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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.
"A man is suing Google after a precarious picture of him showed up on the company’s Street View service," TG Daily reports. The article continues, "Google now blurs faces of people that happen to be in the line of fire,…
The first witness took the stand Thursday in Nicollette Sheridan’s wrongful termination case against ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” as the actress recounted an alleged physical attack by show creator Marc Cherry, EW.com reports. Sheridan testified that the trouble started after a…
Conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart, who died suddenly this week at 43, had told friends he was close to getting a show on CNN that would have pitted him against his political opposite, former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, the U.K.’s Daily…
The part of Janet Leigh, the star of “Psycho,” has been cast in “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The victim of the famous shower scene will be played by Scarlett Johansson, the story…
"Apple is pushing ahead with plans to launch a streaming TV service by Christmas — despite making little headway in its negotiations with content providers," writes our friend Claire Atkinson in the New York Post. According to the article: "Apple’s…
A forecast examining the outlook for cable and satellite TV contains some good news for subscription-based programming providers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The report, “Cable/Digital Broadcast Satellite Businesses Are Healthy, Even With Tough Housing Environment,” by Barclays Capital analyst…
A sports anchor for a major-market TV station has been suspended over remarks he made about a high-profile female race car driver, Yahoo Sports reports. Ross Shimabuku of San Diego’s Fox 5 News offered some unpleasantries about racer Danica Patrick…
A “Friends” reunion is in the works at NBC, where one of the stars of the long-running hit sitcom has been lined up to star in a sitcom pilot that’s being written by Scott Silveri, who was a writer on…
The medical examiner’s office in Martin County, Fla., has determined the cause of death for former Monkees band member Davy Jones, the AP reports. The autopsy, which was completed today, reveals that the onetime teen idol died of a heart…
Following in the tradition of Lucille Ball, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal, a veteran TV actress will be roasted at the annual Friars Club roast, reports ETOnline.com. The actress is Betty White. On May 16, White will be…