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Warning: The following interview contains spoilers about The Morning Show’s season 2 finale episode “Fever” Season one of AppleTV+’s The Morning Show ended arguably with Covid, and so does season 2. Jennifer Aniston’s anchor Alex Levy literally goes on air as she battles the virus, for what is a cathartic monologue…

Shelley Zimmerman, who just exited Awesomeness after five years, has been named President of Television for Kerry Ehrin's Bad Attitude Entertainment as part of Ehrin’s overall deal at Apple TV+. She will shepherd development and produce new projects for the company, including those Ehrin will create and write, and…

In The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup's devil. Aniston's Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she's floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she's forced to…

When Apple TV+ launched its flagship series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, it didn’t exactly knock critics off its feet with a 61% Rotten Tomatoes score. Compare that to the first season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, another Witherspoon-produced zeitgeist series about…

Loosely based on Brian Stelter's nonfiction book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, The Morning Show proved a big hit for the newly launched Apple TV +, with a stellar cast including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. In its first season, the show jumped straight in at the…

During a panel titled “Showrunner Superpanel: where do we go from here” at the virtual edition of the BANFF World Media Festival, a roster of some of the top shows on television talked about their journeys to Hollywood. Steven Canals (Pose), Tanya Saracho (Vida), Anna Winger (Unorthodox), Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Eve…

Kerry Ehrin, executive producer and showrunner of Apple’s flagship original series The Morning Show, has signed a multi-year overall deal extension with the company. Under the new pact, Ehrin will develop TV projects exclusively for Apple TV+. The Bates Motel alumna was the first writer with whom Apple signed an…

Apple is closing its first overall deal. In a competitive situation, the streaming service has landed Bates Motel co-creator/co-showrunner Kerry Ehrin. Under the exclusive multi-year pact, which is expected to begin as soon as Ehrin’s current overall deal at Universal TV ends later this spring, she will be…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Bates Motel series finale. Tonight, A&E’s Bates Motel wrapped up its five-season run with the episode “The Cord,” and when you think about it that’s quite a feat considering how others have tried and failed to expand the universe of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960…

As Bates Motel is wrapping its five-season run on A&E, the series’ executive producer Kerry Ehrin and star Freddie Highmore have reteamed for a new drama project. NBC has put in development Long Distance, from the Bates Motel duo, veteran producer and network executive Danielle Gelber and Universal TV. Written by…

Bates Motel star Freddie Highmore is making his writing debut, teaming with A&E drama’s co-creator/executive producer Kerry Ehrin for a romantic comedy series project. The untitled half-hour, which the two conceived while attending the Critics Choice Awards together for Bates Motel (this is them attending the event in…

The breakthrough season for broadcast networks’ in-house production arms selling to rival nets continues with another green light for such a project. CBS has given a pilot order to untitled drama project from Bates Motel writer Nikki Toscano and the A&E/Universal TV series’ executive producer Kerry Ehrin. It hails…