Rather watch a film ?

A belated January foray into the world of 9pm chat shows on US cable news tv. At the end of last year, Fox's Megyn Kelly seemed to have eased into the slot vacated by Sean Hannity - but now Rachel Maddow on MSNBC is beginning to eclipse her - as the chart below shows. The graph marks viewers in the 25 to 54 year-old demographic - and you can see that CNN only came close last week when Piers Morgan was replaced by a film about plane crash survivors.