The Morning Show
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50 free The Morning Show trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Morning Show launched Apple TV+ in 2019 with two of the biggest stars in television, a $15 million-per-episode budget and a plot reworked mid-development to take on the #MeToo moment. Four seasons later it has 28 Emmy nominations, two Emmys for Billy Crudup, and a fifth and final season on the way. These 50 questions cover the cast first: Alex Levy and Bradley Jackson, Cory Ellison, Mitch Kessler, Chip, Hannah, Yanko, Stella Bak, Laura Peterson, Paul Marks, Celine Dumont, and the parade of guest stars from Mindy Kaling and Martin Short to Stephen Fry, the Foo Fighters and Maria Sharapova. Then the production story: the Brian Stelter book, the showrunner who left, Kerry Ehrin and Mimi Leder, the Los Angeles building where filming began, the pandemic shutdown, the Australian retitling and the critic who compared it to Sports Night. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something either way. Play it solo or print it for a watch-party quiz.
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Q 01Which movement erupted as The Morning Show's first script arrived, forcing the story to be reworked?
MeToo
MeToo. NBC fired Today's Matt Lauer in late 2017, just as the first script came in, and the producers brought in a new showrunner to work the scandal into the plot.
Q 02Which real 2017 tragedy do Alex and Mitch cover in a season one flashback to his fiftieth birthday?
The Las Vegas shooting
The Las Vegas shooting. It is on that reporting trip that Mitch assaults Hannah, a junior member of the team, and the network's president later buys her silence with a promotion.
Q 03The Morning Show was inspired by which 2013 book?
Top of the Morning
Top of the Morning. Its subtitle promised 'the cutthroat world of morning TV'; the series borrowed that backdrop and invented its own network, anchors and scandal.
Q 04How does Mitch Kessler die in season two of The Morning Show?
In a car crash
In a car crash. Dazzled by headlights on a dark mountain road, he drifts towards a cliff edge and lifts his hands off the wheel instead of swerving.
Q 05Under what title is The Morning Show streamed in Australia?
Morning Wars
Morning Wars. Australian television already had a real morning talk show called The Morning Show, so the drama took a new name there.
Q 06Which Morning Show star won a SAG Award in 2020?
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston. Two of her castmates were nominated the same night and both lost to Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage, leaving hers as the show's one win.
Q 07What did Bradley Jackson do before co-anchoring?
Local TV reporter
Local TV reporter. A video of her shouting down a protester goes viral, the show has her on as a guest, and Alex names her co-anchor on impulse at an awards ceremony.
Q 08Billy Crudup plays which character?
Cory Ellison
Cory Ellison. He starts as head of the news division and schemes his way up to run the whole network, using Bradley's arrival to unsettle everyone above him.
Q 09Which Office star plays The Morning Show's Mitch Kessler?
Steve Carell
Steve Carell. It was his first TV series role since The Office, and he signed for a single season before agreeing to come back for a second.
Q 10Mark Duplass plays which executive producer of The Morning Show's show-within-a-show?
Chip Black
Chip Black. Fired once Alex trades away his job, he presses on with a plan to smuggle the disgraced Mitch back into the studio.
Q 11Which fictional network broadcasts The Morning Show's show-within-a-show?
UBA
UBA. In season four it merges with its rival NBN, and the combined company goes on air as UBN.
Q 12Set in Manhattan, The Morning Show's first season was mostly filmed where?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles. Downtown streets there stood in for Midtown, and the crew reached New York itself only for the last few days of seven months of filming.
Q 13What job does Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Hannah Shoenfeld hold?
Talent booker
Talent booker. The casting notice called Hannah 'whip-smart and charming'; what Mitch did to her, and how the network bought her silence, becomes the heart of the first season.
Q 21Which French Oscar winner joined season four of The Morning Show as Celine Dumont?
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard. Her Celine Dumont, billed as 'a savvy operator from a storied European family', joins the merged network's leadership and ends the season forcing Alex to resign on air.
Q 22On The Morning Show, Nicole Beharie's new co-host Christine Hunter is a former what?
Olympian
Olympian. A track star once pictured on cereal boxes, she learns that a leaked email from one of her new bosses sneered at exactly that, and confronts her about it live on air.
Q 23Jeremy Irons joined season four of The Morning Show as Martin Levy, who is Alex's what?
Father
Q 14What job does Néstor Carbonell's character, Yanko Flores, hold on The Morning Show?
Weatherman
Weatherman. Announced as a charmer who 'thinks meteorology is poetry', Yanko falls for Claire, a production assistant, and the two hide it until HR calls them in.
Q 15Karen Pittman plays which producer?
Mia Jordan
Mia Jordan. She asks to be Bradley's producer and then announces the job to the room before her boss has agreed to give it to her.
Q 16In the season one finale of The Morning Show, what do Alex and Bradley do live on air?
Expose the network's cover-up
Expose the network's cover-up. They tell viewers that the man at the top knew about the misconduct and protected it, and the broadcast is cut off mid-sentence.
Q 17Jack Davenport plays Jason Craig, who is Alex's what?
Ex-husband
Ex-husband. The two keep up the look of a marriage for the sake of her image until he insists on a real divorce, and they have to tell their daughter.
Q 18Which actor plays Stella Bak, the network's news president, on The Morning Show?
Greta Lee
Greta Lee. Her Stella arrives from an online media company to run the network's news, and in season three the billionaire buying the network secretly offers her her own boss's job.
Q 19Julianna Margulies plays which character on The Morning Show?
Laura Peterson
Laura Peterson. Announced simply as a news anchor at the network, she turns out to be Bradley's love interest, a romance that runs across two seasons.
Q 20Which actor joined season three of The Morning Show as tech billionaire Paul Marks?
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm. He arrived fresh from Top Gun: Maverick to play a corporate titan who pulls the network's biggest names into his orbit, and Alex into a romance.
Father. Martin Levy is a university law professor long estranged from Alex, and she turns up at his door only when she needs his advice.
Q 24Which comedy star guests as the rival morning anchor Audra?
Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling. Her Audra fronts the rival network's morning programme and spends the first season trying to lure the weekend host Daniel over to her show.
Q 25Which Oscar winner plays the journalist Maggie Brener?
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden. Her Maggie comes back in season two with a tell-all book that turns on Alex, and the part twice brought Harden an Emmy nomination as a guest actress.
Q 26On The Morning Show, Martin Short guest-stars as a disgraced what?
Movie director
Movie director. He plays an unrepentant old friend of Mitch's, and a single episode's work was enough to earn Short an Emmy nomination.
Q 27On The Morning Show, Holland Taylor's Cybil Reynolds holds which position at the network?
Board member
Board member. As its chair she stands in the way of a sale until a leaked email of hers, sneering at a new anchor, costs her the post in a vote of no confidence.
Q 28Which comedian joined The Morning Show as Bradley's co-host, Eric?
Hasan Minhaj
Hasan Minhaj. Fresh from his Netflix show Patriot Act, he plays a rising star who shares the desk with Bradley for months, then leaves her for the evening news.
Q 29Which British actor and broadcaster joins season three of The Morning Show as board chairman Leonard Cromwell?
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry. His Leonard takes the chair after a vote of no confidence removes his predecessor, and makes it plain he has no patience for the chief executive's patter.
Q 30Boyd Holbrook's Brodie 'Bro' Hartman is a provocative what?
Podcaster
His co-host Sunny Stuber is played by Violett Beane.