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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.
Following Netflix’s plunge in share prices — after another sell-off on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, the stock is now off 75% from its high for the past year — at least one investor who had bet against the video-streaming service…
"The X Factor" will allow people to vote via a social-networking site starting next week, as producer Simon Cowell — who once dismissed Twitter as a list of strangers’ lunch plans — has apparently had a change of heart, reports…
"Dr. Phil" will get ghoulish next month, as the show plans to exhume the body of a woman who was found hanging from the home of her multimillionaire boyfriend, reports the New York Post. The family of Rebecca Zahau wants…
Linda Yaccarino, an 18-year veteran with Turner Broadcasting, has landed another big television job just a day after announcing her departure from Turner, Multichannel News reports. Yaccarino is poised to accept an offer from Comcast to take a senior ad…
Michael Lohan, the father of actress Lindsay Lohan, was arrested today in Tampa, Fla., the AP reports. Lohan, 51, was booked on domestic violence charges, the story reports. After he was taken into custody he reportedly complained about chest pains…
Barely into the current season of one of its dramas, AMC has announced that it is bringing the series back for another season, EW.com reports. The show is the zombie drama “The Walking Dead,” which has aired only two episodes…
The new Forbes list of the top-earning dead celebrities is a mix of the expected and the unexpected, with one huge superstar well ahead of the pack, the magazine reports. The King of Pop and the man known simply as…
One of the co-hosts of NPR’s "All Things Considered" announced in a letter to staff Monday that she is leaving the show because her husband has accepted a position to work on President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, according to The…
All DVDs and Blu-ray discs in the "Harry Potter" series will be yanked from the shelves Dec. 29, following a strategy made famous by Disney with its classic animation titles, reports TheWrap.com. The last major "Potter" release will be the…
Fox has ordered a script for a multicamera sitcom from an actor known for his role in “MAD TV” and seen more recently as William Shatner’s son on "$#*! My Dad Says," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show from…