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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.
An actress whose real-life baseball talent helped her land a role as a star pitcher in the 2005 remake of “Bad News Bears” has been killed in a traffic collision, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sammi Kane Kraft, whose performance…
NBC has scored a ratings achievement that it hasn’t accomplished in almost 10 years. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network pulled off a three-day winning streak in the key demographic of adults 18 to 49. "The last…
Yesterday, the U.S. Doping Agency made its case against Lance Armstrong. What’s very clear to TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross is that now, more than ever, Armstrong needs Oprah. Click here to read Ross’s blog entry.
NBC, trying to figure out a way to recoup its $10 million investment in its ill-fated reboot of "The Munsters," will air the project’s pilot as a Halloween special, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pilot, which was in development…
On the heels of a well-documented ratings struggle for Viacom’s Nickelodeon cable network, another Viacom-owned cable channel appears to be in trouble in the ratings. Citing a report from Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Todd Juenger, Joe Flint reports…
"Parks and Recreation" employee Jerry Gergich is often the butt of the department’s jokes, but the character on the NBC sitcom, played by Jim O’Heir, is getting a knock-out wife. Supermodel Christie Brinkley has been tapped to play his often…
Jay Penske, the new owner of the venerable trade publication Variety, laid out his vision for staffers during a visit Wednesday to Variety’s L.A. headquarters, Deadline.com reports. “According to those present, the gist of what Penske told the assembled group…
A casting call for HBO’s "Game of Thrones" is looking for male amputees, willing to be filmed in a battle where their legs have been injured, reports the New York Post. The casting is for one of the book series’…
An actress known for a number of television roles including “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Third Watch” and “24” will star in the Lifetime pilot "Secret Lives of Wives." Deadline.com reports that the project has cast Kim Raver in a starring role. The…
Miley Cyrus has pulled her name from contention for playing the female lead in "Bonnie & Clyde," a four-hour miniseries in development for History and Lifetime, reports TVLine.com. Cyrus had been in talks to portray Bonnie, and it’s not clear…