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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.
CBS has signed a deal to keep an annual awards ceremony on the network for 10 years, Deadline.com reports. The agreement extends the network’s deal with the Academy of Country Music that has had the ACM Awards on CBS since…
A veteran actor known for a series of high-profile TV and film appearances, including playing the father of George Clooney’s character on “E.R.,” has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. James Farentino, 73, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital,…
With the return of fresh episodes and new shows, the midseason death watch has started and a number of shows are already at risk for an early demise, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. One of those shows is "The Finder,"…
The U.S. State Department has stepped into a controversy surrounding a gag Jay Leno delivered during his opening monologue on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” the BBC reports. Meanwhile, Deadline.com reported that a lawsuit has been filed against Leno and NBC in…
Actress Demi Moore was treated by paramedics Tuesday after the Los Angeles Fire Department was called to her house, reports the Los Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog. Her condition wasn’t clear, but her representative said Moore had "chosen to seek…
A major Spanish-language TV network has announced a move that could significantly expand its audience, the Los Angeles Times reports in its Company Town blog. Univision revealed Tuesday during the NATPE conference in Miami that it will add closed-captioned English-language…
A man who earned a place in pop culture history by providing the voice of a famous TV robot in the 1960s has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dick Tufeld, the voice of the B9 Robot in "Lost in…
Julian Assange, the controversial founder of cyber-transparency website WikiLeaks, has announced he’s launching a television show, according to media reports. The theme of the talk show will be “the world tomorrow.” The show will air on RT, a global TV…
NBC is teaming with a cable network to add to the broadcast net’s summer lineup, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. "American Ninja Warrior" will move from its usual home on cable net G4 onto NBC’s summer schedule, the piece reports….
Two shows may bring similar concepts to the air next fall, with ABC placing a pilot order for a project based on the classic fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast,” reports TVLine.com. The order comes on the heels of the…