Following the recent news that Jeff Daniels ( ) will join The Morning Show’s upcoming season, that Jesse Williams ( ) will also be added to the show’s lineup. Here are the details.

As Deadline reported:

The fifth season of Apple TV’s multi-award winning The Morning Show is adding Jesse Williams. The actor will play Vernon, UBN’s newest Head of News, who is known as a brash pot-stirrer with a talent for grabbing and keeping an audience.

Williams, alongside Daniels, will join an award-winning cast which includes Reese Witherspoon ( ), Jennifer Aniston ( ), Nicole Beharie ( ), Nestor Carbonell ( ), Billy Crudup ( ), Mark Duplass ( ), Jon Hamm ( ), and Karen Pittman ( ).

Crudup, in fact, won Apple TV its first Emmy in 2020, when he took home the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award, a feat he repeated in 2024.

To date, The Morning Show has been awarded two other Primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling and Outstanding Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic), both in 2024. In total, the show has received nearly 30 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations.

wrapped its fourth season last November, and Apple has yet to confirm a return date for season 5. When asked recently by The Hollywood Reporter if there was a change of the season premiering in 2026, showrunner Charlotte Stoudt said:

I think so. I haven’t spoken to Apple about any release dates, but between season three and four there was a writers strike, so that was quite a long delay. So without that this year, maybe we’ll move a little more quickly. That’s when I knock on wood!

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