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Shows Like The Morning Show: Workplace Power Plays
By Jordan A. · · Updated · 5 min read
The Morning Show (Apple TV, 2019 to present, four seasons) is not really about broadcast news. It is about what happens inside an organisation when the person everyone built the schedule around turns out to be a liability, and about two women who need each other and cannot stand each other. The news is the setting. The politics of a workplace under a camera is the show.
Recommending it well means separating those threads. Some of what follows is newsroom drama. Some is corporate knife fighting with better suits. Some is one ambitious woman in a building designed to stop her. Each pick says what it shares, where it diverges and who should take it, and one line you can verify. Where each title streams moves around, so the title page on BingeNext shows current US options.
Actual newsrooms
The Newsroom (HBO, 2012 to 2014, three seasons) is Aaron Sorkin's cable news drama, with Jeff Daniels as an anchor who decides to start telling the truth and Emily Mortimer as the producer forcing him into it. The cast includes Olivia Munn, Alison Pill and Dev Patel. It is preachier and more romantic than The Morning Show, and it is at its best when a story breaks and the control room takes over. Start with the pilot and decide fast, because the show never changes.
The Hour (BBC Two, 2011 and 2012, two seasons of six episodes) sets a current affairs program in 1956 London during the Suez crisis, with Romola Garai as the producer holding it together and Ben Whishaw as the reporter who will not drop a story. It is quieter and better dressed than The Morning Show, and the ratio of workplace to conspiracy is about even. Twelve episodes total, which makes it an easy commitment.
Corporate power, no cameras required
Succession (HBO, 2018 to 2023, four seasons and thirty-nine episodes) is a media family destroying itself over who gets the company. It is the sharpest-written show on this list and the funniest, and the boardroom scenes make The Morning Show's look polite. The difference is that nobody in Succession is trying to be good. Choose it if the corporate manoeuvring is what keeps you watching.
Industry (HBO and BBC, 2020 to present, four seasons) follows graduates at a London investment bank through their first years of being used. It is faster and more physical than The Morning Show, less interested in ethics, and superb on the specific cruelty of an office that rewards you for damage. Take it if you want the ambition without the celebrity.
Mad Men (AMC, 2007 to 2015, seven seasons) is the ancestor of all of this: an agency, a man built on a lie, and a copywriter who takes the whole place apart over ten years by simply being better at the job. Slower than anything else here. Peggy Olson's arc is the best career story television has produced.
Severance (Apple TV, 2022 and 2025, two seasons) surgically splits employees into a work self and a home self, and then asks what a company owes either of them. It is the strangest pick here and thematically the most on-target: the whole show is about who owns your time. Very different tone, same wound.
Women running the room
The Good Wife (CBS, 2009 to 2016, seven seasons) has Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, restarting a legal career after her husband Peter, the state's attorney, goes to prison in a scandal. Her bosses are Will Gardner and Diane Lockhart, and the show is far smarter about office politics than a network procedural has any right to be. It is the closest thing to The Morning Show's central question: what do you owe an institution that used you.
The Good Fight (2017 to 2022, six seasons) picks up with Diane Lockhart starting over at a new firm, and it is angrier, funnier and stranger than the show it came from. Christine Baranski is the reason to watch. Fine to start here without the parent series.
Damages (2007 to 2012, five seasons, first three on FX and the last two on Audience Network) is Glenn Close as a litigator who treats her protege as a resource. It is the meanest mentor relationship on television and a direct ancestor of Alex and Bradley. Structurally it jumps around in time, which takes an episode to settle into.
Limited series about a collapse
The Dropout (Hulu, 2022, eight episodes) tracks Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos from dorm room to indictment. Amanda Seyfried won the Primetime Emmy for Lead Actress in a Limited Series for it in 2022. It has The Morning Show's interest in the moment an organisation decides not to ask a question.
WeCrashed (Apple TV, 2022, eight episodes) does the same for WeWork, with Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as a couple who talk a valuation into existence. It is lighter and more comic than The Dropout, and it is very good on how a workplace culture gets built to protect one person.
Where to start
If you want the newsroom specifically, The Newsroom, then The Hour. If you want the corporate blood sport, Succession, then Industry. If you want one woman rebuilding a career inside a hostile institution, The Good Wife. If you have a single weekend, The Dropout.
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Topics covered: drama, workplace, media, contemporary, power-plays, apple-tv
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.