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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.
ABC News is losing an executive who has been with the news division since 1983, TVNewser.com reports. The exec is Tom Nagorski, managing director for international coverage. Nagorski, who joined ABC News as an intern on "20/20,” is leaving the…
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An actor known for his work on "House" has signed on for his first television job since the long-running Fox drama ended, reports Deadline.com. Robert Sean Leonard will appear in a five-episode story arc on TNT’s "Falling Skies," playing a…
One of Rupert Murdoch’s children has announced no interest in succeeding the 82-year-old chief of News Corp. "In a Q&A session this morning, Elisabeth Murdoch told the Edinburgh TV Festival, ‘I really harbor no ambition for that top job,’ "…
Real-life men and women who work in the advertising business on Madison Avenue are very uphappy about escalating retrans battles such as the dispute between Dish Network and AMC, which is keeping TV’s "Mad Men" off that satellite supplier, reports…
ABC Family has picked up a drama pilot about a multi-ethnic family from Jennifer Lopez, reports Deadline.com. The network also picked up a pilot executive produced by Gavin Polone of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the story notes. His one-hour drama is…
Two months after AMC went dark on satellite broadcaster Dish, the cable network has debuted a new round of attack ads — but it’s unclear whether Dish subscribers will see the ads, reports Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times’…
ABC has ordered two comedy projects from writers of ABC’s "The Middle" and MTV’s "Awkward," reports Deadline.com. Vijal Patel of "The Middle" has sold a semi-autobiographical project called "Square Roots," which follows a young married couple as they deal with…
TLC has ordered a new series from the producers of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. TLC ordered eight episodes of "Cheer Perfection," a docuseries that tracks cheerleading coach Alisha Dunlap as she trains…
"Famed cyclist Lance Armstrong faces the prospect of losing seven Tour de France titles and his fabled championship legacy after he ended his fight against charges of illegal doping," CNN reports. The story continues, "Armstrong, who has consistently denied allegations…