Piers Morgan to Guest Host 'DailyMailTV'

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Piers Morgan is guest-hostingCBS Television Distribution’s DailyMailTV from New York on Thursday and Friday with host Jesse Palmer out on assignment.

Morgan, who previously hosted primetime series Piers Morgan Live on CNN, has served as an editor-at-large for DailyMail.com from London since September 2014, contributing weekly columns. DailyMail.com boasts more than 240 million unique monthly users, with 80 million of those coming from the US.

Palmer will return on Monday, Nov. 19, leading into the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Morgan currently hosts Good Morning Britain for ITV and is the presenter of two primetime crime series, Killer Women with Piers Morgan and Serial Killer with Piers Morgan, where he meets and interviews some of America’s most dangerous criminals. These shows have aired in more than 70 countries including the United States.

In its second year in syndication, DailyMailTV is averaging a 1.0 live plus current household rating, according to Nielsen Media Research, and a 0.5 among daytime’s key demographic of women 25-54, both of which are even compared to last year.

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DailyMailTV is overseen by executive producers Martin Clarke, publisher of DailyMail.com, as well as Carla Pennington and Dr. Phil and Jay McGraw of Stage 29 Productions.

Jeffrey Wilson is the executive producer based in New York at the studios of Tribune’s WPIX. Eric Beesemyer and Andrea D'Ambrosio are co-executive producers.

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Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.