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Note: This story contains spoilers from \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d Season 4.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d is back with another rollercoaster ride down the world of American media, but that won\u2019t include the 2024 Election.<\/p>\n More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n The Apple TV+ drama, which kicked off Season 4 Wednesday, picks up the drama in April 2024, two years after the fictional network UBA, which houses the titular morning news program at the show\u2019s center, merged with a rival network to create a broadcast media empire. After a difficult period of transition that involved layoffs, company leadership secured the rights to the Olympics, which they consider the start of a fruitful new era.<\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted to give them enough runway to run into a lot of problems right before the Olympics started,\u201d showrunner Charlotte Stoudt told TheWrap of Season 4. \u201cThat\u2019s their holy grail. They just want to get to that opening ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n The timing also puts \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d months before the events leading up to Donald Trump\u2019s election, and the start of a tumultuous time that is already reshaping the media landscape in which the show is set.<\/p>\n Stoudt credited the decision partially to the show\u2019s production schedule, which put the writers\u2019 room well before the Election cycle had picked up in the latter half of the year.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we weren\u2019t really going to directly play an Election story,\u201d she said. \u201cThe show takes place in a reality where the presidential candidates are the real candidates, so that\u2019s not really a story we can tell.\u201d<\/p>\n The politics of the moment still influenced the themes the writers explored in Season 4, however, which include introducing Alex Levy\u2019s (Jennifer Aniston) father Martin (Jeremy Irons) to delve into the TV journalist\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we sat down to begin the writers\u2019 room, the matchup was a rewatch of these two older guys and we asked ourselves, \u2018Why do we still need daddy?\u2019 \u201d Stoudt said, referring to the Trump-Biden rematch in the early Election year months. \u201cCan\u2019t we move past this need for a parental figure? That led us to think about parenting and how parents play such a big role, even in [our characters\u2019] personal stories this year \u2026 They still loom almost mythically in our minds.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d Season 4 releases new episodes Wednesdays on Apple TV+.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Why \u2018The Morning Show\u2019 Season 4 Doesn\u2019t Cover the 2024 Election<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note: This story contains spoilers from \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d Season 4. \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d is back with another rollercoaster ride down the world of American media, but that won\u2019t include the 2024 Election. 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