Piers Morgan Tonight News

Huffington Post has a few interesting articles today relating to Piers Morgan tonight. Next week PMT will have a week of guests hosts with Regis Philbin filling in on Tuesday night. Philbin's buddy David Letterman will be the guest.

There's also more trouble for Piers concerning the hacking scandal in the UK. BBC anchor Jeremy Paxman claimed in testimony today that Morgan taught him how to hack into a cell phone. HuffPo reported:

Morgan, who testified before Leveson in December, has long seen his name pop up at the fringes of the ongoing phone hacking scandal. He has vehemently denied ever having hacked a phone or having told anyone to hack a phone, and there has been no hard evidence linking him to the practice.
Still, accusations that hacking was rife during his editorship of the Daily Mirror -- or that he acquired private voicemails through hacking -- have persisted.Paxman -- who has tangled with Morgan about hacking before -- said that, at a lunch in 2002, Morgan first claimed to know the exact details of a conversation between the two (though he said it was quite possible Morgan was "imagining" when he said this), and then described how to hack a phone to him.

Piers' cheeky response on Twitter?

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Saturday Night Live Lampoons Piers Morgan Tonight

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CNN Sticks By Piers

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that not only did CNN thoroughly investigate Piers Morgan before hiring him but that they are standing by him.
An unnamed CNN source said, ""He wasn't hired to be a news anchor or correspondent; he was being hired as a personality—that dictated the standards," a person close to the network said. "He came off as a guy who had been chastened by his past and as someone who had the intelligence to grow and learn from it," this person added."
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Piers on TSR

Piers Morgan talked with Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday's The Situation Room about being sucked into the hacking scandal and having his name mentioned today before Parliament.

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Could Scandal Sink Piers?

From TVNewser:

A U.K. political blog alleges that phone hacking was not contained to News Corp.’s News of the World, and that News competitor The Daily Mirror also engaged in the practice. The editor of the Mirror at the time? Piers Morgan, now a primetime host on CNN.

The Guido Fawkes blog, led by libertarian blogger Paul Staines, charges that Morgan was aware that at least one scoop was obtained by hacking a celebrity’s voicemail, but decided to publish it anyway, in an effort to revive the brand of the paper’s gossip column:


The paper’s editor at the time, one Piers Morgan, was receiving flak for the fact that his 3AM Girls gossip section was dire rubbish and lacked any bite compared to Morgan’s old Bizarre column in News International’s Sun. Morgan decided to let 3AMGirl Jessica Callan break the illegally obtained story under her byline in order to try and rid the column of its banal reputation.

The parent company of The Daily Mirror responded to the then rumors a few days ago, saying “Trinity Mirror’s position is clear. Our journalists work within the criminal law and the PCC code of conduct.”

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This Week's Guests for Piers Morgan Tonight + More

Breaking: CNN's Piers Morgan interviews CNN legend Larry King... live this week

"The new 9pm" Piers Morgan will interview the former 9pmET CNN host, Larry King, later this week as part of Hollywood Week on "Piers Morgan Tonight." Says Piers: "'I can't think of many people I'd rather interview than Larry King, and I'm sure people will be fascinated by the dynamic between us, for obvious reasons.”
King hosted "Larry King Live" for more than 25 years, before stepping down last year. The live interview comes in the wake of a much talked about King interview last week on London's Radio 4.


Piers Morgan Tonight is coming to Los Angeles Oscar week and putting Hollywood’s biggest stars in the spotlight….

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Piers Morgan Tonight’s Guest Line Up for February 21-Febuary 25th.


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21st
Rock and Roll Legend Rod Stewart

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd
Playboy’s Hugh Hefner and New Fiancée Crystal Harris

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd
Musician Kid Rock

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24th
Legendary Actor Sharon Stone

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25th
TBC


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A Few Odds & Ends

CNN has released the line up for Piers Morgan Tonight for the coming week:

MONDAY, JANUARY 31
Musician Kid Rock

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Rock and Roll Legend Rod Stewart

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Legendary ABC Correspondent Barbara Walters

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Oscar Award Winner Anthony Hopkins


In a press release today it was announced that Mark Whitaker has been named Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide:

Mark Whitaker has joined CNN Worldwide in a newly created role as executive vice president and managing editor, reporting directly to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker was most recently senior vice president and Washington bureau chief at NBC News and the former editor of Newsweek.

In this new role, Whitaker will lead editorial coverage across CNN’s multiple platforms and influence the overall approach, tone and direction of CNN’s reporting. He will assume this new position on Feb. 14, 2011 and will be based in New York.

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