Over 2.1 million tuned in to watch Piers Morgan interview Oprah Winfrey on his CNN debut two weeks ago.
But the British talk show host saw his ratings plummet over 75 per cent from his debut when he interviewed Kim and Kourtney Kardashian on Thursday night.
Rather embarrassingly, it appears more American viewers preferred to watch a behind-the-scenes documentary about supermarkets on a rival cable channel than the reality TV stars giving away yet more information about their private lives.
Just 498,000 tuned in to watch the Kardashians discuss their breasts and Kim’s infamous sex tape during the 9pm slot – with conservative talk show host Sean Hannity pulling in 1.87 million on Fox.
In second place was the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC with 983,000 and Supermarkets Inc with 504,000 on CNBC.
The ratings slip suggests the average CNN viewer isn’t interested in reality stars like the Kardashians, whose new TV show Kourtney And Kim Take New York attracted 3million viewers to the celebrity-centric cable channel E!
The drop has been noted by some U.S. TV critics, TV presenter Carol Vorderman and Lord Alan Sugar.
Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin wrote: ‘Morgan dropped below half a million viewers Thursday night even with a bunch of crazed half-naked Kardashians sitting at the desk with him. Really. You can’t break the half-million mark with Hollywood’s most beloved trollops bragging about their boobs?
‘(The scoop from Kim: “They’re 100 per cent real!” Kourtney, not so much.) And their sex tapes? (Poor Kim says she’s embarrassed by hers, though not embarrassed enough to stop talking about it on national television.’
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