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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 studio where "Dancing with the Stars" is taped received an envelope with a white powder inside, prompting a call to the authorities on Wednesday, reports the Los Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog. The substance was found to be harmless…
Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of "Gilmore Girls," has tapped a Tony Award winner to star in a new pilot for ABC Family, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Tony winner Sutton Foster will play Michelle, a Las…
Here’s quite a prediction we read about this afternoon at Barron’s website: "[Analyst] Collins Stewart’s Mayuresh Masurekar, who rates Amazon shares Neutral, this afternoon writes that the Fire could be a prelude to Amazon buying Netflix’s streaming operations: ‘We believe the…
Between 1961 and 1969, NBC’s hit Western "Bonanza" ranked no lower than fourth among all primetime TV shows. The peacock network is hoping for some deja vu. Today it has been revealed that NBC "has bought an untitled Western project from…
It happened in a scene from this past Monday’s episode of "Two and a Half Men" on Sept. 26, 2011. Here’s the description given by our good frined Lynette Rice at EW.com’s InsideTV blog: "Less than eight minutes into the…episode…Ashton…
NBC is developing a sitcom with the comic who appeared in the movies "Dan in Real Life" and "Good Luck Chuck." That’s the word from our good friend Michael Ausiello at TVLine.com, Michael writes, "In what marks his first foray…
A new report by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation says the most gay-friendly broadcast and cable networks are Fox and and HBO, respectively, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Across scripted shows on broadcast and cable, fewer LGBT characters…
Lovehoney will become the first sex-toy retailer to advertise on TV in the U.K. on Oct. 3, when a 30-second spot debuts at 10.15 a.m. during an episode of imported U.S. reality show ‘The Real Housewives of New York City,’…
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network is bringing in a veteran programmer to help put the network on track, according to The Hollywood Reporter. OWN has tapped former Lifetime executive Susanne Daniels, who will work as an executive consultant and report…
Southwest Airlines says the reason "L Word" actress Leisha Hailey and her partner Camila Grey were removed from a flight was not because of a public display of affection — which has been described as a lesbian kiss — but…