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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 actor who has a special connection to the “Dr. Who” franchise will be part of the BBC’s "Dr. Who" Christmas special, reports Deadline.com. The actor is Richard E. Grant — he and fellow actor Tom Ward have been added…
Music mogul Dr. Dre has sealed a script development deal with the FX network for a one-hour drama, reports Deadline.com. The show, penned by Sidney Quashie, is set in the contemporary Los Angeles music scene in the places where it…
Sharon Osbourne made good on threats to walk away from her job as a judge on NBC’s "America’s Got Talent," and she made clear that she has a beef with the network over its treatment of her son Jack Osbourne,…
A producer on CBS’s "60 Minutes" who was on the show for more than two decades and was at CBS for more than 40 years has died, The New York Times reports. Esther Kartiganer, 74, died Wednesday of a heart…
A well-known television and film actress is accused of her third hit-and-run traffic incident in the past few months, TMZ.com reports. “A Los Angeles woman filed a police report yesterday afternoon claiming Amanda Bynes rear-ended her and then, after a…
Today’s TVWeek Open Mic blog begins, "Watching the summer Olympics in Great Britain this year is a fascinating television experience"; please click here to continue reading.
Elton John didn’t pull his punches in a TV interview when the subject of Madonna came up, the U.K. paper The Sun reports. Elton called the Material Girl a “f—ing fairground stripper” and worse in the interview, adding that her…
Recent news events were in the spotlight at “The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne,” and in some cases it may have been too soon. NBC News reports that a couple of bits involving roast regular Jeffrey Ross raised a few…
NBC scrapped plans to air a preview of its new fall drama "Revolution" on Saturday night, instead opting to air a shorter preview tonight, Monday, reports Deadline.com. The network originally planned to air the six-minute preview of the J.J. Abrams…
MTV has placed an order for a second season of a reality show that is a spinoff of the network’s franchise show “Jersey Shore,” B&C reports. The show is "Snooki & JWoww," starring Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWoww” Farley….