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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.
Heather Locklear is under a doctor’s care after being hospitalized earlier this month, reports People.com. The "Melrose Place" star is seeking help after struggling with anxiety and depression, but is not in rehab, the piece adds. Some earlier stories had…
NBC is working on a spinoff of "The Office" focusing on one character from the current show, Deadline.com reports. The project, built around Rainn Wilson’s character Dwight Schrute, is being readied for a possible midseason 2013 debut, the piece says….
Netflix said it regained 610,000 U.S. customers in the fourth quarter, ending the year with 24.4 million customers, reports Bloomberg. The news sent Netflix’s shares surging 16% in extended trading Wednesday, the piece notes. The customer acquisitions signal that Chief…
A sitcom from Conan O’Brien, with “Bridesmaids” star Rebel Wilson set to star, write and co-executive produce, has received a pilot order from CBS, according to The Hollywood Reporter. O’Brien is attached as an executive producer on “Super Fun Night,”…
Cinemax has ordered to series a project from “True Blood” and “Six Feet Under” creator Alan Ball, TheWrap.com reports. "Banshee" focuses on an ex-con who takes on the identity of a murdered sheriff to get his own form of justice,…
Media guru Irwin Gottleb has a new position, the result of a reorganization by WPP’s global media management company GroupM, as reported in TVWeek’s free Media Planner weekly e-newsletter. Please click here to read the rest of this article.
While hawking his new show, FX’s "Anger Management," at NATPE, Charlie Sheen declared that "Two and a Half Men" should come to an end this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I don’t think [‘Two and a Half Men’] should…
A health emergency that brought paramedics to actress Demi Moore’s house earlier this week is now being reported as related to substance problems, according to TMZ.com. Paramedics were called to her home late Monday, and she was taken to a…
The USA Network announced plans for its first entry in the reality genre, TheWrap.com reports. The show, which will be hosted by former NFL Super Bowl champion Kurt Warner, is "The Moment," the story reports. USA has picked up nine…
Simon Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment production company are teaming up for a new, live international reality competition program to find the world’s greatest disc jockeys, reports Deadline.com. The show has already been in…