# Piers Morgan Uncensored
**Piers Morgan Uncensored** is a British interview and current affairs program presented by [Piers Morgan](https://www.edgepedia.org/piers-morgan), launched on 25 April 2022 at 8pm on [News UK](https://www.edgepedia.org/news-uk)'s television channel TalkTV, with simulcast distribution on FOX Nation in the United States and Sky News Australia[1](https://press.foxnews.com/2022/03/piers-morgan-global-show-is-uncensored) • [2](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/talktv-how-watch-piers-morgan-uncensored-show-donald-trump-tyson-fury-b996108.html). News UK Broadcasting unveiled the name and brand identity in March 2022 as its new global flagship show with Morgan, airing on weeknights[1](https://press.foxnews.com/2022/03/piers-morgan-global-show-is-uncensored). In early 2024 Morgan moved the show to an online-only format on YouTube, which he described as escaping the "unnecessary straitjacket" of TV schedules[3](https://www.thewrap.com/piers-morgan-uncensored-on-trump-biden-cnn-markle-prince-harry/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Launch | 25 April 2022, 8pm, on TalkTV[2](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/talktv-how-watch-piers-morgan-uncensored-show-donald-trump-tyson-fury-b996108.html) |
| Distribution at launch | Weeknights on TalkTV (UK), FOX Nation (US), Sky News Australia[1](https://press.foxnews.com/2022/03/piers-morgan-global-show-is-uncensored) |
| Debut interview | Donald Trump, recorded at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach[4](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump) |
| Format shift | Moved online-only to YouTube in early 2024; 4 million subscribers reported[3](https://www.thewrap.com/piers-morgan-uncensored-on-trump-biden-cnn-markle-prince-harry/) |
| Notable complaint | 7 September 2022 episode drew 130 Ofcom complaints, assessed and not pursued[5](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/foi/2023/january/complaints-piers-morgan-uncensored-talktv.pdf) |
| Spin-offs | The Royals Uncensored and World Cup Uncensored, launched on YouTube and picked up by broadcaster 5[6](https://www.viacomcbs-mediahub.co.uk/press-releases/two-new-piers-morgan-uncensored-spin-offs-find-a-linear-home-on-5) |
| Regulation | Remained subject to Ofcom's Broadcasting Code while on TalkTV[4](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
#### 2022: The launch and the Trump coup
The story begins on April 25, 2022, the launch night of TalkTV itself, with Morgan as the network's flagship. He opens with the monologue: a mock trigger warning for "woke snowflakes," Churchill on free speech, a jab at Meghan Markle, and a promise that this show will say what other outlets will not. Then comes the reason anyone tuned in: the first half of his interview with Donald Trump, recorded at [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.edgepedia.org/mar-a-lago) in Palm Beach and introduced by Morgan as "the most famous and divisive man in the world". The debut draws an average of 317,000 overnight viewers, peaking near 400,000, more than all other UK news channels combined in that slot.[17](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61221177) • [18](https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/piers-morgan-uncensored-seen-by-more-uk-viewers-than-all-other-news-channels-combined/) • [19](https://deadline.com/2022/04/uk-ratings-piers-morgan-uncensored-donald-trump-interview-watched-by-300000-beats-bbc-news-sky-news-gb-news-at-8pm-1235009876/)
**The Trump interview is the show's first and most remembered set piece, and its staging is the point.** Morgan flies to Florida, sits opposite Trump in his own gilded territory, and the two men, old sparring partners with genuine mutual need, go at each other with what reviewers called "exhibition match" energy: Trump insisting the election was stolen, Morgan pressing him on whether he accepts the result, Trump reportedly walking out when challenged, and Morgan selling the friction as proof of his uncensored credentials. The catch is how the show presents it: rather than trusting the conversation to flow, the producers cut it into fillets across two episodes, with Morgan's before-and-after commentary sandwiching each segment. Critics found the chopping made the interview feel longer and thinner than its headline value, but the clips traveled: News UK claimed over 64 million online views for the first week's content alone, which also featured [Tyson Fury](https://www.edgepedia.org/tyson-fury), Sharon Osbourne, and [Caitlyn Jenner](https://www.edgepedia.org/caitlyn-jenner).