More from Rick Porter
‘The Bear’ Premieres to Its Biggest Audience Yet, Hulu Says
The Bear is eating for Hulu. The Disney-owned streamer says the third season premiere of the Emmy winner racked up 5.4 million views worldwide over its first four days of release (it premiered June 27). The show streams on Disney+ outside the United States and hasn’t premiered in every territory yet. That 5.4 million figure […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Bridgerton’ Reign Continues
The rule of Bridgerton — and Shonda Rhimes — on the streaming charts continued into the first two days of June. Bridgerton declined about 37 percent in viewing time from a week earlier, but the Regency-era drama still ranked No. 1 overall on Nielsen’s charts for May 27-June 2 with 1.38 billion minutes of watch time on […]
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TV Premiere Dates 2024: The Complete Guide
Hundreds of TV series — new and old, scripted and not, on streaming, broadcast and cable outlets — will premiere in the next 12 months. As production ramped up in the final weeks 2023 following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, pipelines started to get refilled, which could lead to a crush of premieres in […]
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Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock to Lead Netflix’s ‘Sirens’
Netflix has found the three leads for its upcoming limited series Sirens. Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock will star in the series, which comes from Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler and LuckyChap, which also produced Maid. Fahy (The White Lotus) and Alcock (House of the Dragon) will play sisters drawn into the world […]
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Amazon Lands Idaho Murders Doc Series From Directors Liz Garbus, Matthew Galkin
Prime Video is taking a big step into true crime. The Amazon-owned streamer has ordered a documentary series about the 2022 University of Idaho murders and the investigation, arrest and upcoming trial of Bryan Kohberger in connection with the case. The series, from Skydance Television and Story Syndicate, is based on an upcoming nonfiction book […]
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Stephanie Leifer, Former ABC Signature Executive, Dies at 56
Stephanie Leifer, a longtime executive at ABC and studio ABC Signature, has died. She was 56. Leifer died of cancer on Thursday. She spent a combined 28 years at ABC Signature (and its forerunner, ABC Studios) and ABC, beginning at the network in 1994 as an assistant in the network’s TV movie department. “Stephanie was […]
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Will Forte Boards Tina Fey’s ‘Four Seasons’ Series at Netflix
Will Forte is headed back to Netflix for his next series role — and reuniting with his former Saturday Night Live castmate Tina Fey. Forte, who’s coming off the comedic thriller Bodkin at Netflix, has joined the cast of The Four Seasons at the streamer. The series, based on the 1981 film of the same […]
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TV Ratings: Biden-Trump Debate Draws 51M Viewers, Way Below 2020
The first debate face-off (of the 2024 election cycle, at least) between President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump drew a big audience — but not nearly as big as their 2020 debates. The 99-minute debate, produced by CNN but aired on 16 other networks, averaged 51.27 million viewers, according to final same-day ratings from […]
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‘Daily Show’ Veterans Decry Loss of Clip Archive After Comedy Central Website Gutted: “S**t Ain’t Right”
A corporate decision to scrub Comedy Central’s website of much of its content isn’t sitting well with a number of former and current Daily Show staffers. The sites for Comedy Central and fellow Paramount-owned cable channels CMT, Paramount Network and TV Land, were largely stripped of content this week; what’s left mostly redirects users to […]
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AMC Nabs Silicon Valley Drama From ‘Succession,’ ‘Better Call Saul’ Alum
AMC, which chronicled the early days of Silicon Valley in its series Halt and Catch Fire, is headed back to that part of the world. The cable network (and sibling streamer AMC+) have ordered a series set in present-day Silicon Valley, centering on the falling out of a tech CEO and someone in his orbit. […]
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HBO, BBC Snag Richard Gadd’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Follow-Up
Richard Gadd will take his next series to HBO and the BBC. The two outlets will co-produce Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer, which was a breakout success for Netflix and sparked waves of conversation over its based-on-a-true-story tale of an alleged stalker of Gadd. The new series is currently titled Lions and will follow a […]
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Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites
Following the unexpected shuttering of the MTV News website earlier this week, Paramount has now largely cleaned house on the sites for several more of its cable channels, in a potential cost-cutting move. As of Wednesday afternoon, the sites for Comedy Central, CMT, Yellowstone airer Paramount Network and TV Land were instead directing users to […]
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