‘The Morning Show’ Adds Jon Hamm as Season 3 Regular
Everyone and Jon Hamm. Apple TV Plus has just cast the Emmy-winning actor of Mad Men fame in one of their flagship shows, The Morning Show.
Apple announced the news on Wednesday, just a few days before the critical darling goes back into production for its third season. Hamm will be playing Paul Marks, “a corporate titan who sets his sights on UBA, pulling Cory (Billy Crudup), Alex (Jennifer Aniston), and Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) into his powerful orbit.”
The Morning Show follows the lives of the three protagonists listed above as they try to put together America’s most popular morning show while they navigate a company filled with sexual assault allegations in the middle of the #MeToo era. The second season, in addition to still dealing with the #MeToo movement, also saw our characters dealing with the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In its first season, it received eight Emmy nominations and won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Billy Crudup, who gives an acting masterclass in every frame he’s on-screen). Season two received three Emmy nominations earlier this year, all of them for acting (Reese Witherspoon as Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, Crudup as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and Marcia Gay Harden as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series).
The news comes a few weeks after the Apple TV Plus commercial “Everyone but Jon Hamm” received an Emmy nomination. The video, which you can check out below, poked fun at the actor by saying that every major actor in Hollywood is working for Apple TV Plus, except him. It’s unknown if by the time it aired, Hamm had already signed a deal with Apple.
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