Morning Glory

Plots: An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts. Becky (Rachel McAdams) is a hard-working morning TV show producer, or at least she was until she got fired. Desperate to get a job, she finally gets an interview with Jerry (Jeff Goldblum) – who is desperate to hire a producer for the struggling show “Daybreak”. Becky accepts the job and it proves to be more difficult than even she might be able to handle. She has to fire the sexist co-host, then try to convince egotistical news reporter, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), to take the job, and then try and get him to actually do the job, properly. And she has to do this while falling for handsome Adam (Patrick Wilson), and trying to save the show from plummeting ratings. Will Becky be able to hold on to her dream job and her sanity? Becky Fuller is a producer at the local talk television show Good Morning New Jersey. Working in morning talk television has been her dream since she was a child, she, when she was an outsider, seeing it as a friend to which to wake up. She is also the hardest working producer in the business, being the first to arrive, the last to leave, and always being connected to her phone so as not to miss anything for the next show, which has resulted in her having no personal life of which to speak. What all those around her assume will be her promotion to senior producer ends up being she being fired in the station opting for someone with a journalism degree, they unable to afford her and the new senior producer. Hustling for a job in the business and willing to take almost anything, she accepts the only job she is eventually offered: executive producer at Daybreak, IBS network’s national morning talk show. Becky and almost everyone that works on Daybreak realize that its dismal ratings reflect the fact that it is an awful show, it the fourth ranked of four national morning talk shows, hence the reason that she is only the latest in a long line of people short-lived in the position. In what is one of her first self-induced tasks, she needs to find a co-host for the longtime female host, Colleen Peck, one, according to the network executive Jerry Barnes, who “doesn’t cost any money”. Who Becky finds is Mike Pomeroy, a once prominent, hard-hitting reporter who is now on contract at IBS, where he is biding his time doing nothing substantive. Mike has no choice but to accept the job despite feeling morning television as a whole beneath him. Becky ends up having to act as mediator between warring Colleen and Mike, the latter who refuses to do any fluff pieces partly in an effort to get fired to be able to go back to riding out his contract in peace. In the process, Becky also tries to navigate a relationship with Adam Bennett, a fellow producer at IBS. What happens in combination is affected by news from Jerry about the status of the show.