Popular actor Jeff Daniels will join the fifth season cast of Apple TV‘s popular drama series “The Morning Show,” according to Deadline. Daniels will play “a self-made billionaire and founder of a well-known investment firm.”
This will mark the third Apple TV project Daniels has been involved in, appearing most recently in the current season of Shrinking, and before that narrating the 2021 documentary 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room.
Daniels should be comfortable with The Morning Show’s newsroom set, as he had an Emmy-winning turn as lead anchor Will McAvoy in Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, which is currently available on HBO Max.
Daniels joins an already star-studded cast, which includes co-leads Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Beharie, Nestor Carbonell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Jon Hamm, and Karen Pittman.
The Morning Show wrapped up its fourth season last November, and a return date for the fifth season has yet to be announced.
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