Rick Porter
Television Business Editor
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Rick Porter joined The Hollywood Reporter in 2018 and covers TV ratings and measurement, deals, renewals and cancellations and other aspects of the business. He was previously editor of TV by the Numbers and associate editor at Tribune Media's Zap2it.
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Peacock Strikes Gold With Outsized Olympics, Super Bowl Audiences
The Milan Cortina Olympics is already the most streamed winter games less than a week in.
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TV Ratings: ‘Muppet Show’ More than Doubles Audience After Eight Days
The special has climbed to more than 7.5 million viewers across all platforms.
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‘Terminator Zero’ Canceled After Single Season at Netflix
The anime series set in the film franchise’s world premiered more than a year ago.
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Elisabeth Moss Books Return to Hulu in ‘Conviction’ Legal Drama
The series based on novels by Jack Jordan comes from showrunner David Shore and counts Warren Littlefield as an EP.
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Streaming Ratings: ‘His & Hers’ Dethrones ‘Stranger Things’
‘Landman,’ ‘The Pitt’ and ‘The Traitors’ all score series highs in mid-January, and ‘The Rip’ has a big opening on the movie charts.
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‘Saturday Night Live’: Connor Storrie, Ryan Gosling to Host After Winter Olympics Hiatus
Here are all of season 51’s hosts and musical guests.
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David Boreanaz to Star in NBC’s ‘Rockford Files’ Reboot
The former ‘SEAL Team,’ ‘Bones’ and ‘Angel’ star will take on a role first played by James Garner.
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Exiting ‘CBS Evening News’ Producer Cites “Shifting Ideological Expectations” in Parting Message
Eleven staffers on the newscast have taken buyouts offered in late January.
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Fox Taps ‘Special Forces’ EP Sophie Leonard to Lead Unscripted
She’ll lead the division that supplies a large percentage of the network’s programming.
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Thandiwe Newton, Ncuti Gatwa Board Michaela Coel’s ‘First Day on Earth’ at HBO and BBC
Maxine Peake and Danny Sapani have also joined the cast of Coel’s follow-up to ‘I May Destroy You.’
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TV Ratings: Super Bowl LX Falls Just Shy of All-Time Record
Nearly 125 million people watched the game, and Bad Bunny’s halftime show drew 128 million.
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Peter Friedlander, Katherine Pope Among Six Joining Peabody Awards Board
Ravi Nandan, Amy Israel, Amy Entelis and Carolyn Ryan have also been added to the board.
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