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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.
CNN announced today that a former White House press secretary has joined the news network as a political contributor. Ari Fleischer, who was press secretary under President George W. Bush from 2001-2003, will be a regular contributor, CNN SVP and…
"Two And a Half Men" creator Chuck Lorre promised surprises in the season premiere of the show to help viewers forget about Charlie Sheen and help pump up Ashton Kutcher’s debut. One of those surprises in Monday night’s debut was…
So what was it that Alec Baldwin said about Rupert Murdoch and the News Corp. phone hacking scandal that Fox would not allow to be aired on last Sunday’s Emmy broadcast? Here’s what Darren Franich has to say on EW.com’s Inside TV blog, "Although EW couldn’t learn the exact…
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Alec Baldwin denied that his decision to skip the Emmy Awards on Sunday night was because of the cutting of a joke from the ceremony’s opening segment, reports the New York Post. Baldwin said that the reason he couldn’t make…
Charlie Sheen, ousted by Warner Bros from his starring role on the CBS sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men’ in March, "will receive about $25 million to settle the dispute, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who…
A new report asks what Jeff Conaway of “Taxi,” Clarice Taylor of “The Cosby Show” and Len Lesser, who played Uncle Leo on “Seinfeld,” have in common. The answer: They were all television notables who were left out of the…
The tortured saga of AMC’s critically acclaimed “Mad Men” has had plenty of twists and turns in the past year and in recent days, including the show’s winning its fourth consecutive Emmy as outstanding drama on Sunday. The Emmy win…
Dolores Hope, who was married to comedian Bob Hope for 69 years, has died, reports the Los Angeles Times. She was 102. Throughout their marriage, which ended with Bob Hope’s death in 2003, Dolores Hope oversaw the couple’s charitable giving,…
Chaz Bono, whose participation in this season’s “Dancing With the Stars” has been a lightning rod for angry Internet chatter, said he would avoid looking at Internet message boards after his debut on the show, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog….