Mitch’s New York Condo from “The Morning Show”

It’s been a minute (literally) since I’ve blogged about a location from The Morning Show, but, don’t worry, I’ve still got a few more up my sleeve – namely the modern building that served as beleaguered television host Mitch Kessler’s (Steve Carell) New York pied-à-terre.  I had a hunch that the property was most likely in the downtown L.A. area (though set in NYC, the vast majority of the new Apple TV+ series was lensed in Los Angeles) and that hunch turned out to be correct.  And I have my beloved Starbucks to thank for leading me to it!

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While scrutinizing one of the scenes featuring Mitch’s building, I noticed a Starbucks situated diagonally across from it (it’s denoted with a yellow arrow below, though the signage is a bit tough to make out due to some rather frenetic camera movement in the segment).  The Starbucks is actually one I know well as it is a frequent stop whenever the Grim Cheaper and I are in the area.  In fact, we even once randomly ran into Chas, of the Its Filmed There website, at the café, so it seems to be a popular sojourn spot for many stalkers!  Once I recognized the place, I simply used Google Street View to head over to its location at the corner of 11th Street and South Grand Avenue and then rotated the screen around until I landed on the building kitty-corner from it.  As it turns out, Mitch’s New York home can be found at 1050 South Grand.

Known as Ten50 in real life, the 25-story property, developed by Trumark Urban and designed by HansonLA, was completed in 2016.

The contemporary building is made up of 151 one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and penthouse condos.

Just about as upscale as it gets, Ten50’s amenities include concierge service, a fitness studio with an outdoor yoga deck, meeting space, gated parking with over thirty spots for electric vehicles, a screening room, a business center, a club lounge, and a fifth-floor sun deck with a pool, spa, cabanas, BBQs, indoor/outdoor kitchens, and a fireplace.

The building also boasts the city’s first landing pad made especially for drone deliveries.  (I’m guessing that feature doesn’t get utilized much.)

Mitch’s building does not show up until the ninth episode of The Morning Show, titled “Play the Queen,” in which the fallen anchor returns to New York to try to orchestrate an interview with Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon).  The lobby of Ten50, which you can see photos of here and here, is featured early in the episode.

Hannah Schoenfeld (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) also later confronts Mitch about her assault outside of the building.

And I was thrilled to discover while poking around images of various Ten50 units I found online that the actual interior of Penthouse 2 was used as Mitch’s condo!  Per a recent real estate listing, in which the unit was offered for a whopping $5,699,000, the 2-level space was custom–built by the Brown Design Group and boasts 2 bedrooms, 4 baths, 30-foot ceilings, 3,930 square feet, a whiskey den, floor-to-ceiling windows, a galley kitchen with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances, a large wrap-around balcony, a bonus balcony off the master bedroom, and an upper-level terrace.  Worth every penny, I say!  The place is pretty much my ideal living space.  You can check out a video of the absolutely exquisite interior here.

As you can see in the screen captures as compared to the MLS photos above and below, it appears that The Morning Show made use of some of the condo’s actual furnishings including the kitchen island bar stools and the dining table.

The unit also appeared in the Season 1 finale of The Morning Show, titled “The Interview.”  Not only do Mitch, Bradley, Chip Black (Mark Duplass), and Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) powwow about Mitch’s upcoming secret interview in Penthouse 2’s living room . . .

. . . but Cory also later has a come-to-Jesus meeting with Mitch in the same spot and, in one of my favorite monologues from the series, very profoundly advises Mitch to confess to his assaults.

And it is in Ten50’s lobby that Mitch and Chip get into a fistfight at the end of the episode.

Thanks to fellow stalker Brett, I learned that Mitch’s penthouse is also where Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) lived in the recently-aired Season 3 episode of Westworld titled “The Absence of Field.”

And thanks to fellow stalker Tyler, I learned that the penthouse played the Moscow condo where Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin) resided in the series finale of Homeland, titled “Prisoners of War.”

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Until next time, Happy Stalking! 
Stalk It: Ten50, aka Mitch’s “New York” building from The Morning Show, is located at 1050 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.  You can visit the property’s official website here.