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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.
Charlie Sheen’s character on "Two and a Half Men" will return to the program, although Charlie Harper won’t be played by Sheen, but by Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s the Live Feed blog. During the…
Rumored to be the inspiration for a character on NBC’s "30 Rock," a cable news anchor tells the Detroit News that she was "constantly angling to get on the show." Fox Business anchor Melissa Francis, said to be the inspiration…
A juror in the "Desperate Housewives" case, which ended in a mistrial this week after the panel said it was deadlocked, said, "There was no smoking gun" to prove either side’s case with certainty, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The…
After complaints from critics, "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner says he’s making a change to an episode in the AMC show’s fifth season — replacing a song because it wasn’t released until six months after the episode takes place, reports…
The star of “Terra Nova,” the time-traveling drama whose fate is still undetermined after the show was canceled by Fox, has another job lined up, Deadline.com reports. CBS’s untitled Ralph Lamb pilot has cast "Terra Nova" star Jason O’Mara, the…
An actor who voiced one of the original characters in the animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" films is charging director Michael Bay with "sodomizing" the franchise in his upcoming movie, reports TMZ.com. Actor Robbie Rist, who voiced the character Michaelangelo,…
The season finale of a drama series that has been shattering basic cable viewing records added to its record run, with 9 million viewers tuning in to watch the zombie battle in Sunday’s finale of AMC’s "The Walking Dead," reports…
The man who oversees the BBC’s TV channels, radio stations and websites will step down from the broadcaster later this year, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. BBC Director General Mark Thompson, 54, will leave after the Summer Olympic…
Cable channel IFC has given an order for 10 episodes of a single-camera comedy series, Margaret Lyons reports in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The order is for an autobiographical show from "WTF" podcast host Marc Maron, who produced and…
PBS is looking for a sponsor to back an upcoming series, reports our friend Jon Lafayette in B&C. The new show, from the producers of "Antiques Roadshow," is another take on antiques. Called "Market Wars," the show will consist of…