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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.
Lifetime has decided to take a pass on a pilot from Melanie Griffith, Deadline.com reports. The drama pilot, "American Housewife," stars Griffith and is executive produced by the actress and her husband and partner Antonio Banderas. Griffith plays an apparently…
Despite losing almost two-thirds of its market value last year, Netflix gave Chief Executive Reed Hastings a 68% bump in compensation, reports Deadline.com. While Hastings’ salary slipped 3.7% to $500,000, his stock option awards rose almost 76% to $8.8 million,…
Syfy’s new drama series "Defiance" has cast Mia Kirshner of "The Vampire Diaries" and Fionnula Flanagan of "Lost," reports Deadline.com. The project, set in the future, tracks the survivors of a universal war living in a frontier boomtown called Defiance,…
In a move that ended the 15-year-plus Disney career of one of the company’s top executives, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross has left the company, according to a number of media reports. Here’s what Brooks Barnes of the New…
The next iPhone from Apple is expected in October, and among the innovations will be a redesigned body made of an exotic alloy, ABC News reports. Citing Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, the report says the new device will run…
Jimmy Fallon will take his NBC late-night show to North Carolina next week for an appearance by President Obama, The New York Times reports. For Fallon, it’s a sign of the rising stature of his “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”…
Compuware’s March 2012 study on the use of tablets versus desktop shows that many tablet users are disappointed in the performance of their devices, according to BizReport.com. Seven of ten tablet users expect websites to load as fast on the…
Fox came out on top on another night when shows on all four major broadcast networks hit series lows in the Nielsen overnights for Thursday, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. Fox’s “American Idol” matched its series low for a results show with a…
Since the director of the megahit “Hunger Games” declined to helm the movie’s sequel “Catching Fire,” the principals behind the series have been scrambling to find a replacement. That search is apparently over now, with the team settling on Francis…
Tyra Banks fired three of the longest-running personalities on her show "America’s Next Top Model," letting go co-stars J. Alexander, Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. The three mentors were told Thursday morning that…