New station’s diatribes against wokeness manage to stay free of technical issues
Piers Morgan’s talkTV show Uncensored averaged 317,000 viewers during its first episode on Monday, as the television channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch, beat both Sky News and the BBC News channel during the same timeslot.won a 2% share of all television viewing at 8pm, with the audience peaking at 397,000 as curious viewers checked out the new offering but didn’t stay around for the full hour.
The new station, aided by an enormous advertising budget, was free of most of the technical issues which plagued last year’s launch of the rightwing GB News. Instead, viewers were treated to a heavily trailed interview with the former US president Donald Trump alongside a series of diatribes about “woke” policies, cancel culture and things you can’t say on television these days.
Under the strapline of “straight talking starts here”, talkTV consists of three hours of new programming between 7pm and 10pm: Morgan’s programme, a news and political discussion show hosted by Tom Newton-Dunn, and a panel programme presented by Sharon Osborne. The rest of the station’s output consists of programmes that use the lineup of the former audio-only talkRadio.
The initial ratings were marginally ahead of GB News’ launch night last year. Although talkTV’s ratings are likely to settle down over the coming weeks as the initial viewer curiosity wears off, the start suggests that there is an audience for a channel built around Morgan’s programme – which opened with a graphic of an exploding 3D brain with the words “woke insanity”, “snowflake society”, “the world’s gone mad” imposed over the top.
The analysts said talkTV’s future will be partly shaped by whether clips go viral on social media: “People like to feel part of a broader conversation, and prefer it when that conversation is widely shared and impactful.”
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