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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.
As a number of syndicated talk shows jockey for distribution in daytime, at least one show seems to be gaining momentum. NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution announced that it hit a milestone with “Steve Harvey,” selling it in more than 80%…
Steve Carell, best known as the former star of NBC’s "The Office," will be returning to prime time, reports Entertainment Weekly. But it won’t be quite the same: Carell will lend his voice to Fox’s "The Simpsons." The actor will…
The Academy Award statuette that was given to Orson Welles for writing the classic film "Citizen Kane" is being put up for auction, reports the AP. Auctioneer Nate D. Sanders will sell the trophy to the highest bidder in an…
With NBC talking to Ryan Seacrest about becoming the next host of "Today," as previously reported, the network is undergoing an identity crisis about the popular morning program, reports the Los Angeles Times. At the heart of the crisis is…
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, who played Rob and Laura Petrie on the CBS sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s, will be reunited on the SAG Awards in January, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Van…
Authorities have made an arrest in a hacking case that targeted a famous rocker who stars in a reality show, Bloomberg reports. The attack was against Gene Simmons, the frontman for the rock group KISS and a star of A&E’s…
Former "Law & Order: SVU" star Chris Meloni, who ended his run as NYPD Det. Elliot Stabler on that show last spring, has been tapped for a regular role in the fifth season of ‘True Blood," TVLine.com reports. Meloni will…
An Oscar- and Emmy-winning producer whose career highlights included “Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces” and “The Last Picture Show” has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. Bert Schneider, who also won an Emmy as a producer on the TV show…
Time has named its “Person of the Year” for 2011, and as it tends to do from time to time, the magazine did something other than pick a specific person. The publication chose to honor “the Protester” this year, MSNBC…
A former "Survivor" winner plans to create a television show based on children conceived from his sperm donations, reports the Associated Press. Richard Hatch, who was freed from prison this week on a tax evasion sentence related to his "Survivor"…