Launch TalkTV

[all new Phil]

I do wonder why The Talk hasn't had much success. Osbourne was obviously a poor choice for anchor but if you take her out of the equation (and she has had a lot of time off it already), it's a perfectly reasonable current affairs discussion show. It's certainly not painful to watch like the rival show at GB News in that time slot with fairly low-rent panelists and a high chance of Wootton just shouting over the one token left winger.

They've obviously tried to attract some talkRADIO audience into watching The Talk by upping the number of talkRADIO presenters appearing on it - yesterday having Mike Graham, Jeremy & Ian.

Opinionated talking head fatigue. It’s perfectly watchable but it’s hardly must-see. I think that underlies a lot of their issues at Talk TV - nobody is really that bothered about it. I’ll stick it on if there’s nothing else on (particularly TND), but I’ll not give it a second thought otherwise and I certainly wouldn’t be inclined to catch up later on. I don’t know what the answer is for them, you can’t deny Piers Morgan has had some good guests and it’s a well produced show, part of me thinks it might be better to have Piers do a straight news show (including interviews like now) as that was where I felt he excelled at GMB rather than his rants, which have become a parody of themselves.