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Chuck Ross

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.

NBC Orders Legal Drama From Pair Behind ‘Entourage’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’

NBC has placed a script order for a legal drama with high-profile bloodlines, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network ordered the show from frequent collaborators Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, whose track record includes working together on HBO’s “Entourage”…

Tom Arnold Reportedly Had Agreement That Ex-Wife Roseanne Barr Wouldn’t Badmouth Him in Roast

Tom Arnold reportedly had an agreement that his ex-wife Roseanne Barr wouldn’t badmouth him if he appeared on her Comedy Central roast, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. He also wanted her to say something nice about him, the…

CNN Denies It’s Getting Into the Reality TV Business

Responding to reports that CNN is considering replacing some of its programming with reality shows, the cable news channel offered a clarification, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. CNN said it’s looking into nonfiction original series,…

‘Scrubs’ Mini-Reunion on Tap

A "Scrubs" mini-reunion will take place within the next couple of weeks on a cable comedy series, TVLine.com reports. The TV Land comedy "The Exes" will feature a guest appearance by “Scrubs” alum Zach Braff, who will join former “Scrubs”…

Pioneer in the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, Famed Cosmo Editor and Author Helen Gurley Brown, 90, Dies

"Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of ‘Sex and the Single Girl’ shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but also thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine…

VH1 Announces It’s Pulling the Plug on Show Due to High-Profile Hassle Involving One of Its Stars

An apparent domestic battery incident over the weekend is having repercussions both in television and in the world of pro sports. The incident involving Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson — formerly known as Chad Ochocinco — has led VH1…

Al Freeman Jr., Pioneering African-American Actor — Emmy Winner for Soap ‘One Life to Live’ and Emmy Nominated for ‘Roots: The Next Generations’ — Dead at 78. He Also Played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee’s ‘Malcolm X’

Al Freeman Jr., a pioneering actor and director whose career included winning a Daytime Emmy along with a number of other honors, has died, Playbill reports. He was 78 and died Aug. 9, 2012. Freeman was known for his work in…

Olympian Michael Phelps Takes On a TV Job — and a New Sport

U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, fresh off becoming the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time with 22 medals — including 18 gold — will try to stay out of the water when he takes on a new sport: golf. Businessweek…

NBC Misses the Call on Facebook CEO ‘Mark Zuckerberg’

NBC continues to get attention for its Olympics coverage — and not all of the attention is good. The Los Angeles Times reports that the network had another embarrassing moment during Sunday’s high-profile gold medal men’s basketball game, apparently misidentifying…

Mark Your Calendar: List of Moderators, Dates and Formats for the Upcoming U.S. Presidential and VP Debates

The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the moderators of the upcoming debates for president and vice president of the United States. The moderators of each of the three presidential debates will be, respectively, PBS’s Jim Lehrer for debate No. 1, CNN’s…