Piers Morgan Taking Over For Larry King?

Is Piers Morgan really taking over for Larry King? Apparently, the America’s Got Talent Judge is in negotiations with CNN for the job and word has it that CNN wants him bad! The deal is said to be worth $5.5 Million for a 4 year gig that would stat in the fall.

Meanwhile, King, now 76, has reigned over American television for decades, with the Larry King Show first airing in 1985. However, his ratings for the first three months of this year fell to an all-time low of just 771,000 viewers, down 43 per cent in the last year.

According to UK’s Telegraph, CNN executives were impressed by his British chat show, Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, in which he interviewed Gordon Brown.

Morgan is expected to quit his role on Britain’s Got Talent and base himself permanently in the US. and is said to have the blessings of his boss Simon Cowell who has wished him good luck.

So what do you think, will you watch?

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