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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.
Oprah Winfrey will get her own section on a popular website as part of a deal between Winfrey’s OWN cable channel and the website, The Huffington Post, Advertising Age reports. The section will include content created and aggregated by writers…
"Spinal Tap" star and mockumentary director Christopher Guest is working on a television project, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Guest, who played Nigel Tufnel in 1984’s "This Is Spinal Tap," is working with his British cohort Jim Piddock, who…
Sony Pictures Television has issued a talking-points memo to the cast and representatives of NBC’s "Community," after the studio abruptly fired showrunner Dan Harmon on Friday, replacing him with David Guarascio and Moses Port, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live…
A pair of Academy Award heavyweights will take the stage when the AFI Life Achievement Award is handed out, with Meryl Streep on hand to present the honor to Shirley MacLaine. The award will be presented at a black-tie gala…
Tuesday was a big night for performance competitions, with Fox airing this season’s performance finale of “American Idol” while ABC put up the two-hour performance finale of “Dancing with the Stars” and NBC banked on its “America’s Got Talent” franchise….
We may not have seen the last of a heavily hyped network drama that crashed and burned on broadcast television this season. Deadline.com reports that ABC’s “Pan Am” could take flight again on Amazon, which is looking to try its…
In anticipation of the role Johnny Depp will play in a high-profile upcoming project, the actor received an unusual honor, Reuters reports. Depp, 48, became an honorary member of the Comanche Nation, an honor associated with his upcoming portrayal of…
A British television personality told a media ethics inquiry today in London that CNN talk host Piers Morgan gave him a lesson in how to hack phones back when Morgan was involved with the U.K. Mirror newspaper, AP reports. Jeremy…
The U.S. Postal Service announced today that first-class stamps will be issued honoring four great American film directors and their most noteworthy pictures, reports TheWrap.com. The directors are Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston and Billy Wilder, and the stamp…
The media industry sent a clear signal to cable operators today at the Cable Show, being put on in Boston this week by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Deadline.com reports. The message: Speed up the arrival of a “TV…