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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.
The top five broadcast networks have ordered almost 100 pilot episodes for the start of the 2013-14 television season, up significantly from a year earlier, TV critic Mike Hale writes in The New York Times. And last year, Hale notes,…
As "Today" struggles with losing its morning dominance to ABC’s "Good Morning America," NBCUniversal has tapped a new executive to take over ad sales for the NBC show, reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. David Barrington, a vice president at NBC…
Emmy-winning actor Beau Bridges has been cast in a CBS comedy project. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Bridges is joining the untitled CBS comedy pilot from "Raising Hope" creator Greg Garcia. The multicamera comedy will portray Bridges as…
HBO’s "Game of Thrones" tapped a well-known rock group to record a rowdy tavern song that recurs throughout George R.R. Martin’s books. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the Hold Steady will record the song, "The Bear and the…
CNBC is rolling out its new CNBC Prime entertainment block this week, including a Tuesday evening block built on reality shows, TVNewser reports. CNBC Chairman Mark Hoffman said last week that the new lineup, including the reality shows "Car Chasers"…
National Geographic Channel has given the green light to "In the Name of Science," a pilot from Nerdist Industries, reports Deadline.com. The show is hosted by Jonah Ray and will feature the re-creation of famous historical science experiments, the piece…
"Roy Brown Jr., a car designer for Ford Motor whose signature creation…became a synonym for bold, bad ideas not long after it was introduced in 1957, died on Feb. 24 in Michigan," The New York Times reported yesterday, March 5, 2013….
"An all-puppet episode of ‘Community,’ featuring extensive use of the performers in puppet form, will air in April and include a cameo from Jason Alexander (though not as a puppet)," reports our friend Ray Richmond at Deadline.com. The news was…
Jon Stewart is taking an extended break from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” and if you haven’t already heard the reason, it will probably surprise you: Stewart is taking the summer off to direct a movie, according to The Hollywood…