Piers Morgan Preps Boozy, Sex-Filled Tabloid Drama for Starz

Piers Morgan Preps Boozy, Sex-Filled Tabloid Drama for Starz

Piers Morgan is bringing his reverse Midas touch to Starz.

The liberal host of CNN’s low-rated Piers Morgan Tonight is teaming up with the pay channel to revisit the dawn of the tabloid journalism era

The cable network home to DaVinci’s Demons and the upcoming Black Sails is developing a period drama about tabloid journalism with CNN’s Piers Morgan — a former tabloid editor of The Sun, News of the World and Daily Mirror — attached to executive produce.

Fleet Street is set in England in the 1970s and will chronicle the rise of tabloid journalism, the sexual revolution and class warfare — told through the eyes of an American journalist.

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