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Season 3 of “The Morning Show” marked a major sea change for the watercooler drama series — and it appears the Emmys have taken notice.

Following a high-profile showrunner swap in 2022, with Charlotte Stoudt taking the reins from cocreator Kerry Ehrin, who headed the first two seasons and took on a consultant role for its third, the Apple TV+ series came into its own as a rich, multifaceted issue drama that, while heavy on the soap, tackled of-the-moment politics impacting any viewer with a pulse and internet access. By and large leaving the #MeToo drama of Steve Carrell’s embattled morning news anchor Mitch Kessler in the rearview mirror of his fatal, Italian-countryside car crash, Season 3 amped up the interpersonal dramas of its deep-bench cast, led by EPs Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon; introduced a new Big Bad (and ill-advised love interest) in Jon Hamm’s media-minded tech billionaire Paul Marks; and even dramatized the Jan.

“Overnight!” That’s what Holland Taylor infamously shouted 25 years ago when she won her first career Emmy Award in Best Drama Supporting Actress for her guest-starring role as judge Roberta Kittleson on “The Practice.” (Watch the Emmy flashback video below.)

Can the esteemed actress now claim an Emmy bookend for playing Uba board chair Cybil Reynolds on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show”? She’s competing yet again in the Best Drama Supporting Actress race and, just like in 1999, she’s billed as a guest star as opposed to a series regular, so Emmy history could repeat itself.

Taylor has submitted the episode “White Noise” to Emmy judges for this 2024 contest, in which Cybil’s career hangs in the balance when one of her old racist emails resurfaces. Cybil agrees to a damage control interview on the A.M. news program with Black journalist Chris Hunter (Nicole Beharie), but it...

Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Holland Taylor is entering “The Morning Show” episode “White Noise” as her 2024 Emmy Award submission for Best Drama Supporting Actress. “White Noise” debuted on September 20, 2023, and is the third episode of the Apple TV+ drama’s third season.

In “White Noise,” Uba board chair Cybil Richards (Taylor) is thrown onto the hot seat when an old racist email she wrote resurfaces. In an attempt to salvage her legacy, Cybil agrees to an interview with Chris Hunter (fellow 2024 Emmy nominee Nicole Beharie) – but it goes so poorly that Cybil’s fate is ultimately sealed. The episode was written by Joshua Allen and directed by Thomas Carter.

Taylor is a nine-time Emmy Award nominee and won Best Drama Supporting Actress in 1999 for “The Practice.” For this 2024 contest, Taylor is competing against Christine Baranski (“The Gilded Age”), Beharie, Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”), Greta Lee (“The Morning Show...

Cybil Reynolds may have experienced an epic downfall in “The Morning Show’s” third season, but the woman who plays her can’t stop rising in our Emmy odds. After hovering right outside the Top 8 in February and for the majority of March, Holland Taylor recently vaulted into eighth place in our Best Drama Supporting Actress rankings. And if you haven’t added her to your own predictions yet, you might want to change that Asap.

Though “The Morning Show” is still in search of its first drama series nomination at the Emmys, it’s already proven to be a juggernaut in the acting categories. Across its first two seasons, the Apple TV Plus drama has scooped up a total of eight acting bids — five for Season 1 and three for Season 2 — and a win for Crudup in Best Drama Supporting Actor (2020).

With a ton of heavy-hitters ineligible this year — including...

My guest this week is Karen Pittman. She’s hit the headlines lately for her reported departure from the Max show And Just Like That…, and in this episode of 20 Questions on Deadline she explains why she won’t be back for Season 3.

Leaving the show was, Pittman said, purely due to a scheduling issue with her new upcoming Netflix series Forever and work on Season 4 of Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.

“There’s a lot of things that went into making that decision. In a perfect world I would have been able to come back and do it. We don’t live in a perfect world… I wish the girls good luck for Season 3. I’m going to be cheering them on. But I was disappointed that Nya wasn’t coming back, but I hope that she lives in the imagination of the audience, still walking around New York City.

After Nicole Beharie joined the third season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, as new anchor Chris Hunter, a pivotal moment in her quick preparation process happened while speaking to CBS Mornings’ Gayle King. Beharie says the veteran newscaster “told me a story about a moment when she felt like the world was on her shoulders and where her identity as a Black woman in this space was heavier than she would like it to be.”

After Beharie revealed some of her trepidation around being a tonal fit for the ensemble and stepping into what she describes as a “well-oiled machine” of a show, King — pointing to her experiences as an anchor — responded, “We don’t have time for that. You are the answer to many people’s dreams, and basically, no one’s really, truly interested in your plight, in a way.”

It’s advice that would help...

Exclusive: Amidst critical raves for her work on The Morning Show Season 3, actress Nicole Beharie has signed with Sugar23 for management.

One of the newest additions to Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning drama, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the cutthroat world of morning news at a time of dramatic cultural change, Beharie joined in September as Chris Hunter, an Olympic gold medalist who takes on the morning anchor position of Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson at the network Uba. When racist emails at her expense emerge, on the part of Uba board member Cybil Richards (Holland Taylor), Christina is put in the uncomfortable position of interviewing the offender on-air about the messages, and how they reflect on the organization.

Beharie joined Jon Hamm, Stephen Fry, and Tig Notaro in coming aboard the series, which was renewed for a fourth season before its third debuted.

Beharie previously won a Gotham Award as...

[This story contains spoilers from The Morning Show season three, episode seven, “Strict Scrutiny.”]

Much of The Morning Show‘s seventh episode centers around network news host Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) joining her boss Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) on a tense visit to his mother’s house outside of the city. Cory’s mother, played by Lindsay Duncan, is a firebrand in her own right, and Cory pays her a rare personal visit in hopes of curbing her political influence with the DOJ to his advantage amid the potential sale of their network, Uba, to billionaire tech titan Paul Marks (Jon Hamm).

“It was a proud moment for women everywhere when you told the world on live TV that you had an abortion,” Martha Ellison (Duncan) tells Bradley. And the compliment is twofold for the Apple series audience: It’s a reminder that Bradley is a pioneer for women’s rights — she fearlessly ignited a...

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The latest episode of “The Morning Show” packed a topical conversation about systemic racism in media into one of its classic showdowns. In the aftermath of a companywide data leak, the Apple TV+ drama saw Uba Board President Cybil Richards (Holland Taylor) and “Morning Show” anchor Christina Hunter (Nicole Beharie) go on air together to discuss disparaging comments the media executive made during the former Olympian’s hiring process in a now-public email.

Executive producer Mimi Leder — who directed the first two episodes, the sixth and the finale of the most recent season — said Season 3 examines the layers of racism, ageism and politics impacting the legacy media business through Uba’s struggles. These pressure points reach a peak when the value of diversity in the Uba newsroom and network come into question following the cyber attack into the system in Episode 3.

“We introduced a new character, Chris Hunter. She’s an Olympic gold medalist.

We’re halfway through September, which means the most entertaining show on TV is back: Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show.”

The Emmy-winning drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon returned this week for its 10-episode third season, which picks up two years after the events of the Season 2 finale. Naturally, this means big changes are happening, not just at the fictional network within the show, which is struggling after launching a streaming service right as the pandemic hit the U.S. (the series loves its “ripped-from-the-headlines” approach to storytelling), but for the actual show as well. Emmy winner Jon Hamm joins the cast as tech billionaire Paul Marks, who takes an interest in Uba (and perhaps a little bit more), while Nicole Beharie portrays new “Morning Show” anchor Chris Hunter. The first two episodes are currently streaming on Apple TV+, and with so much drama already beginning to unfold,...