Piers Morgan vows to “cancel cancel culture” with his new TV talkshow and “take those ultra woke lunatics head on.”The journalist and broadcaster was speaking to Sky News Australia on a visit to the country to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the channel, attending a party at the Sydney Opera House.And he told News Corp publications, “I’ll be calling out extremists from all sides, not just in Australia but anywhere – and especially those who think cancel culture’s a great idea and want to compel us all to lead their own dreary joyless lifestyles.”Morgan’s new daily talkshow will be aired on Sky News Australia, as well as on the UK’s brand new TalkTV station and on Fox Nation in the US.This international TV coverage recognises Morgan’s pulling power since his return from the US in 2014, following his firing from CNN.
It is one arm of an extraordinary deal he has signed with his former boss Rupert Murdoch, said to be worth £50million ($67m), which includes regular columns in the UK tabloid newspaper The Sun, the New York Post in the US and a book with Murdoch’s publishing house Harper Collins.At the time the deal was announced, Morgan said in statement that he wants his show to be “a fearless forum for lively debate and agenda-setting interviews, and a place that celebrates the right for everyone to have an opinion.”And Murdoch called Morgan “the broadcaster every channel wants but is too afraid to hire.”Despite the high price he’s paid for Morgan’s services, Murdoch clearly thinks he’s lucked out on the deal, following the TV host’s success at ITV’s breakfast show Good Morning Britain.
Initially hired on a part-time basis by the UK’s biggest rival to the BBC, Morgan’s firebrand presence saw ratings go up, and he was
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