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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.
E! Entertainment drew big viewer numbers for its four-hour, two-night extravaganza featuring Kim Kardashian’s wedding, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. An average of 4.4 million viewers tuned in to Sunday’s installment of the wedding special, with an…
Netflix is banking on a new strategy that some observers say carries a high risk, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The company made a slew of deals at the international television market MIPCOM last week, buying up foreign television shows,…
Sony Corp. has again been targeted by hackers, and has responded by suspending about 93,000 user accounts, Bloomberg reports. The accounts of users of the company’s online gaming and entertainment offerings were temporarily suspended after “a massive number” of unauthorized…
A "Life Unexpected" actor has been tapped to play the deadbeat boyfriend of pregnant coffee girl Zoe on "Parenthood," reports TVLine.com. Rafi Gavron previously played Lux’s boyfriend Bug on the CW series "Life Unexpected," the piece notes. His character on…
Even with a big star in the lead role, HBO’s new series premiered Sunday to less than stellar numbers, according to Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. "Enlightened," starring Laura Dern, drew just 210,000 viewers, the story notes….
Citing the chance of fire, Sony is recalling 1.6 million television sets that were sold worldwide, Bloomberg reports. The Bravia flat-panel sets have a component that could cause them to melt or catch fire, the piece says. Japan’s trade ministry…
One of the former stars of the hit NBC comedy “Friends” is back in business with the Peacock Network, Deadline.com reports. Courteney Cox, together with her ex and producing partner David Arquette, is developing an ensemble comedy for the network,…
Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning writer of “The Social Network,” says Apple founder Steve Jobs asked him during their final conversation to write a Pixar movie, and Sorkin turned him down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two men were telephone…
Putting months of speculation to rest, the actor who will play the villain in the next James Bond movie confirmed he has the role, Entertainment Weekly reports. Oscar winner Javier Bardem said during an interview on ABC’s “Nightline” that he…
The tech site eWeek.com is listing 10 reasons to buy the older iPhone 4 instead of Apple’s recently unveiled newer model, the iPhone 4S. Apple’s pitch to get people to move to the new model has focused on the unit’s…