The Morning Show

“WE SHOULD DO the news, not be the news,” declares Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup), the CEO and Machiavellian master of damage control at the fictional UBA network. Does he even know what show he’s on?

- MATT ROUSH

Wednesdays, Apple TV+

So many scandalous shoes drop in the blistering third season of this slick look inside a TV fishbowl that you wonder why they don’t read the headlines barefoot. Evening anchor Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) harbors a designer’s closet full of personal and ethical secrets with the ability to wreck several careers. Her former morning-show partner Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) has moved on from her rivalry with her costar and is now the glamorous face of the network and its streaming division. She has the power to decide UBA’s fate in her dealings, possibly amorous, with the Elon Musk–like billionaire Paul Marks (