Season 5 of Apple TV’s The Morning Show has begun adding new faces to its already stacked cast.

Season 4 left off with a major character and actress making their departures about midway through. Already, three names have been added to the mix of the news network world and beyond.

For everything we know about The Morning Show Season 5, read on.

When will The Morning Show Season 5 come out?

The release date for the next season is unclear, as production has not yet started.

Is The Morning Show Season 5 in production?

Yes, in an interview with Deadline, Lauren Neustadter confirmed from set of The Nightingale that Season 5 is currently filming.

Will there be more seasons of The Morning Show?

No, the fifth season is the final installment for the Apple drama show.

Who will be new in The Morning Show Season 5?

Jeff Daniels has joined the drama series to play the major recurring role of Lukas, a self-made billionaire and founder of a well-known investment firm. Daniels also recently joined the cast of Apple TV’s Shrinking Season 3 as Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) father.

Deadline also broke the news that Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams will portray Vernon, UBN’s newest Head of News. He’s known as “a brash pot-stirrer with a talent for grabbing and keeping an audience.”

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The latest cast addition is Reneé Rapp, who will make her return to acting after a break following her role in HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls as Samantha, “a young rising star in the UBN news division determined to make it in media on her own terms.”

At the end of April, Apple revealed that Jeff Wilbusch (Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen) and Sydney Park (Scary Movie, Moxie) have been recruited to join the newsroom. Park will play Cory Ellison’s (Billy Crudup) new assistant, Leah. Wilbusch will recur as Roman, Head of Protective Services for the UBN News Division.

Who will return to The Morning Show Season 4?

Most of the ensemble in recent seasons will return from Aniston and Witherspoon to the Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm.

More below on why Greta Lee won’t be returning for Season 5. Aaron Pierre is also likely out as hinted by showrunner Charlotte Stoudt.

What is The Morning Show Season 5 about?

Not many plot details despite character descriptions for new cast have been revealed. Stoudt teased that a time would be likely between Seasons 4 and 5 as have been in breaks between installments in the past.

It will be interesting to see Jesse Williams’ Vernon enter the fray as the new Head of News, a position that has been somewhat cursed and was taken by William Jackson Harper’s Ben last season while Mia (Karen Pittman) had been vying for it for a long time. Stoudt teased that things would “get interesting between” Mia and Ben in Season 5.

“Oddly enough, a door is open that wasn’t open before, and Mia’s now thinking, ‘Well, gosh, maybe I wanted the wrong job. Maybe I wanted the big job after all,’” Stoudt told Deadline. “So I think that may be Stella’s strongest legacy, to sort of remind Mia what she might be capable of, and that she might be a much better fit for that job than Stella ever was.”

Season four of The Morning Show” took place in spring 2024, almost two years after the events of season three. All of the below plot summary took place before UBN headed to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.

What happened in The Morning Show Season 4?

Season 4 concluded with Celine Dumont’s (Marion Cotillard) downfall in the finale after she was exposed for a deepfake of Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and other manipulative tactics to control the narrative at the now merged UBA and NBN — UBN.

The Head of News position went to Ben (William Jackson Harper), a Celine hire, which strained Mia and Stella’s (Greta Lee) friendship before Stella made a huge mistake with an AI program she was trying to develop. Thus, she left the CEO position open, and Celine took it over in addition to serving as president of the board at UBN.

Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) and Charlie “Chip” Black (Mark Duplass) investigated an environmental justice campaign with Bel Powley popping back in to make a brief appearance as Claire Conway. Yanko (Nestor Carbonnell) saw her, but he still proposed to his girlfriend.

Alex had a fling with manosphere podcaster Brodie “Bro” Hartman (Boyd Holbrook) while Bradley and Corey (Billy Crudup) finally got together, though that was short-lived. Alex got on a plane to rescue Bradley from a gulag in Belarus.

Who is behind The Morning Show Season 5?

The series, which hails from television studio Media Res, is showrun and executive produced by Charlotte Stoudt, and directed and executive produced by Mimi Leder.

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When it first premiered at SXSW way back in the spring 2025, director Andrew Patterson’s “The Rivals of Amziah King” looked like it could be a future awards contender and major crowdpleaser, a triumphant return to the screen for star Matthew McConaughey (for the first time in six years) and an affirmation of rising director Patterson (“The Vast of Night”).

But the film‘s combination of bluegrass-tinged saga and crime film, which followed McConaughey as a singing beekeeper, took some time to find a home and proved to be a harder sell for international audiences, so producer and financier Black Bear opted to release “Amziah King” itself.

The film’s limited opening this past weekend, more than a year after that strong world premiere, was respectable, but not the heralded summer sleeper we may have hoped for.

With just over $1 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend from 632 theaters, “The Rivals of Amziah King” failed to crack the domestic Top 10 in a slower mid-August weekend and managed a per-screen-average of $1,625. That put it behind the concert film “Katseye: Wild Hearts” (also in limited release), Bollywood movie “Vishwanath & Sons” (which was on even fewer screens), and the tenth anniversary re-release of the popular anime “Your Name.”

“Amziah King” is still one of the first releases for Black Bear’s new distribution arm, which also has, to date, put out the Sydney Sweeney boxing biopic “Christy,” Daniel Roher’s “Tuner,” and Guy Ritchie’s “In the Grey.” “Christy” quickly became a punching bag as a major flop from last fall, bringing in just shy of $2 million domestic despite a budget of $15 million and the belief that Sweeney could launch that movie into orbit.

But “Tuner” has proven to be a pleasant surprise. It opened on just four screens this Memorial Day and had a PSA of $26,105. It did $1.7 million in its second weekend from 452 screens, fewer than “Amziah King” did in its opening. It topped out at $4.4 million domestic, the type of specialized release that clearly benefitted from word of mouth and some light awards chatter.

Can that still happen with “Amziah King”? The film is unlikely to expand wider next weekend and will ultimately hit a similar screen count to what “Tuner” did in its own run, never going above 500 theaters, so it will rely on critics and awards buzz to help it grow. IndieWire’s review wasn’t glowing out of last year’s SXSW, but it has a strong Rotten Tomatoes score and a premise that certainly stands out. (In fact, the film’s premise is so unique that comping it to other films would be both tricky and fruitless.)

Perhaps the best comp is to another Black Bear film that hasn’t come out yet, “Wicker,” another starry festival darling with an unusual premise, following a character played by Oscar winner Olivia Colman who falls in love with a man made of wicker. That film has been picking up its own grassroots buzz since it premiered at this year’s Sundance, with people online seeing the first trailer and almost instantly making memes about what it must feel like to sleep with essentially a giant basket.

Regardless, some growing pains are to be expected for some of these upstart distributors, with everyone from 1-2 Special to Row K (which has certainly had its share of problems) trying to thread a needle with smaller films, many of them still with big stars and commercial premises, hoping to find their audience in an unforgiving theatrical market.

“The Rivals of Amziah King” isn’t a flop, but it seems like it’s going to take a bit longer to find its own audience.