Piers Morgan to Replace Larry King

CNN will be replacing Larry King's prime-hour show, Larry King Live, with British TV host, Piers Morgan. CNN announced on Monday that Piers Morgan will fill the hour with "a candid, in-depth news maker interview program," starting in January.

"Piers has made his name posing tough questions to public figures, holding them accountable for their words and deeds. He is able to look at all aspects of the news with style and humor with an occasional good laugh in the process," said CNN-US President Jon Klein.

The name of Morgan's new show was not specified in the news release from CNN. It will, however, air live on CNN-US at 9 PM ET, also, it will air on CNN-International, which is shown in over 200 countries. Morgan will be based in New York, but he will also work from Los Angeles and London for his show.

King announced this summer that he was going to step aside from CNN's show, "Larry King Live." He began hosting this show in 1985, so it's been around for a while.

Morgan has dreamed of one day filling the legendary suspenders of the man whom he considers to be the greatest TV interviewer of them all, it seems that his dream has finally come true.

Morgan is 45 years old now, he started his journalism career as a newspaper reporter in the United Kingdom for the Wimbledon News. When he was 28 years old, in 1994, Morgan became the youngest editor ever at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. He started working at the Daily Mirror as editor-in-chief in 1995. This was a post that he held for nine years, showing that he does have the ability to work at the same thing for a long time.

He left the Mirror under controversy in 2004. Morgan then became a television personality and was pretty successful there. He hosted interview programs on the BBC and ITV. Simon Cowell later hired Morgan as a judge on the "Britain's Got Talent" show.

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Morgan's print journalism career didn't stop at the Mirror, he wrote a monthly interview column for GQ magazine, and he also writes two regular columns for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, which he will continue, and he will also provide regular columns to CNN.com.

We will see how this turns out for the prime-time show. Who knows, maybe he will even rise above Larry King. I'm sure, however, that he will at very least do well.