Jennifer Aniston is turning up the heat in the sizzling new trailer for The Morning Show -- and this time, she's fully embracing her cougar era.
The Friends legend, 56, is back as powerhouse anchor Alex Levy in season four of the Apple TV+ hit, where chaos erupts at the newly merged network -- and Alex finds herself tangled in a scandalous fling.
In one standout moment, Aniston's character shares an intimate evening with younger right-wing podcaster Brodie (Boyd Holbrook).
He tenderly cradles her face across a candlelit dinner table as the two lean in for a kiss.
Their chemistry doesn't come out of nowhere -- the trailer also shows the pair locked in a fiery office hallway exchange, dripping with sexual tension.
But Alex's romance is just the beginning, as the explosive trailer teases the fallout from the messy merger nearly two years after the season three finale.
Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, and Jon Hamm are all back, and Witherspoon's Bradley Jackson sets the tone from the jump, declaring, 'I'm a firm believer in second chances.'
And that's exactly what she's after -- a shot at making things 'right' inside the newly rebranded UBN (formerly UBA).
'This is a reset,' Aniston's Levy insists, as she poses on the cover of a glossy spread alongside Grace Lee's Stella Bak and Marion Cotillard's Celine Dumont.
The headline across the cover drives the tension home: 'New Paradigm or Glass Cliff? UBN's New Leadership Talk Mergers, Streaming and the Future of News.'
'A different company, a different culture,' Alex continues.
'We promised real change to push the stories we cared about,' adds Stella, while Crudup's slippery CEO Cory Ellison is shown wandering the halls, his expression clouded with doubt.
According to Apple's official synopsis, the new season jumps 'almost two years after the events of season three.'
It teases a newsroom in turmoil: 'With the UBA-NBN merger complete, the newsroom must grapple with newfound responsibility, hidden motives and the elusive nature of truth in a polarized America.'
The hallway battle is dripping with sexual tension.
But Alex's romance is just the beginning, as the explosive trailer teases the fallout from the messy merger nearly two years after the season three finale.
'In a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups -- who can you trust? And how can you know what's actually real?'
Season 4 picks up in the spring of 2024, nearly two years after the chaos of Season 3 -- from the explosive merger to Bradley's reckoning over deleting footage of her brother Hal (Joe Tippett) at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
This time, the drama dives headfirst into UBN's shifting leadership under Alex, Stella (Greta Lee), and Marion Cotillard's Celine Dumont, as well as the rise of artificial intelligence, the threat of deepfakes, and the ever-fractured line between truth and trust in journalism.
'People need to feel that UBN is gonna have it first, and they're gonna have it right,' Karen Pittman's Mia Jordan declares in a boardroom showdown, only for Celine to dismiss it as 'a nice idea' but 'not sexy.'
Elsewhere, Levy pleads with Mark Duplass' Charlie Chip Black after uncovering disturbing environmental headlines, warning, 'UBA was involved in a cover-up.'
Romantic sparks fly as Aaron Pierre's newcomer Miles appears entangled with both Celine and Stella.
The tension builds when Mia confronts Alex directly: 'You pitched UBN as a feminist utopia where women lift each other up. I know what I deserve, and it's my time now.'
Alex shoots back: 'So what is that some kind of a threat?'
Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, and Jon Hamm are all back, and Witherspoon's Bradley Jackson sets the tone from the jump, declaring: 'I'm a firm believer in second chances'
And that's exactly what she's after—a shot at making things 'right' inside the newly rebranded UBN (formerly UBA)
Season 4 picks up in the spring of 2024, nearly two years after the chaos of Season 3—from the explosive merger to Bradley’s reckoning over deleting footage of her brother Hal (Joe Tippett) at the January 6 Capitol insurrection
This time, the drama dives headfirst into UBN’s shifting leadership under Alex, Stella (Greta Lee), and Marion Cotillard’s Celine Dumont, as well as the rise of artificial intelligence, the threat of deepfakes, and the ever-fractured line between truth and trust in journalism
Family drama adds another layer, with Jeremy Irons stepping in as Alex’s father, pointedly asking, ‘Do you realize what you’ve done?’
Hamm’s Marks urges Alex to ‘dig’ and ‘find out where the bodies are buried,’ just as FBI agents storm the halls of UBN.
‘The truth is incendiary,’ Mia warns in the trailer’s closing moments. ‘And it’s under attack.’
The Emmy-winning drama returns Sept. 17 on Apple TV+, rolling out one new episode each week through Nov. 19, for a total of 10 episodes.