That said, everyone involved in the new series has been quite clear that none of the series' characters are meant to stand in for real people. Morning Show writer and showrunner Kerry Ehrin had plenty of source material from decades of broadcast journalism, as well as the wave of sexual misconduct allegations flooding the news in recent years, but she and Aniston have said nothing is a direct representation of any particular anchor or story . “It was a combination of all these different scenarios of this taking place that we were representing,” Aniston told Yahoo! Entertainment.