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What ‘The Morning Show’ and ‘The Girls on the Bus’ Learned From Fox News to Craft Right-Wing Media

'The Morning Show' and 'The Girls on the Bus' producers explain how Fox News inspired their fictional right-wing media networks.

After “ The Morning Show ” began its third season last fall, showrunner Charlotte Stoudt received a text message from “a very well-known anchor on a national news network” with some constructive criticism. But Kimberlyn is one of the four leads of “The Girls on the Bus,” and as such, she had to embody the visual cues of right-leaning news media while out in the world, right down to her clothes — inspiration for which came from real Fox personalities such as Laura Ingraham. While Kimberlyn pounds the pavement on the campaign trail, she’s occasionally in the studio at Liberty Direct News, multiple sets for which were constructed with an appropriate smattering of red, white and blue by production designer Curt Beech.

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