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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.
Cable network AMC is resurrecting a canceled drama series, according to a report in Variety. AMC is bringing back “The Killing” after the show flirted with a move to Netflix. Showrunner Veena Sud and executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole…
A CBS affiliate has banned coverage of Lindsay Lohan in the station’s news reports after the news director asked viewers whether they wanted a halt to stories about the troubled starlet, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Washington, D.C., station WUSA-TV’s…
ABC’s “Good Morning America” is in hot water with some parents over a report about the children’s toy "The Elf on the Shelf," reports the New York Post’s Page Six. The elf doll is supposed to "travel" to the North…
A celebrity attorney who’s a familiar face in the media has turned down a request from former “Jersey Shore” star Angelina Pivarnick to pick up Pivarnick as a client for a potential lawsuit against MTV. TMZ.com reports that attorney Gloria…
Bob Costas sparked a debate Sunday night when he spoke in favor of gun control during halftime of the Cowboys-Eagles game, reports The New York Times. His comments came after Saturday’s murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs starting linebacker Jovan Belcher,…
A veteran character actor who appeared on dozens of TV shows including "Mannix" and "The New Phil Silvers Show" has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pat Renella was 83. Renella, who built his reputation playing gangsters and hoods, portrayed…
As if Lindsay Lohan didn’t already have enough problems, the IRS has reportedly seized all of her bank accounts in an effort to collect her unpaid federal taxes, reports TMZ.com. The government filed tax liens against Lohan for 2009 and…
"News Corp. [has] said that it is shutting down The Daily, its ambitious but expensive attempt to create an iPad newspaper, on Dec. 15," reports our friend Nat Ives at Advertising Age. The article continues, "Following layoffs of a third of its…
Don Rhymer, a writer behind the CBS comedy "Evening Shade" and the 20th Century Fox Animation hit "Rio," has died, reports Deadline.com. He was 51 and died of cancer on Wednesday. Rhymer wrote for both TV and feature films, with…
News Corp. said News International CEO Tom Mockridge will leave the company at year-end, reports Deadline.com. The departure isn’t surprising given that Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is in line to take over the publishing unit when it’s…