Piers Morgan pulls show from TalkTV

Another twist in the ongoing TV wars. After nearly two years of competing with GB News, TalkTV’s biggest star last night dropped a bombshell: Piers Morgan is taking his daily Uncensored show off the terrestrial network to focus on its YouTube channel. The former Mirror editor says that television schedules had become an ‘unnecessary straitjacket’ and that moving online will allow him to conduct longer, more in-depth interviews. Though hopefully in a format more riveting than last night’s Tucker/Putin snoozefest…

Speaking to the Times, Morgan said that greater numbers of people were watching his show on YouTube and that ‘you can’t defy audiences or tell them how they should be consuming’. He gave as an example the interview he published on Monday afternoon with Rishi Sunak which made headlines after Sunak agreed to a £1,000 bet over his Rwanda policy. ‘Had we waited until 8pm to air it first on TalkTV, it would have been overtaken by the huge breaking news of King Charles’s cancer diagnosis,’ he said.