[Boiler]

I thought a thread for this might as well be started.

Schedule details here: https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/piers-at-8-ta ... -announced

[Rosvanian]

Mmm, I wonder what it's going to be like.

[Boiler]

Well, given that outside of television hours it'll carry (I assume) a webcam feed of TalkRadio, and TalkRadio will carry a sound feed of TalkTV during TV programme hours...

I listened (note: not watched) to a little bit of KGBNews the other day; I noticed it was quite 'live' acoustically, like no-one had considered damping reflections where they gob off from.

What a surprise.

[Youngian]

Tom N-D and Morgan do have proper journalistic chops if they care to use them instead of Tweeting about wokes. Sharon Osbourne though, is she on loan from Kerrang?

7:00pm The News Desk with Tom Newton-Dunn

News UK’s specialist journalists from print and broadcast will join Tom every night to share the very latest in their fields. Including reports from The Times‘s political team and The Sun‘s showbiz desk. Sports news will be provided by talkSPORT‘s correspondents, while business comes from reporters from across News Corp’s titles.

8:00pm Piers Morgan Uncensored

Live from Ealing, the show promises to celebrate ‘free speech’ with lively debate, big-name interviews and “plenty of fun”.

9:00pm The Talk with Sharon Osbourne

The panel debate will bring together five opinionated famous faces – all from different backgrounds and with differing views – to debate the most interesting stories of the day.

[Samanfur]

No, but she got fired from a talk show on CBS last year for being racist, so hiring her's sticking a finger up at the wokes.

[MisterMuncher]

My deep, abiding fondness for Ozzy and liking his being alive, which is largely due to Sharon can't really offset the fact that she's an absolute abscess of a person.

She's been fucking over his collaborators for decades now, it was inevitable she'd slip on her arse in a more public forum than the metal fraternity and I'm absolutely delighted to see it.

[Youngian]

“I don’t fucking understand Brexit” is the most political thing I’ve heard Ozzy say. Nor does his wife but it didn’t stop her gobbing off about immigrants from her Californian home.

[Youngian]

Murdoch’s happy to put business before his own daft views. Is there any demand for more right wing populist anger now their government is in power and making an unprecedented balls up? GBNews’s pitiful ratings suggest not as they’re now reduced to ranting about statues and Gary Neville. That doesn’t look like the road Morgan is treading. He’d rather have James O’Brien’s numbers than Dan Wooton’s

[Spoonman]

Talk TV launched on Monday night. Let's see how their big hitter, Piers "Clarkson didn't twat him anywhere near hard enough" Morgan has been getting on with his first two 8pm shows...

Two things...

(a) a drop of 100k viewers for Morgan after his first night!
(b) Even allowing for its also-ran ratings, it looks like KGB News has little to fear in the short term from Murdoch trying to butt in on them.

[Youngian]

Alien Vs Predator

[davidjay]

I can't see much of a market for this channel. Talk Radio's audience have got ITV2 and Channel 5 to cater for their televisual needs and it's going to be a bit downmarket for KGB News viewers.

[satnav]

Both TalkTV and GBNews seem to be targeting the 8-9pm slot like it is a spot in the schedules that no other broadcaster has ever tapped into in the past. The reason broadcasters have not thrown the kitchen sink at this particular time slot is probably because they realise that it is not particularly popular with viewers. The 9-10 slot has more potential for viewers because by then people are ready to settle down to watch TV for a hour or so before going to bed or catching up on the news. I'm really struggling to think of a really successful show that has ever aired in the 8-9 slot.

[Andy McDandy]

Countryfile, Casualty, many soaps, X Factor and all its spin-offs.

The problem isn't the time itself, more that there's plenty of other options already available.

I also think that just as Jonathan Ross and Danny Baker spent the 80s trying to emulate David Letterman, all these channels are assuming there's a British appetite for Fox News beyond a few thousand obsessives.

[Youngian]

I also think that just as Jonathan Ross and Danny Baker spent the 80s trying to emulate David Letterman, all these channels are assuming there's a British appetite for Fox News beyond a few thousand obsessives.

ITV tried the late night US chat show slot more recently than that (Bradley Walsh, IIRC doing the honours). For some reason UK audiences haven’t taken to that schedule. Neither do they watch a broadcast version of the Sun as Murdoch discovered in the early days of Sky. Why he’s having another go, I don’t know. Bit late for a platform to slag off Tom Watson and Max Mosley.

[Spoonman]

I can't see much of a market for this channel. Talk Radio's audience have got ITV2 and Channel 5 to cater for their televisual needs and it's going to be a bit downmarket for KGB News viewers.

I read somewhere else on T**tter (Apologies for a lack of source) that the audience breakdown figures for Morgan's show skewed towards 65+ years old. Not exactly a demographic that most advertisers are drooling at.

[Samanfur]

That doesn't surprise me.

Did anyone else see the TV ad for the show? So cringeworthy that if Morgan hadn't been in the middle of it, I'd have thought it was a parody.

[MisterMuncher]

I also think that just as Jonathan Ross and Danny Baker spent the 80s trying to emulate David Letterman, all these channels are assuming there's a British appetite for Fox News beyond a few thousand obsessives.

ITV tried the late night US chat show slot more recently than that (Bradley Walsh, IIRC doing the honours). For some reason UK audiences haven’t taken to that schedule. Neither do they watch a broadcast version of the Sun as Murdoch discovered in the early days of Sky. Why he’s having another go, I don’t know. Bit late for a platform to slag off Tom Watson and Max Mosley.

Because OAN and other such micro-networks in the US show that it's a viable, if difficult business model as the TV marketplace becomes more fragmented. Murdoch (famously) can't do internet, but this kind of thing is right up his street. The costs are minimal, and the well-intentioned think pieces are free advertising.

I reckon it's a test-bed for a global-ish rollout of similar no-budget all opinion, no news mini-Foxes.

[Spoonman]

Going down faster than a nympho in Ibiza...

Piers Morgan has suffered another blow to his new show on TalkTV, losing nearly half its viewers overnight.

The former Good Morning Britain host made a decent start to his tenure on Monday, with a peak audience of nearly 400,000 tuning into his Donald Trump debate.

His second show saw a massive decline in viewers overnight, with 216,000 opting for the Tuesday edition of Uncensored.

However, he’s lost yet more of the audience share, with just shy of 100,000 switching off.

The BARB figures for Wednesday night’s viewership have almost halved, this time from 215,900 to 123,000...

...Sharon Osbourne’s show, which airs straight after, pulled in a crowd of just 10,000 in the 9pm slot.

Tom Newton Dunn’s The News Desk at 7pm crashed to just 15,300, the night after an interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/28/piers-mo ... -16551583/

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[satnav]

I watched a bit of the Jeremy Kyle show earlier and it was pretty dire. He was predicted that Keir Starmer would eventually get a fixed penalty fine and this would 'level up the field with Boris Johnson'. Thankfully his fellow host pointed out that it was very unlikely that this would happen.

Kyle doesn't appear to realise that if the police in Durham can be pressured into reopening the Starmer case then eventually similar pressure could be put on the Met to issue further fines to Boris Johnson.

[Boiler]

Durham police. Dominic Cummings?