Exclusive: Piers Morgan Says He’s Staying at CNN to Do “Big Name” Interviews
CNN’s Piers Morgan, who is ending his nightly show on the network, isn’t going anywhere. He told me last night that he’s staying at the network. “I’ll make a deal to do 20 ro 25 shows a year, all interviews with big names. That’s what I wanted to do in the first place, not reports on snow storms and that kind of thing.”
Morgan said his producer, Jonathan Wald, has already made a deal to stick around. What does he think will replace his current show? “A news program of some kind,” he said. He also acknowledged that his campaign for gun control was like “beating my head against a wall.”
Morgan was one of dozens of big names who attended a swanky dinner at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills last night thrown by Harvey Weinstein to show off numbers from a possible new Broadway musical called “Finding Neverland.”
Oprah Winfrey, Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, U2’s Bono and Adam Clayton, Harry Styles from One Direction, Josh Groban, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Gayle King, Sharon Osbourne, Tyler Perry, Irving Azoff, Universal Music chief Lucian Grange, Bob Balaban, Dermot Mulroney, plus Steve Coogan with Philomena Lee, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, hit songwriter Diane Warren, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Nicole Avant, all went wild from performances by the show’s composers Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and Laura Michelle Kelly.
Jason Alexander turned up as a surprise performer and narrator of the show. Weinstein said he’s been trying to get Alexander to join the permanent cast that already includes Matthew Morrison from “Glee.” But Alexander told me last night, just like recent “Seinfeld” reunion during the Super Bowl, was a one off experience.
Alexander– this is an exclusive— is preparing his own show for Broadway, not a musical– possibly for next year.
The reception to the “Finding Neverland” songs must have been gratifying for Weinstein, who tried unsuccessfully to mount a version of the show in the UK last year. It fizzled. This new edition sounds like the right thing. Harvey told his guests that getting this show up “is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
While Weinstein has invested in a lot of hit stage shows, this is the first one he’s created from scratch. It’s based on his Oscar nominated Best Picture starring Johnny Depp and directed by Marc Forster.
For the final number, the Neverlanders were joined by Darlene Love, Tata Vega and Judith Hill from the documentary “20 Feet from Stardom.” That film won a prize earlier in the day at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Oh great, CNN’s male version of BaBa WahWah.
I guess this meaNS HE IS AS BIG A LIAR AS THE PRESIDENT? hE SAID HE was LEAVING.
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What a wanker!
I can believe he has been beating his head against a wall, he must have since he hasn’t a single working brain cell, either that or his momma dropped him on his head as a child.
I think Pirs is full of horse manure. Does he really believe anyone will watch him? He is so pathetic, just dying for soemone to pay attention to him…
I watched Ted Turner in interviews during the 80’s. His dream is gone.
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Is there some reason WHY I should even care about what Piers Morgan does .. or where he works? I have never seen his program
Just leave already you wanker.
The new phrase…Liberalism progressivism is doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results
[…] “I’ll make a deal to do 20 or 25 shows a year (at CNN), all interviews with big names. That’s what I wanted to do in the first place, not reports on snow storms and that kind of thing.”– Outgoing CNN primetime host Piers Morgan, who’s show is being canceled for low ratings; Morgan said last week that he was “ready to move on” after news broke that his show would be ending [Showbiz 411] […]
This is good news. CNN has been needing someone to clean the bathrooms for quite a while now…
[…] According to Showbiz 411, Morgan “will make a deal to do 20 to 25 shows a year, all interviews with big names.” Morgan said, “That’s what I wanted to do all along. Not reports on snow storms and that kind of thing.” […]
Its the big name interviews that Piers has failed at. Deport his azz.
Go home Piers. We don’t care for your views here.
who is Piers Morgan????
who ????
who cares quit watching CNN some time ago.. just to watch all the time but the lost LOU DOBBS and GLENN BECK the ONLY TWO that have a CLUE.. haven’t watched ANY of it since..
What difference does it make? One lib is the same as any other.
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LOL! CNN! They FINALLY decide to solve the Morgan problem…and then KEEP him! This is why you should STOP banging your head against the wall BEFORE you start to black out!
It does not matter. No one will watch him anyway. CNN keeps shooting it self in the foot.
… and in-between “Big Name Interviews” Piers will be cleaning toilets, sweeping floors, and cleaning windows…..
[…] “I’ll make a deal to do 20 or 25 shows a year (at CNN), all interviews with big names. That’s what I wanted to do in the first place, not reports on snow storms and that kind of thing.”– Outgoing CNN primetime host Piers Morgan, who’s show is being canceled for low ratings; Morgan said last week that he was “ready to move on” after news broke that his show would be ending [Showbiz 411] […]
It’s good. he is a good interviewer
i think he should be deported as a criminal..
[…] “I’ll make a deal to do 20 or 25 shows a year (at CNN), all interviews with big names. That’s what I wanted to do in the first place, not reports on snow storms and that kind of thing.”– Outgoing CNN primetime host Piers Morgan, who’s show is being canceled for low ratings; Morgan said last week that he was “ready to move on” after news broke that his show would be ending [Showbiz 411] […]
Thank you, Morgan. I was hoping CNN would sink like a rock. With you still on board now I know it will.
What a punk. Chuck Baldwin exposed Morgan for what he really is.