While it’s true that CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” is averaging close to what “Larry King Live” averaged in January 2010, that’s more to do — at least so far — with the show’s strong opening-night numbers than any consistently solid viewership numbers.

Morgan’s first show, in which he interviewed Oprah Winfrey on Jan. 17, averaged nearly 2.1 million viewers — a number that’s dropped steadily ever since, hitting a low of 479,000 viewers on Jan. 22 (which was, to be fair, a Saturday).

Actually, Morgan’s numbers have been all over the map. The night after pulling in only 498,000 viewers last Thursday, for example, he snared nearly 660,000 viewers the next night. While he’s broken the million-viewer mark four times since his premiere (his first four nights on the air), he’s yo-yo-ed up and down ever since.

To date, through last Friday, Morgan is averaging 972,000 viewers (excluding weekend shows). That’s certainly better than the roughly 600,000 that “Larry King Live” was pulling in the fourth quarter and nearly on par with what King averaged a year ago.

Hallmark Movie Channel has absolutely nothing to do with Piers Morgan or CNN, but I wanted to note that its original movie, “Goodnight For Justice” — starring Luke Perry and directed by his former “90210” buddy Jason Priestley — averaged 1.3 million viewers last Saturday night, a new network viewership record.

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Reality: “American Idol” judge Steven Tyler is now on Twitter and is tweeting away under the screen name “IamStevenT.” Oh yeah — he also still has that other job as the lead singer of Aerosmith.

Meanwhile, over on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” cast member Lawrence Washington, aka “Miss Lawrence,” has released his debut single, “Closet Freak,” which was co-written by Grammy-award-winning writer/producer Kandi Burruss — who also happens to one of his Washington’s fellow “Real Housewives” colleagues.

“Closet Freak” debuted in the Top-Ten on iTunes; like Steven Tyler, Washington is also tweeting (“lawrenceatl”).

And reality veteran “American Chopper,” pulled in its best numbers in over six years Monday night at 9, with “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior,” snaring nearly 3.2 million viewers. The season finale airs Monday night.

Last, but not least:

* Matt Czuchry (“The Good Wife”) doing dapper in a custom-made Joseph Abboud suit at Sunday’s SAG Awards in LA (designed for him by creative director Bernardo Rojo) . . . The fifth installment of Univision’s reality competition “Nuestra Belleza Latina” (“Our Latin Beauty“) holds New York auditions this Saturday at The New Yorker Hotel (481 8th Ave.) from 7 a.m. to noon . . . Disney Channel finished January as TV’s top-rated network, in total day, for the ninth consecutive month in tweens 9-14 . . . Memo to the Frank’s RedHot people: The “I put that (bleep) on everything” tagline was funny maybe the first time on those radio ads — now it’s just annoying. Shut up already.