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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.
Fox will create a Saturday night programming block that will square up against NBC’s "Saturday Night Live," reports Bloomberg. The animation block will debut in January 2013, starting at 11 p.m. on Saturdays, said Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly, according…
Bravo has tapped an outspoken comedian for a weekly talk show, according to the Associated Press. The cable network plans to debut “Kathy,” starring Kathy Griffin, in the spring, the story reports. According to the report: “Bravo promised that ‘this…
MSNBC President Phil Griffin tells The New York Times that commentator Pat Buchanan’s time on the network may be over, amid criticisms from civil rights groups that his book "Suicide of a Superpower" is racist and anti-Semitic. Buchanan hasn’t appeared…
Current TV host Keith Olbermann, whose status at the network has been in negotiations, announced to his Twitter followers that he will be "running the election coverage on Current, after New Hampshire," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog….
The Depression-era outlaws Bonnie and Clyde will have their story retold for television in an upcoming miniseries, TVLine.com reports. The project is being taken on by A&E Networks, with the series to air on either Lifetime or History, the story…
Kiefer Sutherland, the star of Fox’s hit drama “24,” gave an update on the big-screen adaptation of the show during an appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour, TVLine reports. Sutherland said he hopes the movie will start filming…
A prolific character actor with a string of film credits including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" and "The Hustler" has died, The New York Times reports. William Duell, 88, died Dec. 22 at his home in Manhattan. Duell, who…
After rumors circulated surrounding the future of one of the key actors on NBC’s “30 Rock,” the network revealed Friday during an appearance before the Television Critics Association that Alec Baldwin is committed to staying with the show, Deadline.com reports….
NBC has apologized to a popular stand-up comic over what was perceived as an insult involving seating for a basketball game, TMZ.com reports. Lisa Lampanelli, one of 16 stars chosen for NBC’s upcoming "Celebrity Apprentice" edition, was rewarded along with…