Piers Morgan, the Britain's Got Talent judge and former newspaper editor, is about to sign a four-year contract to take over King's primetime show in the autumn.

His British chat show, Piers Morgan's Life Stories, has also impressed CNN executives. He had interviewed Gordon Brown in one of the shows.

The race to 1 million Twitter followers appears to be heating up - more so as CNN acquires extraordinarily popular CNNbrk Twitter account, which already boasts of more than 947,000 followers, and is on the increase!