British TV host Piers Morgan said taking over for retiring Larry King is like replacing Frank Sinatra's Las Vegas show.

It was supposed to be Doctor Who's big night... bagging his first major acting gong with a sexy assistant on his arm.

British TV host Piers Morgan will take over Larry King's prime-time hour with "a candid, in-depth newsmaker interview program" starting in January, CNN announced Wednesday.

What's Your Reaction? Finally! After a summer of speculation, CNN and Piers Morgan have finally reached a deal to bring the "America's Got Talent" judge to the network to replace Larry King in the 9PM time slot.

Piers Morgan, the British personality long rumored for the job, is in. He'll bring a brash style. After months of speculation, CNN announced Wednesday that it had hired Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," to take over its 9 p.m. talk-show slot currently hosted by Larry King.

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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 said Wednesday that it had hired Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," to take over the talk-show slot hosted by Larry King.

The latest worst-kept secret in TV was finally confirmed this morning, as CNN revealed that America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan is set to succeed Larry King in CNN's weeknight 9 p.m. timeslot in January 2011. No name was announced for the show, which will presumably follow a one-on-one interview format similar to the shows he has hosted in his native Britain. Morgan is also expected to ...

CNN, hoping to bolster its flagging prime-time lineup, has settled on Morgan after delicate and wide-ranging negotiations.

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CNN finally made it official Wenesday: Piers Morgan is taking over for Larry King. I will say no more. Here's the release announcing the arrival of this "global media personality."

It's been rumored for months and now it's official: Piers Morgan is taking over Larry King 's 9pmET CNN slot, beginning in January. The first report of this came from an unlikely source: Ali Velshi 's Twitter.

This morning CNN president Jon Klein officially announced that America's Got Talent host Piers Morgan will be taking over Larry King's 9 p.m. time slot. Brian Stelter and Bill Carter said the deal was ready to go through almost two months ago, but there were a few details (e.g. money) to iron out. "He is a natural fit with Anderson Cooper, Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker in our prime time line ...

The two big CNN stories that started playing out side by side out this past spring/summer were about former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor and "America's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan getting their own primetime shows on the ratings-starved network, Spitzer as a replacement for Campbell Brown at 8 p.m. and Morgan as a replacement for Larry King at 9.

It's been a barely-veiled secret for months now, but today CNN is confirming that British journalist and sometime reality-show judge/contestant Piers Morgan will replace Larry King in primetime, starting next January. The proof will be in the show, but my thoughts on the move are pretty much what they were back when the idea first [...]

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