SERIES PREMIERE: This is the big Apple TV+ flagship program. Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon play rising and falling stars in the highly competitive world of morning television. I don’t fault the acting, but the writing is so predictable, and the characters so caricatured and emptily preachy, that this is not a
Morning Show I’d bother to watch. Yet Apple TV+ has given it a two-year, 20-episode commitment already, and thrown more money at it than, perhaps, any other TV series ever made. For my full review on NPR’s
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, which includes clips from several of the streaming service’s new offerings,
listen to today’s show, or
stop by later at the Fresh Air website. And for reviews here at TV Worth Watching, see
Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and
David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.