THE MORNING SHOW is returning.... with DL fave Tig Notaro!

Was not expecting this smoldering car wreck to come back. Go figure.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s The Morning Show has locked in another high-profile new addition to its Season 3 cast. Tig Notaro has been tapped for a major recurring role alongside new series regulars Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm. as well as Julianna Margulies, who signed a deal to reprise her Season 2 recurring role.

Notaro will play Amanda Robinson, the chief of staff to corporate titan Paul Marks (Hamm).

The Morning Show follows the professional and personal lives of employees of media conglomerate UBA, focusing on the group that puts together the network’s morning show. Season 2 found the team emerging from the wreckage of hosts Alex (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley’s (Reese Witherspoon) actions, to a new UBA and a world in flux, where identity is everything and the chasm between who we present as and who we really are comes into play.

Along with Aniston and Witherspoon, the Season 2 cast included Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Bel Powley, Desean Terry, Janina Gavankar, Tom Irwin and Marcia Gay Harden. Production is currently underway.

It's so histrionic and try-hard. But, thoroughly enjoyed it (though season 1 was better than 2), and I actually love that they chose Tig to play a character.

No disrespect to Tig, but she, Julianna Margulies, and especially Jon Hamm (who has been doing Progressive commercials with Flo) are hardly top-drawer "gets" as cast members.

The most entertaining thing about that Progressive ad is Jon Hamm's new hairpiece.

I think the third season will be its last one, they had to renew it just because of the names attached.

We'll see what Tig's like, she seemed so tired in her few scenes on Star Trek: Discovery, she hasn't been the same since the cancer.

I thought Season 1 was terrific. A really intelligent exploration of sexual harassment that was dependent wholly on the power differential, not on threats or violence. Having the likeable Steve Carrell as the perp was a great idea. But it was a one-arc story and nothing that happened in Season 2 made it better.

Season 1 was good entertainment. Season 2 was a nearly unwatchable train wreck.

I liked Tig's One Mississippi show, though I think it really benefited from being only two six-episode seasons. I never got sick of it.

This show is a messy train wreck. I was hoping all the leads were going to die from COVID. And is Steve Carell's character really dead?

So true, R5. Steve Carell does a great job playing with viewers' perspective and emotions. He's a very likable guy. I thought Season 2 started out weak with a lot of wealthy white women whining and then it just took off. Kudos to the writers for the lesbian twist and not shying from showing the unlikable sides of their main characters. That makes the show interesting to watch. And that ending for Steve Carell?! All I can say is: What?? I hated it, but it was also genius. Imagine the guilt of these people in Season 3. Anniston's back pain is about to get much worse.

The biggest Season 2 issue (out of many) was inconsistency in the writing and plot. Episodes zigged and zagged all over the place. The acting is great and apart from the writing, it’s a high-quality production. They just need a show-runner or one small group of writers.

I liked the zig zagging. Lots of unexpected outcomes. The scene with Billy Crudup checking on Reese in the hallway (as if he didn't just blow up her life) right after she has a fight with her brother? That was gold.

Oh god I had already completely forgotten the entire subplot with Reese and her loser addict brother. That was included ... why?

Because it was a one-arc show and that arc finished at the end of Season 1, R13.

One of the main character’s troubled sibling showing up on the front doorstep with addictions and troubles is such a cliché. All the way back to Tom Hanks appearing on “Family Ties” as Meredith Baxter Birney’s alcoholic brother.

“Industry” just did this cliché too with Harper’s brother. It’s LAZY.

She's so unattractive.....NEEEEEEXT!

r16 It's not lazy if it's done well and the acting is there. I like it, personally.

I can't imagine wanting to see Tig Notaro in anything!

Apparently, she's a comedian, but the bar for "Gay Comic" has always been incredibly low. She seems grimmer than cancer so I just have not been able to force myself to watch her for more than a few minutes, and she wasn't funny to me.

If I had to cast her in anything it would be as a humorless high school custodian snarling at the kids, or a lesbian auto mechanic who has a few dry-yet-sassy lines per episode.

[quote] We'll see what Tig's like, she seemed so tired in her few scenes on Star Trek: Discovery, she hasn't been the same since the cancer.

I suspect she's not in great health and keeps a lot of things on the down low. She probably still works for SAG insurance and also to support the improviser wife who only works on the L Word reboot and also the two brats they have.

Will she be the Che Diaz of broadcast journalism?

I'm interesting to see what happens to Jennifer Aniston's character after the Me Too Times Up blow up, and COVID. And Billy Crudup's character. I wish they hadn't killed off Steve Carell's character because he was great in it. Great cast. I'll be watching.

It's a fun, entertaining show. I think people are reading too much into it and want it to be some kind of masterpiece like "Network" as a tv series but they're just not getting it. It's a nice little comedy/drama about awful people who work in the tv news business.

I forgot that Reese and Juliana were bumping pussies.

It speaks volumes that some of the biggest names in Hollywood are involved in this show, yet the promotion for season 3 has been minimal. I consider it a guilty pleasure even though it’s “so bad it’s…okay.”

Also, I 100% believe this show was irreparably damaged by the Matt Lauer/Me Too events that happened during the production of Season 1. You don’t hire some of the best working comedic actors alive (Anniston, Witherspoon, Carrell, Duplass) to have them weighed down by maudlin storylines and endless navel gazing. Hell, even Martin Short was reduced to playing a rapey director who laments being cancelled!

When the show/cast was first announced, I was hoping for something along the lines of Sports Night, Larry Sanders, or even Broadcast News.

R27 They're not allowed to promote it are they?

I read a review that said Tig is quite underused in this. (Also, that the show sucks balls.)

(I like her a lot.)

Give me $50 million or I’ll tell the world how stupid Bradley & Chip were for getting into that elevator.

R27, I’m a fucking idiot! I forgot the strike is preventing actors from promoting projects.

Sorry, I live in another country and am used to seeing media appearances through old YouTube clips.

Did they get rid of the theme music?

Actors may not be allowed to promote the show due to the strike, but directors and producers still can. And I'm not seeing that for some reason.

The latest episode with the flashback to 2020/2021 was meh and unnecessary.

I thought she faked her cancer- remember all those weird stealth anti Tig threads from about 8-10 years ago?

Apologies if that was all slander and she really has had cancer.

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