Simply earlier than season 4 of The Morning Present goes reside, Apple TV+ has prolonged the present’s run.
The tech big’s streaming service has ordered a fifth season of the drama starring and govt produced by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as anchors at a fictional TV community. The pickup comes hours forward of The Morning Present’s fourth season premiere on Wednesday.
Showrunner Charlotte Stoudt and director/govt producer Mimi Leder are set to proceed in these roles in season 5.
“The Morning Present has been a standout from the very begin, debuting as one of many flagship sequence on Apple TV+. It’s been extremely rewarding to see it not solely entertain but in addition resonate with audiences worldwide,” mentioned Matt Cherniss, head of programming at Apple TV+. “Because of the excellent forged and artistic workforce — led by Jennifer, Reese, Charlotte and Mimi — The Morning Present continues to ship addictively entertaining and provocative tales that we’ve all come to like. We’re excited for viewers to expertise the following chapter of this Emmy-winning drama.”
Season 4 is about in early 2024, however Stoudt and Leder mentioned on the present’s crimson carpet premiere final week that it gained’t function the presidential election as a central story line, with Stoudt noting that many of the season takes place earlier than Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid in July. “We attempt to go at it sideways,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “We don’t actually have, straight, an election story, however we do contact on the concept of: Why have been two older white males working for president?”
Together with Aniston and Witherspoon, season 4’s returning forged inlcudes Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Greta Lee, Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm, alongside new additions Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Boyd Holbrook, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons.
“It’s an honor to witness the collective expertise, ardour and dedication of Jen, Reese, Mimi, Charlotte, our companions at Howdy Sunshine and Echo Movies, and everybody concerned in The Morning Present, and we’re excited to embark on a brand new season that can give this forged and artistic workforce much more room to shine,” mentioned Michael Ellenberg, CEO of studio MediaRes and an govt producer of the sequence. “We’re so grateful to Apple TV+ and the followers world wide who tune in each week, and are so excited for viewers to see this upcoming season and past.”
Stoudt and Leder govt produce The Morning Present with Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res; Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Howdy Sunshine; Aniston and Kristin Hahn for Echo Movies; and Zander Lehmann and Micah Schraft.