[20](https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/piers-morgan-uncensored-delivers-64-million-global-views-to-date/) • [21](https://ie.nda.news/piers-morgan-trump-interv-st_391999/news/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-sn_3441450)
The show settles into a weeknight rhythm: an opening monologue on the day's culture-war story, a big-name or big-argument interview, and a panel segment, recorded first in Ealing and later from the News Building at [London Bridge](https://www.edgepedia.org/london-bridge). Guests in the first months run from politicians to celebrities to provocateurs, with Morgan positioning every booking as a test of free speech. One May 2022 episode supplies the show's most viral early moment when a trans rights activist swears at Morgan live on air, an exchange that circulates far more widely than the episode's ratings would suggest.[22](https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-low-ratings-trump.html)
#### 2022 to 2024: The ratings slide and the YouTube pivot
The numbers tell the middle of the story. Within weeks the show averages around 62,000 viewers a night in its peak-time slot, with some airings registering as zero on one audience research board, a fall from launch of more than 80 percent. Slate's review calls the show "boring" and "empty punditry," arguing the format needs no research and no reporting, only a host and a camera.[22](https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-low-ratings-trump.html) Morgan keeps booking, and the show's second great viral set piece arrives in late 2022: a world-exclusive, multi-part interview with Ye, formerly [Kanye West](https://www.edgepedia.org/kanye-west), in which Ye apologizes on camera for tweeting "I'm going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE," saying he is sorry for the hurt and confusion it caused. The clip becomes one of the channel's most-watched and defines the show's second act: less a nightly broadcast than a machine for producing headline-grabbing interview moments.[23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWFzoAxQvg)
Ratings on linear TV stabilize around 120,000 viewers, respectable for a news channel but far from the launch. On February 8, 2024, Morgan declares linear television an "unnecessary straitjacket" and quits the nightly TalkTV slot, taking the show wholly to YouTube as a daily interview and debate brand. The gamble pays off online: the channel's catalog climbs past 1.3 billion views and 4.34 million subscribers, with spin-offs later finding a home on Channel 5.[24](https://www.theviewersguide.com/tvreference/piers-morgan-uncensored-200569) • [25](https://paramount-mediahub.co.uk/press-releases/two-new-piers-morgan-uncensored-spin-offs-find-a-linear-home-on-5)
### Characters
**Piers Morgan (himself)** is the show's entire engine: former tabloid editor, CNN anchor, and [Good Morning Britain](https://www.edgepedia.org/good-morning-britain) co-host who famously stormed off that set in 2021. Here he plays the free-speech crusader, alternating between genuine interviewing skill, tabloid needling, and the monologuist persona critics compare unfavorably to [Jeremy Clarkson](https://www.edgepedia.org/jeremy-clarkson).
**Donald Trump (himself)** is the launch's coup and recurring foil, interviewed at Mar-a-Lago in a combative exchange that set the show's tone and its ratings high-water mark.
**Ye, formerly Kanye West (himself)** delivers the show's most consequential moment, an on-camera apology for an antisemitic tweet that made global news.
**The guests** rotate nightly: Tyson Fury, Sharon Osbourne, Caitlyn Jenner, politicians, activists, and culture-war figures, with the booking policy openly favoring people other outlets avoid.
### Interpretations and controversies
The central controversy is whether "uncensored" means anything. Critics from The Guardian, The Independent, and Slate argued the show was long on provocation and short on journalism, with Slate calling it "empty punditry" requiring no research or reporting. The launch monologue, with its Churchill quotation and Meghan Markle swipe, was widely mocked, and The Independent derided the production's graphics as unfit for 2022. The show also became a case study in the gap between clip virality and actual audiences: 64 million online views in week one against 62,000 nightly linear viewers a month later.
### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations
Two spin-offs later found a linear home on Channel 5, and the show's back catalog of interviews circulates as standalone clips and podcast episodes, which is where most of its audience now lives.
## Launch and distribution
The program was announced in March 2022, when News UK Broadcasting unveiled "Piers Morgan Uncensored" as the name and brand identity of its new global flagship show, to launch later that spring[1](https://press.foxnews.com/2022/03/piers-morgan-global-show-is-uncensored). It went on air on 25 April 2022 at 8pm on TalkTV, the new television channel from News UK[2](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/talktv-how-watch-piers-morgan-uncensored-show-donald-trump-tyson-fury-b996108.html). Distribution was international from the start: weeknights on TalkTV in the UK, on the streaming service FOX Nation in the United States, and on Sky News Australia[1](https://press.foxnews.com/2022/03/piers-morgan-global-show-is-uncensored).
The launch followed Morgan's departure from ITV's Good Morning Britain in 2021, after which Ofcom rejected a record number of complaints about his comments on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with [Oprah Winfrey](https://www.edgepedia.org/oprah-winfrey), ruling in a 97-page decision that he was entitled to express strong views scrutinizing their allegations[7](https://merlin.obs.coe.int/article/9295). On 15 September 2021 it was reported that he would join a [Rupert Murdoch](https://www.edgepedia.org/rupert-murdoch)-owned network as host of a new show planned to air in the US, UK, and Australia[7](https://merlin.obs.coe.int/article/9295).
## The debut and the Trump interview
The opening episode centered on an interview with Donald Trump, recorded at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in [Palm Beach, Florida](https://www.edgepedia.org/palm-beach-florida)[4](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump). Promotional material appeared to show Trump storming out of the interview[4](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump). According to a later GQ profile, Trump was unhappy with the interview after Morgan pushed him on false claims that the 2020 election was "stolen"[8](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/piers-morgan-interview-2024).
The Guardian's launch-day review noted that despite the "uncensored" branding, Morgan remained subject to Ofcom regulation on TalkTV, as did the rival newcomer [GB News](https://www.edgepedia.org/gb-news), so claims of saying the unsayable were, in the reviewer's words, marketing bravado[4](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump).
## Format and style
The show blends high-profile interviews, debates, and cultural commentary in what Apple TV's listing describes as an unapologetically direct format[9](https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/piers-morgan-uncensored/umc.cmc.41g7mpakyu7dio1fjlvdbiez9). Unconstrained by traditional news programming, the GQ profile observed, Uncensored has let Morgan indulge his tabloid instincts, including stunts such as interviewing a vegan activist while eating a steak on air[8](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/piers-morgan-interview-2024).
Guests have ranged widely. The YouTube channel's full interview with rapper and actor Ice Cube, published in July 2023, covered cancel culture, modern American racism, Kanye West, artificial intelligence in the music industry, and the 2024 US elections[10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwC9LVlMNQ). Morgan also interviewed [Andrew Tate](https://www.edgepedia.org/andrew-tate) on the program prior to Tate's arrest in Romania in 2022, repeatedly challenging him during the conversation[11](https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/128448/pdf/). After an earlier on-air exchange with Egyptian-American comedian [Bassem Youssef](https://www.edgepedia.org/bassem-youssef), Morgan flew to the US to film a near two-hour follow-up interview in which the two traded barbs and discussed the Middle East conflict[8](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/piers-morgan-interview-2024). The show has also carried a dedicated interview special with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, listed by Apple TV as *Piers and Zelenskyy Uncensored: Never Surrender*, in which Ukraine's president delivers what the listing calls a defiant message[9](https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/piers-morgan-uncensored/umc.cmc.41g7mpakyu7dio1fjlvdbiez9).
