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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.
One of the trends in this year’s presidential election seems to be candidates using television material until the rights holders ask them to stop. President Obama was asked recently by NBC to stop using unauthorized footage from NBC news, as…
The lineup has been released for the upcoming “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice,” along with a batch of former “Celebrity Apprentice” winners who will be on the show as advisers, the Los Angeles Times reports. The piece reports: “The lineup for the…
A football commentator who covered the college game for ESPN for the past 26 years has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carroll Hoff “Beano” Cook died Thursday in his sleep at 81. Known for his colorful, folksy style, Cook…
Viewers of Fox’s “The X Factor” apparently got the wrong impression from a “Judges’ Homes” segment on Wednesday’s episode, prompting the show to issue a clarification of sorts, TheWrap.com reports. The segment gave the impression that it was showcasing the…
Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, said in a clip featured in Lifetime’s new reality show "The Houstons: On Our Own" that she’s engaged to her “adopted brother,” Nick Gordon, reports the New York Post. “’We’re engaged,’ a giggling Bobbi says…
"How could [Lance Armstrong], the world’s greatest cyclist, always in the cross hairs of doping officials, never fail a drug test if he was doping," asks a report in The New York Times, which continues, "An explanation emerged Wednesday, when the…
With the third-season premiere of the AMC hit "The Walking Dead" slated for Oct. 14, subscribers to Dish Network — which dropped the network in June — are receiving a make-good of sorts from Dish: a free scary movie every…
The “Jurassic Park IV” sequel, in the works from a team that includes executive producer Steven Spielberg, director Joe Johnston, writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, won’t be out for a while yet…
The former management company for Steven Tyler has sued his current attorney, alleging she botched his contract negotiation with "American Idol," according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. Kovac Media Group filed a suit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court…
Michael Bolton is working on a comedy project for ABC, called "Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life," according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. Bolton is slated to star as a fictionalized version of himself in the half-hour show,…