Piers Morgan Tonight‘s Evolution Continues As Show Prepares For First Live Audience

by Mark Joyella | 3:25 pm, February 4th, 2011

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When planning began for the debut of CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, set designers were given instructions to enable to studio to host a live studio audience. Next week, host Piers Morgan goes before a CNN audience for the first time. Followers of the PMT Twitter account got the first crack at tickets, with a tweet sent out this afternoon: “Want to come to the 1st ever live studio audience @PiersTonight? In NYC Wed. Feb. 9th 9pmET. For tickets email piersmorgantickets@gmail.com.”

The studio audience show will be a new incarnation for an evolving show, which kicked off with a recorded sit down interview with Oprah Winfrey shot in a hotel room, followed by a series of one-on-one hour-long in-studio interviews, and this week, live, multiple-guest coverage of Egypt.

The live audience format is not new for Morgan, who uses one in his UK interview show, Life Stories, which audience ticket websites describe this way:

You are invited to Piers Morgan’s SMASH HIT talk show which takes some of the biggest names in show business & public life to unpick their lives in an exclusive interview. VERY LIMITED AVAILABILITY!

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notsofast

Translation: “It’s already over.”
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Smash Hit? He is a loser with or without a audience. His ego is going to take a big hit when this show goes down in flames.
tatboy

Oh well THAT’S going to help…
Arkansas Steve

Piers:
Thank you for the invitation to be in your audience of lemmings.
My answer is not NO, it is HELL NO!!
KJH01

gordonbloyershow said:
Smash Hit? He is a loser with or without a audience. His ego is going to take a big hit when this show goes down in flames.

FYI- he wasn’t talking about his US-TV Show.

Obviously you don’t know about Life Stories.. it easily gets over 4million viewers making it the number 1 show in the UK..
Socialist

We will see what happens..
Phocus2

“Want to come to the 1st ever live studio audience @PiersTonight?” “No.”

The debut of CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, followed in 2 weeks by the debut of Piers Morgan Gone.