Two years have passed since The Morning Show‘s emotional third season finale, and the power dynamics have changed inside the hallways of UBA since they’ve merged with their network rival into a new media company now known as UBA-NBN.
“The women finally got the keys to the office,” says the award-winnings drama’s showrunner Charlotte Stroudt, “but as I like to say, whenever women take power, there’s always an asterisk. It’s never a clean, ‘Here, you can have them.’”
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