There’s a lot of anger and shouting in the opening episode of The Morning Show, as well individual throwing stuff at each other and someone furiously smashing a TV set with a golf club. But not many laughs. Perhaps it’s just us, but a series set in the intrinsically ludicrous world of US morning television, starring some of the finest comedic actors of our time, seems to promise fun.###As eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly filmed and lavishly manufacture d as you’d expect of a high-end TV drama.###Instead, The Morning Show is tonally quite intense. Think Aaron Sorkin’s earnest, hour-long drama Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip rather than Tina Fey’s sprightly sitcom 30 Rock. What it does provide is a meaty role in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Jennifer Aniston (also an exec manufacture r) as Alex Levy, half of a star presenting duo on a long-running network news reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , alongside Steve Carell’s Mitch Kessler. Until, that is, she wakes up one morning to find Kessler is at the centre of a me-too scandal, and he’s summarily fired by the network. At this intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully same moment, local TV news reporter Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) is going viral with a rant she unleashed while covering a political demo.###A Witherspoon v Aniston dynamic is eliminate’remove ly being set up, with Witherspoon’s hard-working, aspiring star lined up as a rival to Aniston’s complacent veteran. A tense on-air face-off between the two of them, mutual mistrust simmering below the surface, is the highlight of episode one. But initially, the dramatic jeopardy mostly comes from the sexual impropriety allegations swirling round Mitch and how they impact e grossly one around him.###It’s as eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly filmed and lavishly manufacture d as you’d expect of a high-end TV drama, but overall the series doesn’t quite possess’own’nurse the bite and brio of, say, Succession. Then again, few TV dramas do. What The Morning Show does possess’own’nurse is a spiky topicality and a rip-roaringly rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance by Aniston.