FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 record photo, Piers Morgan arrives astatine the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel connected successful Beverly Hills, Calif. British presenter Piers Morgan volition articulation News Corp and Fox News Media and big a TV amusement that volition aerial successful the U.S., Britain and Australia, the institution said Thursday Sept. 16, 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 record photo, Piers Morgan arrives astatine the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel connected successful Beverly Hills, Calif. British presenter Piers Morgan volition articulation News Corp and Fox News Media and big a TV amusement that volition aerial successful the U.S., Britain and Australia, the institution said Thursday Sept. 16, 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) (Invision)

LONDON – British presenter Piers Morgan volition articulation News Corp and Fox News Media and big a TV amusement that volition aerial successful the U.S., Britain and Australia, the institution said Thursday.

News Corp enforcement seat Rupert Murdoch said Morgan, 56, is “the broadcaster each transmission wants but is excessively acrophobic to hire.” Murdoch added successful a statement: “Piers is simply a superb presenter, a talented writer and says what radical are reasoning and feeling.”

The amusement is billed arsenic the primetime gully connected the caller transmission talkTV, expected to motorboat successful the U.K. successful aboriginal 2022. It volition besides aerial connected the video streaming work FOX Nation successful the U.S. and connected Sky News Australia. Morgan said helium would besides go a columnist for The Sun and The New York Post.

Morgan said his caller amusement volition beryllium a “fearless forum for lively statement and agenda-setting interviews,” and praised Murdoch for championing escaped speech.

Morgan near Britain’s ITV successful March aft sparking a grounds 50,000 spectator complaints with arguable comments astir Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Morgan said helium did not judge Meghan’s claims -- made during a bombshell interrogation with Oprah Winfrey -- astir however the monarchy allegedly ignored her struggles with intelligence health.

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Britain's media watchdog said earlier this period that Morgan's comments whitethorn person offended immoderate but were not successful breach of the broadcasting code.

The presenter began his media vocation astatine News Corp immoderate 3 decades agone and has worked for tabloids including News of the World.

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