Prince Harry got an apology from the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for using unlawful methods to gather information about his private life.
25.04.2023 - 13:41 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: It’s a year to the day since Rupert Murdoch’s big British television bet TalkTV took flight, hitched firmly to the wings of Piers Morgan.
In the pre-launch marketing blitz, Morgan was pictured as half angel, half devil, but there was little doubt that News Corp’s UK arm thought he would be manna from heaven for television audiences.
“Love him or hate him, you won’t want to miss him,” ran the poster line, dwarfing branding for TalkTV, the new network he was spearheading. The message seemed clear: TalkTV was Piers TV. Morgan vision made real.
It was a mistake. Or at least that’s the view of Richard Wallace, the man who was parachuted in to run TalkTV three months after its launch. “He said very clearly, in front of all staff, that building a TV station around the cult of an individual is not the way to go,” says an insider.
Just ask Tucker Carlson, who was ruthlessly ousted from Fox News on Monday in a firing that proved that no one presenter is bigger than a Murdoch network.
Morgan’s big-name interviews on his Uncensored show (which also streams on Fox Nation in the U.S.) have been a bright spot of TalkTV’s first year, but Wallace’s arrival was a sign that not everything was going to plan.
Murdoch had flirted with the idea of a Fox-style news opinion channel in the UK for years, but had seen GB News steal a march and occupy similar territory. TalkTV was notching up dreaded “zero” ratings, splashy launch shows like The News Desk were struggling to find an identity, and it had failed to mesh legacy radio output with its new screen presence. “Nobody’s pretending mistakes haven’t been made,” a source reflects.
Murdoch wants to transform TalkTV from a loss leader to a cash cow capable of influencing the
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Prince William and Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) settled a phone-hacking claim for a “very large sum” three years ago, according to lawyers for William’s brother Prince Harry.
EXCLUSIVE: It’s a year to the day since Rupert Murdoch’s big British television bet TalkTV took flight, hitched firmly to the wings of Piers Morgan.
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RIP Len Goodman, 78 – welder, dancer, judge, and devoted cricket & West Ham fan. Always had a laugh with Len, and swapped a few strong opinions.
Prince Harry’s battle with the British tabloids will continue this week with the preliminary hearing into his action against The Sun newspaper set to take place in London Tuesday.
Piers Morgan is not happy that Prince Harry is attending the coronation of his father, King Charles III, and suspects Meghan Markle is to blame. The former Good Morning Britain host is not shy about his feelings for Meghan and Harry, and has regularly blasted the famous couple, particularly since their explosive Oprah interview, Netflix series and bombshell book.