Just a word of appreciation for the third series of The Morning Show, which I recently finished watching - a little bit later than it’s first release, but better late than never. There’s something about this show that is just endlessly fascinating, even though most of the people in it have a bit of a screw loose and aren’t at all relatable. Sometimes even within an episode, I wonder why I’m watching it, but when the series was over, I missed it. There was a gap in my day that I had previously filled with TV show execs battling it out for supremacy within their own network and with other companies.

This series had new cast members, like Jon Hamm and Tig Notaro who was criminally underused, as well as returning characters such as the brother who is constantly getting into trouble or the rival morning show presenter turned lover. Everyone does such a good job, and all look totally glossy even when they’re having meltdowns.

I liked how the series moved on several years but then flashed back to what had happened during lockdown, events that were continuing to have an impact many moons later. There was a space flight subplot that felt a little too close to For All Mankind, but it only lasted for one episode and then we had moved on to the more familiar territory of watching Cory Ellison (the marvellous Billy Crudup) manipulating his way around New York.

I’m glad there’s a fourth series of this show coming, it was announced before the third had even been released, but do hope there can be slightly fewer obvious compromises just because it’s airing on Apple TV. A significant plot point of the final episode surrounded hacking of messages and all of a sudden our heroes are using some random messaging app, even though they all have iPhones. Because heaven forbid Messages could be hacked. I’m sure there’s plenty of it that I don’t see, but it felt like the first really obvious time that some bigwigs called the shots over the storytelling. A minor point, but not unnoticed.

Regardless, even though it felt like Reece and Jennifer were bidding their characters farewell at the end of the final episode, there’s bound to be more story to tell, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.