sign for the show’s future.

  Comment by CMR — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 2:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• I like Piers. he needs time to “hone” his skills. But get a new set – the set is distracting and horrible!

  Comment by laurie — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 2:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• I mourn the days of CNN before the “personality”-oriented programming they’ve chosen to live or die by. I’m a fairly open-minded, political-center type but CNN is poisoning itself, and fast. Hosts like Eliot Spitzer and Piers Morgan make me actively AVOID the channel – much like the erstwhile Headline News became unwatchable with Nancy Grace and Joy Behar.

  Comment by Caller from Burbank — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 2:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• More like Nancy Disgrace. Did anyone see Gerry Spences book about her?

  Comment by Jack — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 3:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• What’s up with the play by play on Piers?

  Comment by Khouri Can't Write — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 4:32pm PST  Reply to this post

  • The play-by-play is a no-brainer. He’s replacing Larry King, a guy who’s show dominated the airwaves for nearly a quarter-century. Morgan is also a new personality, one that is very unlike King.

    Also, King was more-or-less forced to step aside, so the play-by-play is really a Conan/Leno sequel…though hopefully not as toxic.

    Comment by Stan — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 5:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• I didn’t mind the limited glimpses I’ve seen of Morgan prior to him taking over for King. But his incessant, overly smug promos really put me off.

  It really seems like CNN can’t do anything right. They need a complete overhaul of their entire style and lineup before I would even consider watching them.

  Comment by Anderson Pooper — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 5:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• I only seen the Condi Rice interview and was not impressed with his condesending questions. He seems rather smug but unlike Larry King I do believe he does some research before he has a guest on and knows who he is talking to.
  I forgot about the Ricky interview but from seeing him at the Golden Globes awards perhaps CNN should hire him.
  If I was CNN I would look to local news talent not ex-Governors known for their client number but local talent like Paul Majors from California or Ian Punnett from coast to coast. Both of them are very good at interviewing, wich seems to be a lost talent and also both have a good sense of humor. I would replace their rather boring Showbiz Tonite with Jason Mathesion and Alexis Thompson who have a local showbiz radio show on a Hubbard radio station and he does entertaiment news for the local Fox TV station ….CNN should try a giant revamping of their programing.
  Who hired their lineup anyway? also a show with bloggers would be fun powerlineblog.com just left his radio show that had many major author interviews and lots of humor, mix it up CNN you can be Number 2.

  Comment by jane — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 8:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• “I only seen the Condi Rice interview…”
  This is how I know you’re a FOX viewer.

  Comment by Ba67 — Monday January 24, 2011 @ 2:38pm PST  Reply to this post