Three-time Emmy winner Julianna Margulies is set to return for the upcoming third season of The Morning Show.

According to entertainment website Variety, the actress will reprise her role of UBA anchor Laura Peterson, who is also a love interest for Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) and the former rival of Alex (Jennifer Aniston).

Margulies, best known for shows such as The Good Wife and ER, joins Season 3 of the Apple TV+ series which recently cast Mad Men alum Jon Hamm. She will return in a major recurring role, similar to that in Season 2.

Charlotte Stoudt will serve as showrunner and executive producer in the third season of The Morning Show under her overall deal with Apple. She takes over from Kerry Ehrin, who ran the first two seasons. Mimi Leder serves as director and executive producer on the acclaimed series.

Also attached as executive producers on the show are Michael Ellenberg of Media Res, Aniston and Kristin Hahn through Echo Films, and Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter through Hello Sunshine.

Aubrey Plaza to star in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza is the latest addition to the ensemble cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Megalopolis.

According to entertainment outlet Deadline, the film already has actors Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne on board.

The Godfather filmmaker is directing the independently financed film, his passion project, from his own script.

Coppola previously described Megalopolis as a contemporary drama in which “the fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love”.

The film, mounted on a budget of around USD 100 million, will begin production later this year.

Plaza, who is garnering career best reviews for her recent film Emily the Criminal, is also set to star in the second season of HBO’s hit anthology series The White Lotus.