Deadline writes that Apple TV is releasing a fifth season of The Morning Show as well as a new host. A young rising actress-singer, Reneé Rapp (Mean Girls: The Musical, Mean Girls) joins the UBN news on her own terms.
According to Deadline, Rapp’s claim to fame as up to date are with HBO Max’s The Sex Lives Of College Girls as well as reprising her role in the Broadway rendition of Mean Girls. She left Sex in the city season two to go back to focus on her music and has done so ever since. In doing so, she toured and made two new albums, however, no one thought she would return to her acting career. Rapp was recently announced as a host for the newest season of the The Morning Show breaking her music career streak and flipping back to going back to acting.
Deadline notes that other than Rapp being a host, there is also Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies, Cruel Intentions), Jennifer Aniston (Just Go with It, We’re the Millers), 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 & Neighbours) that all are confirmed hosts joining Rapp for season five. The Morning Show is produced and show ran by 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.
Rapp’s agent is WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.