Deadline writes that Apple TV is releasing a fifth season of The Morning Show and will gain a new cast member. Young actress and singer, Reneé Rapp (Mean Girls: The Musical, Mean Girls), joins the UBN news team as Samantha, a rising star determined to make it on her own terms.
According to Deadline, Rapp’s claim to fame to date is with HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls as well as reprising her role in the film adaptation of Broadway’s Mean Girls. She left The Sex Lives of College Girls after season two to go back and focus on her music and has done so ever since. In doing so, she toured and made two new albums.
Deadline writes that the series tells a story of a modern morning news show that has suffered from a chaotic fallout involving a top anchor who was fired for sexual misconduct. In season four, a UBA-NBN merger had come to completion, forcing the newsroom to come to terms with its newfound responsibility, hidden motives, and the elusive nature of a polarized America.
Deadline notes that Rapp joins show leads Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies, Cruel Intentions) and Jennifer Aniston (Just Go with It, We’re the Millers), and new season additions Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, 101 Dalmatians) and Jesse Williams (Hotel Costiera, Grey’s Anatomy). Other cast members are Billy Crudup (Almost Famous, Jay Kelly), Mark Duplass (The Creep Tapes, Good American Family), Nestor Carbonell (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, The Rip), Karen Pittman (And Just Like That, What We Do Next), Nicole Beharie (American Violet, Jacob’s Ladder) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Your Friends & Neighbors) . The Morning Show is produced and by showrunner Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland, Fosse/Verdon) and directed and produced by Mimi Leder (Woman With a Past, On The Basis of Sex). The show is run by the studio Media Res as well as Apple TV.
You can watch the first four seasons on Apple TV on demand.
Rapp’s agent is WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.