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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.

Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Cable News Series, Formerly Known as ‘More as This Story Develops,’ Has a New Name

"More as This Story Develops" was the working title for Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO drama series about a cable news network like MSNBC, but the show now has a new name, reports TVNewser.com. It will be called either "Newsroom" or…

CBS Dominates Monday Ratings

Even with Fox’s “American Country Awards” scoring a huge increase in viewership over last year, CBS notched a dominant ratings win according to Nielsen overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. CBS averaged a 4.0 rating in adults 18-49 for the night, pounding Fox…

A TV Pioneer and Behind-the-Scenes Legend Dies — She Gave Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Christopher Walken and Countless Others Their First Breaks

The woman credited with giving countless TV and movie icons their first breaks has died, Deadline.com reports. Veteran casting director Marion Dougherty died Sunday, Dec. 4, of natural causes at 88, the story reports. Dougherty was a television pioneer, starting…

ESPN Fires Analyst After Arrest

ESPN has fired one of its on-air analysts after he was arrested Monday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. NHL analyst Matthew Barnaby, a former Buffalo Sabres player, was arrested for allegedly driving drunk, the story reports. Barnaby was driving his…

Great Gift Idea: This Is the Holiday Present We’re Sure Steve Jobs Would Have Liked Getting. It’s the Story of Someone With a Scientist’s Brain, a Poet’s Heart and a Painter’s Eyes. Simplifying to Get to the Essence

One of the great accomplishments Steve Jobs achieved was bringing the world the Apple design aesthetic. In Walter Isaacson’s splendid, compulsively page-turning best-selling biography “Steve Jobs,” he quotes Jobs as saying early on in his career, “The way we’re running the…

Video: Muppets Accused of Brainwashing Kids

With the recent release of a new movie, the Muppets have come under fire from some critics, who say they have a hidden agenda. Fox Business host Eric Bolling suggested on Friday that the Muppets are trying to brainwash kids…

Here’s a Great Gift Idea: This Is the Holiday Present We’re Sure Steve Jobs Would Have Liked Getting. It’s the Story of Someone With a Scientist’s Brain, a Poet’s Heart and a Painter’s Eyes.

We think you’ll like this. TVWeek’s Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross introduces you to a wonderful holiday gift. Intriguingly, it’s a gift Ross is sure Steve Jobs would have liked to have received as well. To read this illuminating and fun…