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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 latest controversy over a new prime-time show that has been controversial from the outset surrounds why a major marketer pulled its ads from the show. TMZ.com broke the story that Kraft had pulled advertising for its Philadelphia Cream Cheese…
Comedy Central announced three new series today, including one with the network’s master of the roast, Jeff Ross, reports Deadline.com. Ross will star in "The Burn," in which a group of comics will rip apart current events. According to Ross,…
A 30-minute YouTube video, “Kony 2012,” focusing on the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has exploded into what may be an unprecedented Internet movement in the past few days, dominating social networking and video sites, ABC News reports. The site reported…
Now we know what Jerry Bruckheimer’s big-screen revival of "The Lone Ranger" will look like. The producers of the film, which stars Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the Lone Ranger, have released the first publicity photo featuring…
A game show whose TV roots go back to the early 1950s may be resurrected, Joe Adalian reports in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Reality powerhouse FremantleMedia (“American Idol,” “X Factor,” “America’s Got Talent”) has secured the rights to "Name…
The increasingly crowded field of prime-time singing competition shows is about to get even more crowded, as ABC readies its own entry, EW.com reports. “Duets,” the Alphabet Network’s competitor to “American Idol,” “X Factor” and “The Voice,” boasts some serious…
Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur drama "Terra Nova" might not be history after all, even though Fox canceled it this week, Deadline.com reports. Netflix is talking with 20th Century Fox about saving the drama from extinction, according to the report. The talks…
A writer on "Desperate Housewives" contradicted previous testimony from creator Marc Cherry that he had already made a decision to kill off Nicollette Sheridan’s character before he struck her on the set, reports TheWrap.com. Former "Housewives" executive producer and writer…
Speculation has swirled around the fate of the OWN talk show “Rosie” since its host, Rosie O’Donnell, recently put her Chicago home up for sale, with some observers saying it meant the show was over. Not so, The Huffington Post…
"Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner tells The New York Times that he quit during negotiations with AMC over a fifth season for the period drama. "I quit. I had come to terms with the fact that it was over. And…