Piers Morgan “may have been oversold” to the American public, according to Larry King, who said that Morgan should have “perhaps started softer” when launching his CNN chat show. But it was not the British host’s style to “start quietly,” King observed Speaking on a show, King said of his decision to step down from his long-running show, “it was time to get off the train.”
And he praised his successor, though admitted he had not seen many shows. “I think he’s a fine broadcaster; I haven’t seen a lot, but the times I’ve seen they have been fine,” King said. Asked about why he thought Morgan’s show had rated badly, King said it had been given too high profile a launch.
“One of the problems they did was to oversell it – they said he was going to be dangerous, he was going to be water-cooler talk, it was ‘wait till you see me, I’m different.’ Well, he’s good – but he’s not that dangerous.”
