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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.
CBS and Time Warner Cable are taking their problems public, with each starting a campaign to make the other company look bad as discussions over a new distribution deal reached an impasse, reports Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times….
An actress who co-starred with Oprah Winfrey in the 1985 Steven Spielberg feature "The Color Purple" had harsh words for Winfrey in a tape posted by TMZ.com, which you can hear below. "Rae Dawn Chong just UNLOADED on the talk…
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has issued a statement condemning the show that received more Emmy nominations than any other show this year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the conservative group is targeting FX’s "American Horror Story:…
A popular fantasy trilogy has been optioned by New Regency Productions and 20th Century Fox Television for a TV project, reports Deadline.com. The book series is "The Kingkiller Chronicle." The novels, by Patrick Rothfuss, are about a young man named…
The CW’s "Arrow" has cast a love interest for Arrow. TheWrap.com reports that the title character, played by Stephen Arnell, will be setting his sights on Caity Lotz, star of the 2012 horror film "The Pact" and also previously seen…
After Hulu called off its sale and announced plans to invest $750 million in the company, the streaming site’s next goal appears to be boosting its competitiveness with Netflix — and a key step in reaching that goal is "The…
Most syndicated programs were down and several access magazines dropped to season lows for the week ended July 7, as viewers turned off the TV for the long July 4th weekend, B&C reports. "Entertainment Tonight," from CBS Television Distribution, dropped…
Taryn Manning has received a promotion on Netflix’s "Orange Is the New Black," reports Deadline.com. Series producer Lionsgate promoted Manning to a series regular for the show’s second season, which was ordered last month. Manning plays Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, a…
TV Land has ordered 10 more episodes of an original comedy series. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the cable channel increased its order for "The Exes," with its current third season performing 9% ahead of its previous season…
With the Emmy nomination he received Thursday, one composer moved a step closer to achieving an EGOT — the acronym that stands for Emmy-Grammy-Oscar-Tony, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The composer is Alan Menken, who has won Oscars for his…