Piers Morgan’s Trump interview was beaten in the ratings by a HIGNFY repeat and people love it
Piers Morgan’s interview with Donald Trump aboard Air Force One was watched by 1.2 million viewers on ITV on Monday night.
It was beaten in the ratings by the 1.5 million who watched a Have I Got News For You repeat from 2017 which was on BBC1 at the same time.
Ratings: Piers Morgan's interview with Trump drew 1.2m for ITV. Over on BBC1, a repeat of HIGoNFY garnered 1.5m viewers.
— Lorna Cooper (@Coops_tv) July 17, 2018
And did people take delight in the fact that Morgan’s much-hyped interview was beaten by a year-old panel game featuring his long-time arch enemy, Ian Hislop?
Of course they did, beginning with the guest host of the Have I Got News For You episode that beat him.
A repeat of me hosting #HIGNFY got more viewers than an interview with the failing low-ratings @realdonaldtrump Sad! https://t.co/HphCLQOwio
— Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) July 18, 2018
You gotta feel for the guy. He compromises his journalistic integrity, weirdly and intimately ties his own reputation to an erratic, lying, security-risk President, and then everyone would rather watch Ian Hislop for the second time anyway. https://t.co/inavMo04t3
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 17, 2018
Wow, even after 20 years, Ian Hislop owning Piers without even trying.
— Reverend Anderson Molenaar III (@RevAMol) July 17, 2018
I wish Americans could appreciate just how hilariously brutal this is. https://t.co/KY5tKFE3xl
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) July 17, 2018
That twat blocked more people than watched his show. https://t.co/NUQGbP7PXQ
— Rob Fitzpatrick (@rob_fitzpatrick) July 18, 2018
— gahhhhh (@tommyuk1985) July 17, 2018
Morgan wasn’t taking it lying down, of course he wasn’t.
Hi Boyd, it rated very strongly when it first aired on @GMB throughout yesterday morning (21.5% share) & it rated comfortably above ITV’s slot avg when we then repeated it all again at 10.50pm.
So is it perhaps more a case of ‘I didn’t get a Trump interview (again)’ fatigue? https://t.co/MjwMAV8Ty6— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 17, 2018
Yes. My Trump special got double @BBCNewsnight's ratings despite airing 20 minutes later. https://t.co/UOaMnMjRTR
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 17, 2018
Although when it gets to the stage where you have to point out you beat Newsnight, the battle might already be lost.
