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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.
A 21-year-old Idaho man has been charged by federal authorities with attempting to assassinate President Obama, The New York Times reports. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House, the story reports. Authorities say…
With deals in the nation’s top three markets yet another talk show has been given the green light to debut in September 2012. Reads the announcement, "Twentieth Television, Inc. today announced that ‘The Ricki Lake Show,’ the new syndicated talk…
CBS confirmed today that it has ordered three more seasons of a show that has been thriving on the network for the past decade, EW.com reports. The show is “Survivor,” the longest-running reality competition series on television. The show’s 24th…
A classic cartoon character with a long history on TV and film will return to the silver screen in a modern variation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The character is Woody Woodpecker. Writers John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, the scribes…
The star of a Showtime series has received a mild sentence in a case in which he became unruly at an airport bar and wound up threatening to kill three police officers, the AFP reports. On Wednesday, a French court…
Talk about big shoes to fill. The daughter of perennial Academy Award nominee, two-time Oscar winner and two-time Emmy winner Meryl Streep has recently turned her attention to getting her own acting career off the ground, and she just got…
It’s probably unnecessary under that headline to say “spoiler alert,” but yes, this story contains a pretty big spoiler. Earlier this season on CBS’s top-rated "NCIS," a recurring character played by Sarah Jane Morris was shot and presumably killed ……
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the official announcement today that Ricky Gervais will be back to host the Golden Globes Awards ceremony, and Gervais took the opportunity to offer a gentle poke at the idea of returning to the…
NBC has confirmed that it’s going ahead with a new version of a 1960s comedy series — and this time around the show will be a drama, TVLine.com reports. The network greenlighted a remake of "The Munsters" from Bryan Fuller, the…
The star of a CBS comedy series tells TVGuide.com that the show hasn’t been supported by CBS "from the very beginning." "Rules of Engagement" star Patrick Warburton spoke out after CBS said it would pull the show off its schedule…