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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.
Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown is executive producing a telefilm for HBO about the literary icon Norman Mailer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The untitled project will look at Mailer’s relationship with convicted killer Jack Abbott, who helped Mailer…
The man who has been described as "the most famous art critic in the world" has died at 74 after a long illness. Robert Hughes, the longtime art critic for Time magazine and the creator of the television documentary "The…
Production starts today on new episodes of "Arrested Development," with the entire cast of the cult Fox comedy in final negotiations to join the project, reports Deadline.com. The revival of the show is being produced by Netflix. The actors —…
Apple said it will drop YouTube with the next version of its operating system for the popular iPhone and iPad devices, a move that spotlights the competition between Apple and Google, the owner of YouTube, reports Bloomberg. Apple has included…
One of the regulars from the long-running NBC sitcom "Frasier" has been cast in the second season of TBS’s "Men at Work," reports TVLine.com. Peri Gilpin will have a recurring role in the comedy, playing Alex, a new boss at…
Another sport will be getting its own channel within the next few weeks. From the founder of the Tennis Channel and the Ski Channel, next up is the Surf Channel, TheWrap.com reports. The channel is the brainchild of Steve Bellamy,…
The fiancee of Rosie O’Donnell, Michelle Rounds, has a serious medical condition, and it has resulted in the postponement of their planned wedding, reports Entertainment Tonight. The condition is desmoid tumors, a painful condition that is similar to cancer, the…
Scott Baio and Erin Moran may have played sweethearts on the “Happy Days” spinoff “Joanie Loves Chachi,” but apparently there’s no love lost between the two actors these days. While promoting his new Nick at Nite show “See Dad Run,”…
NBC’s Olympics coverage continued to rack up huge ratings in prime time Sunday night, leading to historic lows elsewhere on the dial. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that NBC averaged a 9.1 rating in the key 18-49 demo for the four hours of…
Feature film director McG ("Charlie’s Angels") has received a put pilot commitment from ABC for a drama, Deadline.com reports. McG, who produced "The O.C." for Fox, is producing the project, a prime-time soap to be written by Byron Balasco ("Detroit…