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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.
A farmer who apparently didn’t know what he was agreeing to when he gave permission to pop superstar Rihanna to do a video shoot in his grain field ended up halting the shoot because he was offended by the singer’s…
Fox took the overall ratings win Tuesday night in the 18-49 demo, as “New Girl,” “Raising Hope” and “Glee” remained strong, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “New Girl” won adults 18-49 with a 4.4 average rating, off 8% from premiere…
Initial ratings have come in for ABC’s replacement for the soap opera "All My Children" — a lifestyle series called "The Chew." According to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog, the show got off to a solid start on…
One syndicated daytime talk show stood above the rest as ratings came in for the first week of the new television season, reports the New York Post. “Dr. Phil” averaged 5.2 million viewers and a 3.9 rating for the week…
"AmericanLife TV Network on Tuesday, [Sept. 27, 2011] converted to Youtoo TV, billing itself as a social media TV network that lets viewers record short videos and air them on the channel," writes our friend Kent Gibbons at Multichannel News. Gibbons…
Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures today announced a reorganization in which its DVD and Blu-ray disc sales unit and its online video licensing operation are being combined, Bloomberg reports. Some staff is being relocated from London to Los Angeles as part of…
Starz has given a renewal to one of its shows even before the series debuts for its first season, reports TVLine.com. The show is "Boss," a new drama starring Kelsey Grammer. The first season of the series is slated to…
A wildly popular singer-songwriter who is closely identified with tropical themes should be right at home when he makes a guest appearance in an upcoming episode of CBS’s “Hawaii Five-0," reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Jimmy Buffett, known for hit songs…
Amazon’s Kindle Fire — the company’s first tablet computer — is set to debut today, and the company has been aggressively signing up partners for programming content to make it competitive with other portable devices, reports Deadline.com. Recent deals have…
Spike TV has picked up a new original series that sounds as though it might have some depth to it, TheWrap.com reports. The show is an adventure-reality series called “Diamond Divers,” about a nautical crew that travels to South Africa’s…