That very tempting scripted TV project about morning news shows starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon of course got picked up, and Apple was the bidding war winner.

In her first month as a morning show host, Megyn Kelly has experienced visible growing pains, after matriculating from a toxic conservative media outlet into millions of liberal American households.

Megyn Kelly makes her much-anticipated (by me, at least) debut on Today next week, and NBC is pulling out all the stops to make her seem as pleasant and chill as everyone else on the network’s struggling morning show. Unsurprisingly, it’s not quite working.

Kelly Ripa is fine. Michael Strahan is fine. ABC is fine. Everything is fine! That was the gist of the lengthy monologue with which Kelly Ripa opened Tuesday morning’s episode of Live! With Michael & Kelly—her first since news broke of Strahan’s upcoming departure for Good Morning America.

Michael Strahan is departing his co-hosting gig at Live! with Kelly and Michael to join Good Morning America. He’s appeared on GMA twice a week for the last two years and while the new opportunity is worth celebration, it’s also the end of an era of quiet but radical racial representation.

September 8, the day her new talk show premieres, Meredith Vieira will guest host the Today show, filling in for Savannah Guthrie, who's on maternity leave. As previously reported, Katie Couric may also return to do a guest spot; as of right now, nothing has been announced.