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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.
The man who developed "Ugly Betty" for ABC and executive produced the show has a new dramedy in the works for the network, Deadline.com reports. “Betty’s” Silvio Horta has teamed with director Will Gluck — best known for the movie…
A lawsuit filed by a former "Real World" cast member claims she was raped with a toothbrush by male cast members on "The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins," reports TMZ.com. Tonya Cooley filed the suit against MTV, Bunim/Murray Productions, Kenneth Santucci,…
Charlie Sheen’s new comedy, "Anger Management," has found a home, with plans set for a 10-episode launch in summer 2012, reports Deadline.com. The show will be on FX, which already airs reruns of Sheen’s earlier show, "Two and a Half…
The Screen Actors Guild and the broadcast union AFTRA have a message for IMDb: Stop publishing actors’ birthdates, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The reason behind the request is the concern that actors may lose out…
Even after a consumer rebellion following a controversial Netflix price increase earlier this year, another movie rental service has announced a price hike, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The rental-kiosk service Redbox will boost its standard DVD rental fee by…
NBC’s newsmagazine "Rock Center with Brian Williams" will debut on Halloween at 10 p.m., with the first episode looking at antigovernment activists in Syria and the one place in the U.S. with a negative unemployment rate, according to The Hollywood…
The former talent manager for Melissa Joan Hart has sued the actress for allegedly refusing to pay commissions on her earnings from ABC Family’s "Melissa & Joey," according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. blog. The suit, from Kieran Maguire,…
DirecTV is taking its dispute with Fox Networks to the Federal Communications Commission, with the satellite-TV company sending a complaint letter to the agency about Fox’s newspaper ads and TV promos, reports TheWrap.com. DirecTV is accusing Fox of running misleading…
Thursday’s stock market surge — with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising more than 330 points — failed to translate to cable stocks, Multichannel News reports. The story reports: “The Dow finished the day at 12,208.55, up 339.5 points. For…
Consumers may have to wait longer to rent new films, according to a plan under consideration by some of the biggest Hollywood movie studios, reports Bloomberg. The studios are considering increasing the wait for rentals to 60 days — up…