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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.
ABC has ordered a project from "Mike & Molly" co-executive producer Cheryl Holliday, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The network ordered "Middle Age Rage" to pilot. According to the logline, the show is about “a middle-aged mother who is fed up…
An Oscar-winning actor — who has also won two Golden Globe Awards — will host "Saturday Night Live" for the first time on Feb. 16, 2013, reports The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. The actor is Christoph Waltz, who just won…
The last living sister of the best-selling female group in pop music history has died. The lead singer of the Andrews Sisters, Patty Andrews, has died at age 94 in Los Angeles, USA Today reports. According to the story, the…
All the contracts have been worked out and the fate of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" is sealed, Deadline.com reports. The series will be back for a ninth season, which will be the show’s last. Season nine…
One of the most famous legs in the history of movies, Mrs. Robinson’s on the poster for the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” belonged not to Anne Bancroft, who played Mrs. Robinson in the film, but to another actress — Linda…
NBC had a difficult time in the ratings Tuesday night, based on Nielsen overnights, with two of its series slipping to season lows in the key 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. Both “Go On” and “The New Normal” hit new lows…
Aaron Sorkin’s ("The West Wing") effort to make his debut as a librettist on Broadway as a part of the musical based on the life of magician Harry Houdini has been derailed by his HBO series "The Newsroom," reports Deadline.com….
A British period drama has been renewed for a second season, reports B&C. Returning in 2014 with eight new episodes will be BBC America’s “Ripper Street.” The show is set in the era of Jack the Ripper. The series debuted…
ABC has given a series order to a new prime-time game show, “Bet on Your Baby,” Deadline.com reports. The network has reportedly ordered eight episodes of the show. “Hosted by Melissa Peterman, co-star of the ABC Family comedy ‘Baby Daddy,’…
As part of the runup to the Oscars — which has seen Ben Affleck’s “Argo” gain what may be unstoppable momentum — the Producers Guild of America added its voice to the chorus of praise for the movie. The producers…