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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.
Actress Lindsay Lohan has survived her share of problems in the past year, but now she has another one to deal with. TMZ.com reports that she has been hit with a lien by the federal government over alleged unpaid taxes….
"GCB," the upcoming ABC show based on Kim Gatlin’s popular 2008 book "Good Christian Bitches" will "remain respectful" of religion, according to executive producer Robert Harling, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. According to the blog, Harling added, "The church is the center. There…
A syndicated show that has won two Daytime Emmys for outstanding talk show received a two-season renewal, B&C reports. The show is CBS Television Distribution’s “Rachael Ray,” which won the Emmys in the category in 2008 and 2009, the story…
A petition focused on breastfeeding and aimed at a long-running children’s show has been gathering momentum online, with about 3,000 people signing so far and a goal of 5,000, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The petition asks the educational show…
Two big customers are pushing back against a Warner Bros.-led effort by studios to delay the availability of DVD rentals by eight weeks, reports Bloomberg. Those customers are Blockbuster, owned by Dish Network, and Redbox, owned by Coinstar, the story…
PBS’s latest hit series returned Sunday for its second season, and came through with big ratings, The New York Times reports in its ArtsBeat blog. The period drama "Downton Abbey" drew 4.2 million total viewers for its season two premiere,…
The legal battle between Fox Sports and the Los Angeles Dodgers over selling television rights in advance of the sale of the team has been settled, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. blog. As part of the settlement, Fox…
A contre-investigation into Natalie Wood’s death in 1981 has thus far found that there is no evidence to suggest anything beyond an accident, reports the Los Angeles Times. The case hasn’t been closed, but an official in the Sheriff’s Department…
A pop star who sang at Rupert Murdoch’s 1999 wedding is suing News Corp. over claims that its News of the World tabloid later hacked into her voice mail, reports Bloomberg. The lawsuit from Charlotte Church, who was 13 when…
With Occupy Wall Street protesters outside reciting George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," the U.S. Supreme Court today heard arguments on both sides of the Federal Communications Commission’s tougher indecency enforcement policy announced in 2004, Reuters…