TV personality and journalist Piers Morgan is set to return to screens a year after his controversial exit from Good Morning Britain. The presenter stormed off the ITV show in March 2021 after he clashed with weatherman Alex Beresford over Meghan Markle.
Morgan had said he didn’t ‘believe a word’ the Duchess of Sussex said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey - sparking a record 58,000 complaints to Ofcom. He was told by ITV bosses to apologise but decided to quit instead.
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Now Morgan is about to launch his first TV programme since the row. Piers Morgan Uncensored will air on the new TalkTV channel in the UK - as well as being screened in the US and Australia.
TalkTV is part of Rupert Murdoch's News UK empire and will feature live chat and news debate. Morgan’s new show will air weeknights and he has promised it will ‘annoy all the right people’.
Former US President Donald Trump is Morgan’s first guest and their chat has been dubbed ‘the most explosive interview of the year’. But the episode has already proved controversial after Trump claimed a promo clip had been ‘doctored’ to make it look like he had walked out.
When does TalkTV launch?
The channel will go live on Monday (April 25) at 7pm, with Piers Morgan Uncensored launching at 8pm the same day. Other presenters set to have shows on TalkTV include Jeremy Kyle, political journalist Tom Newton-Dunn, Sharon Osborne and politician Richard Tice.
How to watch TalkTV
TalkTV will be available to watch for free in various ways and the channel number will depend on your provider. Viewers can find it on Sky 526, Virgin Media 627, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217.
It will also be on streaming platforms Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Samsung TV Plus.
What to expect from Piers Morgan Uncensored
Introducing the show, Morgan said: "A year ago today, I was forced to leave a job that I loved at the peak of its success for having the audacity to express an honestly held opinion. Well, this shouldn't happen in any democracy supposedly built on the principles of free speech and freedom of expression.
“So I’m delighted to now be returning to live television with a new primetime show whose main purpose will be to cancel the cancel culture which has infected societies around the world. I wanted to be a platform for lively, vigorous debate, the news-making interviews, and that increasingly taboo three letter-word, fun."
