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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.
Details are coming together for Joy Behar’s upcoming show, which will premiere next month, TVNewser.com reports. The Current TV show, to be called "Joy Behar: Say Anything," will debut Sept. 4, the story reports. The show will have "no agenda…
The co-owner of The Hollywood Reporter is one of two final bidders for Variety, reports the New York Post. Jimmy Finkelstein, through his role as chairman of Prometheus Global Media, is one of the suitors for the entertainment trade publication,…
"Anderson," the daytime talk show starring CNN fixture Anderson Cooper, will be overhauled by Warner Bros. for the show’s second season, including a new name and new features, reports B&C. The new name will be "Anderson Live," reflecting that the…
Cuba Gooding Jr. has responded to a New Orleans arrest warrant that was issued for the Oscar-winning actor, the Los Angeles Times reports. As we reported yesterday, a warrant for municipal battery was issued in response to an alleged incident…
Gore Vidal, 86, "died Tuesday [night] at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia, said [Vidal’s] nephew Burr Steers," reports the Los Angeles Times. In Vidal’s obituary by Tina Fineberg of the Associated Press, she writes, "Along with…
NBC’s ratings juggernaut Olympics coverage continued to crush the competition in prime time Monday night, with most of the broadcast competition staying out of it by airing repeat programming. The few rival broadcast nets who did try out fresh programming…
Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is reportedly wanted for arrest in New Orleans on a warrant stemming from a bar incident early today, according to E! Online. Gooding is accused of pushing around a bartender in a confrontation in the…
The rap icon formerly known as Snoop Dogg — who says from now on his name is Snoop Lion — has reinvented himself, CBS News reports. Why? Because he’s now a reggae artist, having had his eyes opened by a…
After a brief trial run last year, VH1 has decided to bring back a concept that first appeared in the 1990s and earned a devoted following, UPI reports. The concept is “Pop Up Video,” which returns to VH1 starting next…
Producer Carlton Cuse, best known for his work on ABC’s iconic drama "Lost," plans to bring a very un-Hitchcock spin to “Bates Motel,” A&E’s reboot of "Psycho," reports TV Guide. The 10-episode series will be a prequel to the action…