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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.
Hulu has reached an agreement with CBS to air the network’s catalog of reruns, including shows such as "Medium" and "Numb3rs," reports Bloomberg. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The contract means that Hulu will now provide programming from the…
ABC has bought a cop comedy written and executive produced by "Cougar Town" co-creator Bill Lawrence, reports Deadline.com. The project, "Feel the Force," received a put pilot commitment plus penalty. The show focuses on two female officers who want to…
Cast members of "Jersey Shore" will appear in a special MTV fund raiser to aid in the rebuilding of New Jersey’s coastal regions after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, reports The New York Times’ ArtsBeat. The one-hour fund-raising special will…
A CBS drama series that has traditionally been in the top 20 among broadcast shows is showing signs of weakness in its fourth season. “The Good Wife” slipped to a 1.7 average rating in the key 18-49 demo Sunday night,…
Sharon Osbourne, one of the co-hosts of CBS’s daytime gabfest "The Talk," revealed that she recently had major surgery — a double mastectomy, the AP reports. The procedure was voluntary. Osbourne learned that she carries the gene that increases the…
The USA Network put to rest speculation about the fate of a drama series that had been up in the air, Deadline.com reports. The series is "Political Animals," which originated as a miniseries but which some observers hoped would continue…
Merrilee Patterson Crain, secretary and board member of Crain Communications Inc. and wife of Crain’s TVWeek founder Rance Crain, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. She would have turned 70 on Nov. 27. Mrs. Crain was active in charitable, business and…
Share prices for Time Warner Cable Inc. fell by the largest margin in more than a year after news surfaced that the company experienced a larger-than-expected downturn in video subscribers, BloombergBusinessweek reports. Time Warner Cable, the second-largest U.S. cable-television operator,…
One of television’s most popular villains is set to return to the screen after an eight-year absence, Soap Central reports. Actress Lynn Herring will reprise her role as Lucy Coe on ABC’s daytime stalwart “General Hospital.” The character started out…
A drama series that has been canceled by CBS hasn’t quite gone off the air yet, as the network scheduled two episodes of "Made in Jersey" to air on two Saturdays later this year, reports Deadline.com. The two previously unaired…