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Chuck Ross

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.

Fox Orders New Series Starring Kiefer Sutherland

Fox is bringing "24" star Kiefer Sutherland back to television with an order for a new drama series, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The network has ordered 13 episodes of "Touch," from "Heroes" creator Tim Kring, the…

Veterans of ‘Heroes’ and ‘Sopranos’ to Star in New HBO Comedy Pilot From ‘Entourage’s’ Doug Ellin — All Four Leads Are Now in Place

The final two of the four lead roles have been cast in a new HBO comedy pilot from “Entourage’s” Doug Ellin, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Adrian Pasdar and Michael Imperioli, stars of "Heroes" and "The…

We Have a Winner: Early Ratings Are In for Premiere Week’s Big Thursday Night

Overnight metered market ratings are in for the first Thursday night broadcast battle of fall 2011, according to TVbytheNumbers.com, and we have a winner. CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” was the top show of the night, with the story reporting…

Total Recall’ — Really? Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Book Deal; Bidding for His Memoir, ‘Total Recall,’ Started at $5 Million

Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a book deal for a memoir, to be titled "Total Recall," after his agent started the bidding at $5 million, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Although some publishers shied away from the price tag,…

Guess Which Milestone Walmart’s Streaming Service, Vudu, Is About to Reach: The Availability of 5,000, 7,500 or 10,000 TV Episodes?

With all of the attention lately focused on Netflix, Walmart’s Vudu streaming video service is about to reach a major milestone. "Vudu … expects to offer more than 10,500 episodes of TV cable and broadcast shows for à la carte…

Creator of ‘Breakout Kings’ Sells Drama to Broadcast Net

One of the big 4 broadcast networks has bought the drama project "The Raiding Party" from "Breakout Kings" creator Nick Santora, reports Deadline.com. The project, which Santora sold to Fox, is about three brothers and their domineering mother who carry…

Lifetime Orders Another Season of Scripted Show

Lifetime has given a fourth-season order to a scripted series described as a legal comedy-drama-fantasy about a fashion model’s soul that lives in the body of a plus-size woman, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. "Drop Dead Diva," which has averaged…

Zuckerberg Announces That He Wants to Make Facebook Into a Key Entertainment Hub as Users Continue to Protest Changes to Their News Feed. Eight Hundred Million People Worldwide Have Now Signed Up for Facebook

"Facebook has unveiled sweeping changes to its website – including partnerships with major music and film companies – in a bid to transform the world’s biggest social network into a key entertainment hub," The Guardian reports. The article continues, "Mark…

Fall’s New-Look Thursday Night: Plenty of New Shows and Plenty of Drama

The stakes are high for the broadcast networks tonight, when the opening salvos will be fired in the battle to be this season’s king of must-see TV. Thursday night won’t be the sitcom-dominated barrel of laughs it once was. New…

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