The Morning Show 

An inside look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.

Creators:

Jay Carson, Kerry Ehrin

Stars:

Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Desean Terry

Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Jennifer Aniston	...	Alex Levy 11 episodes, 2019-2020
Reese Witherspoon	...	Bradley Jackson 11 episodes, 2019-2020
Desean Terry	...	Daniel Henderson 11 episodes, 2019-2020
Billy Crudup	...	Cory Ellison 10 episodes, 2019
Mark Duplass	...	Chip Black 10 episodes, 2019
Gugu Mbatha-Raw	...	Hannah Shoenfeld 10 episodes, 2019
Nestor Carbonell	...	Yanko Flores 10 episodes, 2019
Karen Pittman	...	Mia Jordan 10 episodes, 2019
Bel Powley	...	Claire Conway 10 episodes, 2019
Jack Davenport	...	Jason Craig 10 episodes, 2019
Steve Carell	...	Mitch Kessler 10 episodes, 2019
Tom Irwin	...	Fred 10 episodes, 2019
Victoria Tate	...	Rena 10 episodes, 2019
Janina Gavankar	...	Alison Namazi 10 episodes, 2019-2020
Shari Belafonte	...	Julia 9 episodes, 2019
Katherine Ko	...	Dhillon 9 episodes, 2019
Joe Marinelli	...	Donny 9 episodes, 2019
Ian Gomez	...	Greg 8 episodes, 2019
Augustus Prew	...	Sean 8 episodes, 2019
Amber Friendly	...	Layla 8 episodes, 2019
Eli Bildner	...	Joel 8 episodes, 2019
Hannah Leder	...	Isabella 7 episodes, 2019
Joe Pacheco	...	Bart 7 episodes, 2019-2020
Marcia Gay Harden	...	Maggie 6 episodes, 2019
Andrea Bendewald	...	Valerie 6 episodes, 2019
David Magidoff	...	Nicky 6 episodes, 2019
Michelle Meredith	...	Lindsey 6 episodes, 2019
Oona Roche	...	Lizzy 6 episodes, 2019-2020
Kate Vernon	...	Geneva 5 episodes, 2019

Storyline

After a fallout with their previous morning show co-host, the popular but #MeToo-scandal-ridden Mitch Kessler, a New York City TV station hires a new spunky journalist, the progressive and hotheaded southern girl Bradley Jackson, as the new co-host. The scheming station head manager Cory Ellison sees in her the chance to push his career further. The show's other popular co-host Alex Levy, disgruntled by the fact that she has to take in a newbie, tries to use this new situation to make her own power move and turn Bradley into an ally. Meanwhile, Mitch refuses to accept defeat and tries to take everyone in the station who knew about his sexual abuse scandal but said nothing down with him. Other characters include Chip Black, the show's cynical top producer and program organizer, Hannah Shoenfeld, the station's employee and Mitch's emotionally gutted silent victim, Yanko Flores, a romantic and the Morning Show's most popular reporter, Claire Conway, a British junior employee of the ...

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Plot Keywords:

journalist | metoo | forced sex | sexual predator | female journalist | 

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Taglines:

The news is only half the story.

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 November 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Morning Show

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Media Res, Echo Films, Hello Sunshine

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the second time Reese Witherspoon and Gugu Mbatha-Raw have worked together. They first worked together on A Wrinkle in Time (2018).

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Quotes

Hannah Shoenfeld: We're The Morning Show. We can do anything.

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Connections

Referenced in Good Morning Britain: Episode dated 4 November 2019 (2019)

User Reviews

Great show

One of the weirdest critic I saw was that the show is left wing propaganda. Well this is on the opposite a very balanced show, that gives a voice to the men perspective on MeToo and criticises it very harshly while the main hero is a moderate conservative. This is why the show is good - you get different perspective and ideas.