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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.
A new Ryan Murphy project in the works at HBO has added an actor known for “Felicity.” Deadline.com reports that Scott Speedman will play one of the lead roles in the drama pilot “Open.” “The project, which Murphy co-wrote with…
MTV has canceled a series. The cable channel made the decision not to pick up a second season of the freshman comedy "Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous," reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The show starred comedian Bo Burnham as a…
The drummer for a band that was one of the most important U.S. groups of the new wave movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s has died. Billboard reports that Alan Myers, the third and most prominent drummer for…
In April 2011, when ABC announced that it was canceling the daytime soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," Oprah Winfrey, a well-known fan of the genre, was deluged by requests to save the shows by airing them on…
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley is reportedly looking for a new executive producer to lift his evening news program from third place, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. Pelley is said to be seeking a replacement for producer…
Al Jazeera America is in negotiations with Soledad O’Brien’s Starfish Media Group about producing long-form programming and other segments for the new cable news network, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. O’Brien formed Starfish Media Group in February when she…
An Emmy-nominated comedy writer who wrote dozens of episodes of the hit late 1970s and 1980s ABC sitcom ‘Three’s Company" has died. Deadline.com reports that George Burditt was 89. Burditt, who also served as executive producer of "Three’s Company" from…
Fox has released its fall schedule, and as is typical for the network, it’s debuting series both earlier and later than its rivals, reports Zap2It. Four nights of programming will air before the official start date of the 2013-14 season,…
Actor Rhys Ifans, known for his work in feature films including "Notting Hill" and "The Amazing Spider-Man," is joining the cast of the CBS drama series "Elementary" in a recurring role. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the Welsh actor will…
The CW has made one of the first buys for the coming development season, with a project based on a Venezuelan telenovela called "Juana la Virgen," reports Deadline.com. The CW’s "Jane the Virgin" project will be written by Jennie Snyder…