Piers Morgan: US chat show 'trial and error'

Piers Morgan: US chat show 'trial and error'
Piers Morgan: US chat show 'trial and error' (Image credit: PA WIRE)

Piers Morgan has admitted his US chat show has "all been trial and error thus far". The former newspaper editor - who took over from CNN legend Larry King in January - has scored high-profile interviews with stars like Charlie Sheen and Oprah Winfrey, but acknowledged the programme had its faults. He told the Hollywood Reporter: "I think that it's all been trial and error thus far, and I like the errors more than the successes. "The successes are pleasing for a few seconds and then you move on. It's when things don't work out quite how you thought that are very interesting." But Piers - who also appears alongside Sharon Osbourne on the judging panel of America's Got Talent - said he didn't mind blowing his own trumpet. "Everyone in this business is a self-promoter; I just pride myself on being better at it than most of them," he added. The TV host also had words of praise for his former Britain's Got Talent co-judge Simon Cowell as he launches the US version of X Factor. "I would never bet against Simon having another smash hit. X Factor is a very strong format and he's still the best at what he does. I'm looking forward to it," he revealed.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.