## Regulation and complaints
While broadcast on TalkTV, the program fell under Ofcom's Broadcasting Code. The 7 September 2022 edition, in which Morgan hosted climate activist Orla Coghlan of Animal Rebellion and ate a burger in front of her, attracted 130 complaints under the "generally accepted standards" issue; viewers objected to the presenter's treatment of Coghlan during an interview about the group's protest in front of Parliament. Ofcom assessed the complaints and did not pursue them[5](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/foi/2023/january/complaints-piers-morgan-uncensored-talktv.pdf). Ofcom's later climate-content complaints log records the same episode with 7 complaints listed as not pursued[12](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/foi/2025/july/annex-a---complaints-and-internal-assessments-regarding-climate-related-broadcast-content.pdf?v=400464).
Morgan himself argued against the regulatory framework. At a September 2023 media conference he called British television impartiality rules anachronistic, saying television news was "massively regulated" in the UK, as the regulator struggled with channels such as GB News and TalkTV pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable[13](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/21/piers-morgan-tv-news-impartiality-rules-out-of-date). At the same event he argued "I don't think there's real impartiality"[14](https://rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/oct_2023.pdf).
The "uncensored" label has limits. When Jaguar Wright made allegations about Jay-Z and Beyoncé on the show, parts of the interview were removed after legal pressure from Jay-Z's team, whose lawyers called the statements "totally false" and "without basis in fact". Morgan justified the edits by saying, "There are legal limits, even for a show called 'Uncensored'"[15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8R8aD2PnYo).
## Move to YouTube and spin-offs
In early 2024 Morgan took the show online-only on YouTube, saying this freed him from what he called the "unnecessary straitjacket" of TV schedules[3](https://www.thewrap.com/piers-morgan-uncensored-on-trump-biden-cnn-markle-prince-harry/). The channel became one of the biggest politics and culture-focused programs on the platform since launching there, reaching 4 million subscribers[3](https://www.thewrap.com/piers-morgan-uncensored-on-trump-biden-cnn-markle-prince-harry/). A 2024 digital news report described Morgan as a former CNN, ITV, and TalkTV host who took his eponymous show online-only[16](https://www.mediaguru.cz/media/2mblvgxg/digital-news-report-2024-final-lo-res-compressed.pdf).
The YouTube business has expanded into spin-offs. Two new shows from Morgan's digital media business, The Royals Uncensored and World Cup Uncensored, launched on YouTube and were picked up weeks later by the broadcaster 5 for linear transmission. World Cup Uncensored sees Morgan partner with former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan, featuring former England captain John Terry and other guests[6](https://www.viacomcbs-mediahub.co.uk/press-releases/two-new-piers-morgan-uncensored-spin-offs-find-a-linear-home-on-5).
## Reception
Critical response to the broadcast version was mixed. The Guardian's review of the first episode called it "a bad Jeremy Clarkson tribute act ... with added Trump", while noting that Morgan's six years on Good Morning Britain had genuinely transformed breakfast television and suggesting he might work best in a double act[4](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump). The GQ profile was more measured about the online incarnation, describing the Youssef interview as a rowdy, nuanced, and genuinely human take on the Middle East conflict that felt absent from the polarized echo chamber of social media, while also criticizing Morgan for dedicating two episodes to a widely reported story about British schoolchildren identifying as cats despite little evidence and similar US reports being identified as hoaxes[8](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/piers-morgan-interview-2024).
