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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.
Simon Cowell’s Syco production company and ITV Studios are pitching a game show to U.S. networks — a version of the U.K. game show "Red or Black," which is more or less a roulette game with elaborate challenges built in,…
The once-high flying Netflix saw its shares lose another 9.4% of their value Tuesday, on the heels of Chief Executive Reed Hastings’ blog post apologizing for an earlier fee hike and announcing another unpopular decision to split the company’s streaming…
With Charlie Sheen taking jabs and jokes on his behalf, Comedy Central had its highest-rated roast in the franchise’s history, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The special drew 6.4 million total viewers on Monday night, surpassing the…
"Facebook is looking to hire a big-name executive to cultivate relationships and strike deals with the film and music industries to bolster its media offerings," Reuters reports. The article continues, "In recent months, Facebook had discussions with former MySpace co-President…
The season premiere of CBS’s “Two and a Half Men,” with Ashton Kutcher taking over for Charlie Sheen, was a big ratings winner Monday night, helping CBS win the night in the 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC, meanwhile, had little…
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide announced a deal that will bring themed “lands” based on a James Cameron blockbuster to Disney parks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Disney deal with Cameron, producer Jon Landau, Fox and Cameron’s Lightstorm…
"Entourage" has ended its run on HBO after eight seasons, but executive producer Mark Wahlberg is already plotting a big-screen incarnation of the show — and he says it will happen, reports People magazine. "We’re working on [a movie] as…
TV’s big week of fall rollouts continues tonight with some heavyweight shows returning for new seasons along with a couple of launches of new shows, TVLine reports. Among the highlights tonight: At 8 p.m. CBS’s wildly successful procedural “NCIS” kicks…
Following his stint at MSNBC, Cenk Uyger has found another TV home, reports TVNewser.com. Uyger will bring his Web show "The Young Turks" to Current TV, where it will fill the 7 p.m. ET timeslot beginning later this year. Uyger’s…
Despite the recent resignation of CEO Steve Jobs, the economic outlook for Apple has remained robust, Deadline.com reports. The stock closed trading Monday at $411.63 a share — up 2.78% for the day to an all-time high, the story reports….