Apple's 'The Morning Show' was only going to touch on #MeToo. She fought to make it the focus
LOS ANGELES - "I'm about to go on a ride I've never been on," Kerry Ehrin says inside her office on the Sony lot in Culver City.
The 59-year-old writer and producer is hardly a novice, with credits that include "Friday Night Lights" and "Bates Motel." But for the past 15 months or so she's been on the suspenseful tick, tick, tick climb up the first peak of television's newest attraction, Apple TV+, as the showrunner of the company's most anticipated series and perhaps her highest-profile project to date: "The Morning Show."
The drama stars Jennifer Aniston, in her first TV role since "Friends," as Alex Levy, a morning news anchor dealing with ageism, sexism and the collateral damage wrought by her disgraced male co-anchor (played by Steve Carell), who is fired over sexual harassment allegations. Reese Witherspoon costars as Bradley Jackson, a local reporter in West Virginia who finds herself caught up in the high-stakes world of morning news.
"The Morning Show" is one of nine original
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