Katie Couric has some solutions for Apple TV’s “The Morning Present.”
The Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon-starring sequence — which is predicated on Brian Stelter’s e book concerning the morning present wars, known as “Prime of the Morning” — is rumored to be about Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and extra key gamers within the enterprise. Aniston’s character, Alex Levy, is claimed to be based mostly on Couric throughout her time on the “Right this moment” present, whereas co-star Steve Carell’s character — who's embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal — is regarded as based mostly on since-fired Matt Lauer, although the forged has firmly maintained that he’s based mostly on a mixture of highly effective males in media.
Couric, 63, hasn’t spoken publicly concerning the present, which debuted final 12 months, till now.
“I've so many ideas … I believed a few of it was actually fascinating, and i believe the long-term influence and the intense devastation that outcomes from sure behaviors was fairly effectively represented, or fairly effectively conveyed in that,” Couric mentioned on the podcast “The whole lot Iconic with Danny Pellegrino.”
“I believe Jennifer Aniston is nice. … I want they'd made her extra charismatic as a result of I believe you want a sure ebullience to tug off a present like that,” Couric continued.
Couric mentioned she didn’t need to dish an excessive amount of on her ideas as a result of she’ll be detailing them extra in her forthcoming memoir, which is slated for a 2021 launch.
“I believed it was actually fascinating to observe,” she shared with Pellegrino, “… but it surely was very fascinating for me to observe, I’ll simply depart it at that.”
A supply beforehand advised The Put up that Couric was penning a memoir as a result of “she will’t get a job on TV.” Having labored at ABC, NBC and CBS, “She’s burned so many bridges,” the supply mentioned.
Couric’s memoir will element her expertise working with now-disgraced Lauer on “Right this moment,” her rivalry with ABC’s Diane Sawyer and, in line with Little, Brown, “the time a high-ranking govt commented on her breast dimension in entrance of the highest brass throughout an editorial assembly.”
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