## References
1. [Piers Morgan's global show is Uncensored, Fox News Media press release](https://press.foxnews.com/2022/03/piers-morgan-global-show-is-uncensored)
2. [TalkTV: How to watch Piers Morgan's new Uncensored show, The Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/talktv-how-watch-piers-morgan-uncensored-show-donald-trump-tyson-fury-b996108.html)
3. [No Filter: Piers Morgan Sounds Off on Trump, Biden, CNN's 'Sneering', and Meghan Markle, TheWrap](https://www.thewrap.com/piers-morgan-uncensored-on-trump-biden-cnn-markle-prince-harry/)
4. [Piers Morgan Uncensored review – a bad Jeremy Clarkson tribute act … with added Trump, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-trump)
5. [Freedom of Information response: complaints about Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV, Ofcom](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/foi/2023/january/complaints-piers-morgan-uncensored-talktv.pdf)
6. [Two new Piers Morgan Uncensored spin-offs find a linear home on 5, Paramount press release](https://www.viacomcbs-mediahub.co.uk/press-releases/two-new-piers-morgan-uncensored-spin-offs-find-a-linear-home-on-5)
7. [IRIS Merlin article on the Ofcom ruling regarding Piers Morgan's Good Morning Britain comments](https://merlin.obs.coe.int/article/9295)
8. [Has Piers Morgan figured out the future of TV news?, British GQ](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/piers-morgan-interview-2024)
9. [Piers Morgan Uncensored, Apple TV listing](https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/piers-morgan-uncensored/umc.cmc.41g7mpakyu7dio1fjlvdbiez9)
10. [Piers Morgan vs Ice Cube | The Full Interview, Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwC9LVlMNQ)
11. [Written evidence to a UK parliamentary committee citing the Andrew Tate interview](https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/128448/pdf/)
12. [Annex A: Complaints and internal assessments regarding climate-related broadcast content, Ofcom](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/foi/2025/july/annex-a---complaints-and-internal-assessments-regarding-climate-related-broadcast-content.pdf?v=400464)
13. [Piers Morgan says 'due impartiality' rules for British TV out of date, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/21/piers-morgan-tv-news-impartiality-rules-out-of-date)
14. [RTS Cambridge 2023 convention transcript](https://rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/oct_2023.pdf)
15. [Behind the Scenes: The Unedited Piers Morgan "Uncensored" Interview with Jaguar Wright, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8R8aD2PnYo)
16. [Digital News Report 2024, United Kingdom chapter](https://www.mediaguru.cz/media/2mblvgxg/digital-news-report-2024-final-lo-res-compressed.pdf)
17. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61221177](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61221177)
18. [https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/piers-morgan-uncensored-seen-by-more-uk-viewers-than-all-other-news-channels-combined/](https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/piers-morgan-uncensored-seen-by-more-uk-viewers-than-all-other-news-channels-combined/)
19. [https://deadline.com/2022/04/uk-ratings-piers-morgan-uncensored-donald-trump-interview-watched-by-300000-beats-bbc-news-sky-news-gb-news-at-8pm-1235009876/](https://deadline.com/2022/04/uk-ratings-piers-morgan-uncensored-donald-trump-interview-watched-by-300000-beats-bbc-news-sky-news-gb-news-at-8pm-1235009876/)
20. [https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/piers-morgan-uncensored-delivers-64-million-global-views-to-date/](https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/piers-morgan-uncensored-delivers-64-million-global-views-to-date/)
21. [https://ie.nda.news/piers-morgan-trump-interv-st_391999/news/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-sn_3441450](https://ie.nda.news/piers-morgan-trump-interv-st_391999/news/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-a-bad-jeremy-clarkson-tribute-act-with-added-sn_3441450)
22. [https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-low-ratings-trump.html](https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/piers-morgan-uncensored-review-low-ratings-trump.html)
23. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWFzoAxQvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWFzoAxQvg)
24. [https://www.theviewersguide.com/tvreference/piers-morgan-uncensored-200569](https://www.theviewersguide.com/tvreference/piers-morgan-uncensored-200569)
25. [https://paramount-mediahub.co.uk/press-releases/two-new-piers-morgan-uncensored-spin-offs-find-a-linear-home-on-5](https://paramount-mediahub.co.uk/press-releases/two-new-piers-morgan-uncensored-spin-offs-find-a-linear-home-on-5)
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