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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 first guest has been announced for the Oct. 10 premiere of “The Rosie Show” on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network, Multichannel News reports. Host Rosie O’Donnell will interview comedian, actor and author Russell Brand on the show. O’Donnell has…
With all but the last few fall premieres now out of the way, Fox, ABC and CBS all had something to cheer about in Wednesday night’s numbers, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC was another matter. The centerpiece of the night for ABC was…
In Monday’s episode of CBS’s "Two and a Half Men," the new star of the show, Ashton Kutcher, snuck a plug into the show for some of his off-screen business concerns — Foursquare, Flipboard and GroupMe — as previously reported….
It has been another day of drama in the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, People magazine reports. At one point Alberto Alvarez, who was an assistant to Michael Jackson, testified about the reaction of the singer’s daughter Paris…
Momentum is building for an investigation into Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission, Multichannel News reports. Among the latest groups calling for a probe are the ACLU, the Center for Digital Democracy, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American…
With viewers fleeing NBC’s new drama “The Playboy Club” it may be much ado about nothing, but the network, the show’s advertisers and a watchdog group are all putting different spins on what’s going on with the show, the New…
A singer who has been at it for a while — to say the least — has another historic achievement to his credit, reports Entertainment Weekly. The new album by 85-year-old singing icon Tony Bennett debuted on the Billboard 200…
The grandchildren of former South African President Nelson Mandela will be the focus of a new reality show set to air starting in early 2012, reports Deadline.com. “This is about three women breaking away from the Mandela legacy to find…
Even casual viewers of "Glee" know that Lea Michele’s character, Rachel Berry — like the actress who plays her — is an obsessed fan of Barbra Streisand, reports Examiner.com. On Monday, Michele tweeted that while watching A&E’s "Hoarders," she saw…
Fox has given a full-season order to a new fall show after just two weeks on the air, reports Bill Carter in the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The network placed an order for an additional 11 episodes of…