Episode 105 - The Morning Show (Season 2 Debut!!!)

On tonight's #talkintv episode, we discuss the return of one of the breakout shows from 2019, The Morning Show! An American drama streaming television series starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell, that premiered on Apple TV+ on November 1, 2019. The series is inspired by Brian Stelter's book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV. The first season follows Aniston's Alex Levy, who anchors The Morning Show, a popular breakfast news program broadcast from Manhattan on the UBA network, which has excellent viewership ratings and is perceived to have changed the face of American television. After her on-air partner of 15 years, Mitch Kessler (Carell), is fired amidst a sexual misconduct scandal, Alex fights to retain her job as top news anchor while sparking a rivalry with Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon), a haphazard field reporter whose series of impulsive decisions brings her into a new world of television journalism. It ends up spiraling into a giant conspiracy that involves a decades long cover up of abuse and sexual misconduct, which also drags in executive producer Charlie "Chip" Black (Mark Duplass), while studio executive Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) sees an opportunity for advancement, with plans to take the Morning Show into the 21st Century. Season 2 picks up after Alex & Bradley expose the cover up live on air, and follows the lives of all the UBA workers in the aftermath. Dom & Chris discuss the Season 2 premiere, how it relates to Season 1, how some of the faults of Season 1 may be rectified, and where this show's place in the zeitgeist of streaming is, as Apple has all the money in the world to throw around to a show like this. It's all covered here on the #talkintvpodcast