Rupert Murdoch has made countless shrewd media investments during his long lifetime, but pouring millions into Piers Morgan’s television career was not one of them.

Piers Morgan Uncensored was conceived as the flagship show for Murdoch’s TalkTV enterprise in 2022, boasting an exclusive interview with Donald Trump. When the television project was canned last year and made online-only, it had cost a reported £90m (much of that Piers’s salary).

This January, Morgan announced that he bought the Uncensored brand from News UK and would turn the YouTube channel into his own “standalone business”.

Now he is back on UK television after cutting a deal with Channel 5 to screen a 90-minute Friday night show of the week’s Uncensored highlights. It means........

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