Piers Morgan is Larry King’s replacement as the host of CNN’s 9 p.m. hour.
An individual close to talks between the network and the British journalist and judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” confirmed the move to TheWrap Friday. An official announcement will come within the next two weeks.
CNN has made an offer to Morgan, but the ink is not yet dry on his contract. The individual said both sides were getting along well and are expected to finalize the deal shortly.
The show would tape in both Los Angeles and New York, the individual said.
Morgan initiated the conversations with CNN, but his contract with NBC’s “Talent” had been preventing him from making a deal with CNN. Wednesday, Morgan told Jay Leno that he had a new deal with NBC, but he was coy about whether that meant he was going to CNN.
Read More: By Hunter Walker, The Wrap
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an imported idiot for an over the hill talking head——some choice—–just what we need, an outcast from a declining nation to espouse all that is here or coming here from a declining area of the ,world