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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 Nat Geo channel is being lobbied to add a disclaimer to an upcoming series, reports the New York Post. A former Boy Scout wants Nat Geo to indicate as part of the show "Are You Tougher Than a Boy…
Actress Heather Locklear, best known for her work on "Dynasty," "Spin City" and "Melrose Place," is joining the legal drama "Franklin & Bash," reports Deadline.com. In the upcoming third season of the TNT show, Locklear will co-star as Rachel King,…
Meredith Vieira is reportedly in talks with NBCUniversal about hosting a syndicated talk show, possibly for a fall 2014 debut, The New York Times’ Media Decoder reports. Vieira’s show could air at 11 a.m. in some markets, which would place…
An actress known for her role on the AMC drama “Breaking Bad” will play Michael J. Fox’s wife in a new NBC comedy series, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. Betsy Brandt, who plays Marie Schrader in the AMC…
Lance Armstrong unequivocally admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs during an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday night — an admission that came after years of aggressively denying allegations, reports CNN.com. At the start of the interview, Winfrey asked him…
Signaling the importance of the television business to the future of the company, Tribune has officially named longtime television executive Peter Liguori as its chief executive officer, reports Bloomberg. Tribune, which emerged from bankruptcy at the end of 2012, is…
Actress Toni Collette is set to star in a new pilot produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for CBS, Deadline.com reports. The network ordered the pilot for the drama project "Hostages." It’s CBS’s first official drama pilot order of the current cycle,…
Fox News has renewed a deal with Karl Rove, keeping him on as a Fox News Channel contributor through the 2016 election, reports Politico.com. Rove joined Fox in 2008, and is one of the network’s most popular commentators, the story…
Jennifer Lopez is unhappy with her People magazine cover, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Lopez, 43, feels the photo makes her look old and haggard, the story says. Whether it’s intentional or not, the cover story on the…
Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham and radio shock jock Howard Stern are on good terms after the “Girls” creator and star called in to Stern’s show and “graciously accepted the shock jock’s apology for the on-air rant he gave last…