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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.
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced today that it has locked up deals for a broadcast weekend off-net window for “Rizzoli & Isles” in 95% of the country for a fall 2015 premiere. Ken Werner, President, and Rick Meril, Executive…
Al Jazeera America, which is readying for its launch next month, announced the hiring of a veteran of TV news operations including CNN, CBS News and ABC News. The channel named Sheila MacVicar as a correspondent for the prime-time current…
Two cable news channels are under fire over their coverage of the trial of George Zimmerman in the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The U.K. publication The Daily Mail reports that MSNBC and HLN are getting heat for televising…
Hollywood responded to news of the death of "Glee" star Cory Monteith with an outpouring of grief and sympathy on social media sites, USA Today reports. As previously reported, the 31-year-old actor, who played Finn on the Fox musical series,…
OWN is upping the ante on its Lindsay Lohan bet, announcing plans for not only an Oprah Winfrey interview with the headline-magnet actress, but also an eight-part documentary series starring Lohan, Deadline.com reports. Winfrey’s exclusive interview with Lohan is set…
NBC’s high-profile fall comedy "The Michael J. Fox Show" has cast a high-profile actress as a rival character to Fox’s news correspondent, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Anne Heche will play Susan Rodriguez-Jones, an anchor at NBC 4, where Fox’s character…
Jimmy Kimmel, 45, married his longtime girlfriend Molly McNearney, 35, on Saturday, reports USA Today. The wedding was held at the Ojai Valley Inn and included guests such as Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, along with Ben Affleck, Jennifer…
CBS has added a disclaimer to its reality show "Big Brother," which differs from the traditional TV warnings about violence or nudity in that it flags the presence of prejudice, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The warning reads, "’Big Brother’ is…
Syfy garnered a lot of attention for "Sharknado," but the drama pulled in a relatively small audience given the amount of social-media attention the movie drew, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The original movie drew 1.4 million viewers on Thursday night,…
A former "Storage Wars" star has been ordered to pay $122,692 of the legal bills for A&E, after he sued the network and Original Productions with allegations that the show was staged, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. Dave…