Will you be watching?

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Piers Morgan--he of Britain's Got Talent, America's Got Talent and other such shows--is taking Larry King's old timespot and fashioning his own talk show for the American audiences.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1815528420110118

Piers Morgan gets big CNN debut, but beaten by Palin

LOS ANGELES Jan 18 (Reuters) - More than two million people watched the CNN talk show debut of Piers Morgan -- but even the draw of an interview with Oprah Winfrey was no match for Sarah Palin on rival Fox News.

CNN said on Tuesday that 2.099 million people watched "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Monday -- a 219 percent increase on the average audience for veteran Larry King's previous show in that spot.

But the Fox News show "Hannity", which featured an interview with Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin, drew 2.3 million viewers, according to ratings data.

Morgan, an ebullient British former newspaper editor and reality TV judge, was appointed last year to replace King at CNN, which has lost audiences in recent years to its more partisan left and right-wing rivals at MSNBC and Fox News.

Question is, who will be watching?

His premiere episode was last night, and featured an interview with Oprah Winfrey, and nearly tripled the audience King was receiving.

I understand that many people might not like talk shows in general, but I'm interested in who will be willing to watch the show if there is a guest they are interested in seeing, without prejudice to the host. I myself fear that I often won't watch a show because there is someone on the show I can't stand (case in point: Regis and Kelly).

Do you think this show might be a winner, or just another failure?

Oh, pay no attention to Palin on Hannity. Let's face it--she's got no support other than that offered by Focks, and we all know what whackjobs they are over there.