Good Morning Britain’s scores look rather a lot totally different a 12 months after Piers Morgan sensationally stop.
It’s the one-year anniversary for the reason that TV presenter notoriously stormed off the GMB set following a heated confrontation with weatherman Alex Beresford over Meghan Markle. Later that day, it was introduced that Piers had stop the ITV programme for good.
TV critic Scott Bryan checked out how GMB’s viewers scores have modified a 12 months later and claimed figures had plummeted by a couple of million.
He tweeted: ‘Fascinating to have a look at what has occurred to Good Morning Britain’s scores in comparison with this time final 12 months.
‘Peak viewers day P***s walked (ninth Mar 2021): 1.95m. Yesterday’s Good Morning Britain: Peak 910,000.’
Piers reacted by replying with an embarrassed emoji, whereas one follower commented: ‘By no means watched it for the reason that day he left, he made the present what it was!’
Nevertheless, others had been fast to throw GMB a bone and famous that it was a significant information occasion on this present day final 12 months with the aftermath of Meghan and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey.
One argued: ‘Unsure it’s truthful to check the day of a significant in a single day story (Meghan & Harry’s Oprah interview) with a median day.’
One other agreed: ‘Pandemic lockdown versus not? So many individuals watching much less TV this 12 months, I’ve observed.’
The scores are nonetheless greater than June 2021, when figures plunged to 450k.
Susanna Reid has continued to current the breakfast programme alongside a seat of rotating visitors, however Richard Madeley seems to be a semi-permanent fixture.
Acknowledging the anniversary of his viral TV second, Piers stated earlier: ‘A 12 months in the past immediately, I went for somewhat stroll… and within the phrases of Edith Piaf, je ne regrette rien! #LongWalkToFreedomOfSpeech.’
Ofcom reported that it had acquired greater than 41,000 complaints about Piers’ scathing remarks about Meghan and was investigating, nevertheless later cleared the broadcaster.
He’s now trying ahead to launching his new present, Piers Morgan Uncensored, on TalkTV this spring.
In a teaser for the each day collection, the 56-year-old stated: ‘A 12 months in the past immediately, I used to be pressured to go away a job that I liked on the peak of its success for having the audacity to precise an truthfully held opinion. Properly this shouldn’t occur in any democracy supposedly constructed on the ideas of free speech and freedom of expression.
‘So I’m delighted to now be returning to dwell tv with a brand new prime-time present whose principal objective will likely be to cancel cancel tradition which has contaminated societies all over the world.
‘I need it to be a platform for full of life, vigorous debate, the newsmaking interviews, and that more and more taboo three-letter phrase – enjoyable. I additionally need it to bother all the proper individuals. I’m Piers Morgan, uncensored.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to ITV for remark.
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