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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.
Jimmy Fallon has a live special coming up. "Jimmy Fallon’s Super Bowl Special" will be seen the night of the big game, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, writes our good friend — and former TVWeek staffer — James Hibberd at…
Roger Werner, the former CEO of ESPN, has stepped down from his current CEO post, reports Multichannel News. Most recently Werner has been the CEO of the Outdoor Channel. Reports Multichannel, "Outdoor Channel named longtime executive Thomas Hornish president and…
CBS TV Studios has inked a deal for a director and executive producer on the upcoming CBS Sherlock Holmes pilot “Elementary,” Deadline.com reports. Michael Cuesta, best known as the director of Showtime’s "Homeland" pilot and as an executive producer on…
One of the female leads has been cast for “Anger Management,” Charlie Sheen’s upcoming FX sitcom, Deadline.com reports. Shawnee Smith will play the ex-wife of Sheen’s character, the story reports. Smith is best known as Ted Danson’s comic foil on…
An actor who played one of the Sweathogs — the students in high school teacher Gabe Kotter’s class on “Welcome Back Kotter” — has died, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on the 1975-79 ABC…
NBC’s "Fear Factor" will air a challenge Monday that is so gag-inducing it caused network executives to debate whether they should pull it from the show, reports TMZ.com. The challenge asks contestants to swallow fresh glasses of donkey semen, the…
Pat Sajak apparently got more attention than he anticipated for his comments in a wild interview — which you can see by clicking here. Now the “Wheel of Fortune” host is busy doing damage control, saying he exaggerated claims about…
Twenty-six years after a high school student in a generation-defining 1980s movie became the idol of millions of teenagers by blowing off school, Ferris Bueller may be returning — but in a Super Bowl ad, reports E! Online.com. A 10-second…
One casualty of Demi Moore’s health crisis this week has been her role in “Lovelace,” an upcoming biopic on 1970s porn actress Linda Loveless, in which Moore was set to play Gloria Steinem, MTV reports. Moore had to drop out…
One week after CBS announced orders for two drama pilots, as reported last week, the network has picked up three more drama projects, TVLine.com reports. CBS ordered a pilot based on the "Mommy Track Mysteries" book series by Ayelet Waldman,…