It's official!
Via LA Times:
After months of speculation, Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best-known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," has finally completed talks to take over Larry King's weeknight talk show on CNN. CNN, hoping to bolster its flagging prime-time lineup, has settled on Morgan after delicate and wide-ranging negotiations that cleared numerous obstacles, from the host's visa status to his role as a judge on NBC's summer staple "America's Got Talent," which he is expected to continue. King, for years the anchor of CNN's nightly programming, announced he was retiring from "Larry King Live" earlier this year. He's expected to wrap the show in December, with Morgan starting early next year. In Morgan, CNN is getting a brash former tabloid editor with a remarkable capacity for reinvention and a keen sense of the power of fame. "Piers has made his name posing tough questions to public figures, holding them accountable for their words and deeds," Jon Klein, the president of CNN/US, said in a statement. "He is able to look at all aspects of the news with style and humor with an occasional good laugh in the process. He is a natural fit with Anderson Cooper, Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker in our prime time line-up, and the ideal choice to update the storied tradtiion of newsmaker talk on CNN." Morgan said in a CNN news release: "I am thrilled to be joining CNN, and very much looking forward to bringing my own style of interviewing to the world's biggest, and best, TV news organization."Will he be wearing suspenders too?
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