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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.
The Indian actor who became the first Bollywood superstar after a string of successful performances as a romantic lead has died, the Associated Press reports. Rajesh Khanna, 69, died following a brief illness. Khanna died at his home in Mumbai…
A famed Major League Baseball player and manager will be the star of a reality program on TLC, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. "Pete Rose and Kiana Kim Family Project," the working title for the series, will follow the 71-year old…
Jon Stewart returned to "The Daily Show" Monday night and blasted his bosses at Viacom for pulling the company’s shows from online sites — and the next day the company decided to put its programs back online, including "The Daily…
A deal to restore Viacom’s cable networks to DirecTV’s roughly 20 million customers is drawing closer, reports Bloomberg, citing DirecTV’s head of content. “There’s been progress,” Derek Chang, DirecTV’s executive vice president of content, strategy and development, tells the news…
“Mockingbird Lane,” NBC’s reboot of "The Munsters" from Bryan Fuller, will tap into Universal’s library of classic monsters, adding characters such as the Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon to the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "’Once…
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh indicated on his show Tuesday that the producers of Warner Bros.’ latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” are secretly trying to brainwash film goers, Deadline.com reports. Limbaugh’s main problem with the movie appears to…
The off-network rights to NBC’s "Minute to Win It" have been sold to a cable network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. GSN will air four episodes in a four-hour block on Tuesday nights, starting on July 24, with the network…
Discovery Channel announced today that it has appointed a new head of programming, Deadline.com reports. The channel named Scott Lewers as senior vice president of programming. Lewers will be based at the company’s Silver Spring headquarters and will report to…
20th Century Fox Television has signed "Zombieland" director Ruben Fleischer to an overall pod deal, which will allow him to develop, direct and executive produce comedy and drama projects, reports TheWrap.com. Fleischer will also create a production company based at…
A Grammy Award-winning singer has signed on for the upcoming season of NBC’s “The Voice,” where she will be part of Adam Levine’s team, Rolling Stone reports. The new team member is R&B star Mary J. Blige, who will be…