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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 CNN show bowed this week to lukewarm ratings. TheWrap.com reports that the cable news channel’s new morning show "New Day" drew 247,000 total viewers, and 95,000 in the 25-54 demographic, for its premiere Monday. The numbers represent gains…
A new series produced by Wendy Williams has been greenlighted by Oxygen, reports Deadline.com. The reality show, "Secret Celebrity," is produced by T Group Productions, and Williams will executive produce as part of her first-look deal with Oxygen. The project…
HBO has passed on a project co-written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and his wife, Ayelet Waldman, reports TheWrap. The project is the period drama pilot "Hobgoblin." The project, described as "Inglourious Basterds" with magic, is set during World…
T Bone Burnett, who has been working as executive music producer for ABC’s “Nashville,” won’t return to the country-music drama for its second season, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. Burnett is booked with a slate of other film, TV…
Two major reality franchises each ran into ratings snags in a head-to-head clash Monday night, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that ABC’s two-hour “The Bachelorette” sank to a season low, while NBC’s two-hour performance…
A visit Monday morning by Russell Brand to the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” got out of hand, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. “After several minutes of giggles, quips at Brand’s expense and, eventually, calling him by the wrong name,…
The Academy Award-winning director of “Silence of the Lambs” has signed on to direct and executive produce an upcoming AMC project. Deadline.com reports that Jonathan Demme has joined the drama pilot “Line of Sight.” “The project, from ‘Brotherhood’ creator Blake…
After unleashing more than a few unkind words about the previous season of NBC’s “Community,” show creator Dan Harmon — who has been rehired as showrunner — offered an apology for what he called his “very un-Community” comments, Deadline.com reports….
NBC is bringing aboard a writer/executive producer from “The Simpsons” for an animated holiday project. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network agreed on a deal to have Mike Reiss adapt his best-selling children’s book "How Murray Saved…
The third-season renewal of Lifetime’s drama series "The Client List" is hung up because of a real-life drama involving star Jennifer Love Hewitt’s baby daddy, reports Deadline.com. The network and the show’s producers are trying to decide how to deal…