"Apple TV has yet to launch a scripted series, but it has already replace two showrunners. '
Bates Motel' developer Kerry Ehrin will replace '
House of Cards' Jay Carson on the up-coming morning show drama series starring Jennifer and actress Reese Witherspoon. Ehrin is poised to sign Apple's first overall deal as well as take over for Carson on the tech giant's up-coming series. Apple and production studio Media Res have parted ways with Carson following "creative differences" on the up-coming series that offers an inside look at the lives of two morning show hosts. Carson was poised to pen the script as well as serve as showrunner. Following the ending deal of her previous project with Universal Television, Ehrin will move to Apple with an exclusive overall development and production deal that includes showrunning duties on the untitled morning show project.
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| new contract negotiations set Aniston & Witherspoon to star, executive producer and co-own the up-coming series |
The morning show drama landed at Apple in a competitive situation with multiple outlets bidding. Apple handed out a two-season, 20-episode order for the series - marking its first order under new heads of video programming Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht. Author Brian Stelter's novel
Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV - which was previously in development at the Lifetime network as a made-for-television movie - will now provide additional background for the show, which is based on an original concept by Media Res's Michael Ellenberg. Witherspoon and Aniston will also serve as executive producers and has recently made new negotiations to co-own the show. Sources note that the two actresses are earning more than $1.25-million per episode for their starring and executive producing roles on the series, and will also received a cut of the show's back-end. The project marks Aniston's return to scripted television more than a decade after '
Friends'. For Ehrin, sources say she landed at Apple in a competitive situation with other studios vying to sign the veteran writer, producer and showrunner, whose credits include '
Friday Night Lights' and '
Parenthood'."
ref. ^1 - "Reese Witherspoon-Jennifer Aniston Apple Drama Replaces Showrunners"/The Hollywood Reporter
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