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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 NBC drama series "Dracula" has cast its Van Helsing. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the role of the legendary monster hunter Abraham Van Helsing will go to "The River" actor Thomas Kretschmann. The series is set in…
A former on-air personality whose reports appeared on KTLA-TV and other Tribune stations is suing for breach of contract and age discrimination, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. Known to television viewers as Kurt the CyberGuy, Kurt Knutsson sued…
The CW has renewed two long-running shows along with its freshman drama "Arrow," reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The other two renewals are for "Supernatural" and "The Vampire Diaries." "Supernatural" will return for a ninth season of the Winchester brothers’ adventures…
After years of negotiations with a number of television networks vying to score the first interview with Amanda Knox — the American exchange student to Italy who was convicted of murdering her housemate in 2009 — a winner has emerged….
On the heels of the high-profile 2012 Lifetime TV movie "Liz & Dick," which featured Lindsay Lohan portraying screen icon Elizabeth Taylor, comes news of another TV movie about Taylor and her ex-husband Richard Burton. Deadline.com reports that the BBC…
ABC and Univision have picked a name for the new channel on which they’re collaborating. TVNewser.com reports that the channel, which is geared toward Hispanics, will be called Fusion. The network will also use the word Fusión, with an accent…
More flesh-eating, flesh-rotting fun for viewers and AMC last Sunday night, Feb. 10, 2013. The mid-season three premiere of "The Walking Dead" was "the strongest telecast for a series in basic cable history for adults 18-49 with 7.7 million [viewers],"…
Two series airing Sunday night on ABC sank to all-time series lows, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that on a night when CBS distanced itself from the pack on the strength of the Grammys, ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”…
Beginning April 22, the cable universe will include a new network, as an existing network will be rebranded. Deadline.com reports that NBCUniversal will officially rebrand the current G4 network as the Esquire Network, as in Esquire magazine, the venerable American…
Syfy announced that it has signed a deal to adapt a Hugo-winning novel, and the project brings together a number of heavyweights of the world of science fiction. Deadline.com reports that the cable channel is adapting the novel "The Man…