CNN will cancel low-rated 9 pm 'Piers Morgan Live'

"Piers Morgan Live" has sunk to some of its lowest-ever ratings recently, just as CNN boss Jeff Zucker is under relentless pressure to turn around the struggling cable news network. CNN is often a distant No. 3 behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC.

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On Sunday, CNN confirmed that "Piers Morgan Live" will be ending next month, proving that a large Twitter following and pedigree of minor non-journalistic celebrity (though a former editor, Morgan, 48, was mostly known as a judge on "Britain's" and

RELATED: PIERS MORGAN INTERVIEWED BY BRITISH COPS IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO PHONE HACKING. "Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there's no doubt there 

Piers Morgan believes he shot himself in the foot by crusading for gun control, with his CNN show as the final casualty. But the self-inflicted damage was far deeper than that. The British journalist undoubtedly alienated many in the audience (and