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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 Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 14,253.77, topping the previous record high in 2007 — and other benchmarks aren’t far behind," writes our friend David Lieberman at Deadline.com. The story continues: "The widespread momentum contributed to the continuing…
Earlier today we ran a story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper about the local NBC affiliate there, WKYC-TV, pre-empting part of NBC’s Thrusday prime-time lineup recently to run a 21-year-old episode of "Matlock," starring Andy Griffith. Brooke Spectorsky, the president…
On a night of generally down ratings for the broadcast networks, the top-rated show of Monday’s prime time in the key 18-49 demo was the freshman Fox drama “The Following,” TVbytheNumbers.com reports, citing Nielsen overnights. Fox won the night, narrowly…
Disney Junior has announced a renewal for a series that is part of Disney Channel’s preschooler-targeted programming block. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the animated show “Sofia the First” will be back for a second season. The series…
A four-time Oscar nominee is among the latest cast additions for TNT’s upcoming Geena Davis project. Deadline.com reports that the untitled bounty hunter drama pilot has added Enrico Colantoni (“Flashpoint”), Gloria Reuben (“ER”) and four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason…
A longtime cast member on NBC’s “Law & Order” will replace the famed rocker who was set to play Marvin Gaye in the TV biopic “Sexual Healing,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jesse L. Martin, who played NYPD Det. Ed…
By Chuck Ross — The NBC station in the nation’s 18th-largest market, Gannett’s WKYC-TV in Cleveland, "pulled three of the network’s Thursday shows, replacing them with a two-hour ‘Matlock’ episode from 1992," reports Mark Dawidziak in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The…
Dozens of television outlets, including CNN, Fox News and NBC’s "Today," were taken in by a baby-naming hoax, TVNewser.com reports. The hoax is the latest in a series of stories that have been reported as true by television news but…
CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, speaking at an investors’ conference, had some bad news for fans of Showtime’s serial-killer drama "Dexter": The show’s upcoming eighth season will apparently be its last, according to Deadline.com. Moonves referred to the eighth season…
Barbara Walters returned to "The View" Monday and pointed fingers about her run-in with chicken pox, which left her in the hospital and forced her to take a six-week medical leave, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 83-year-old said a…