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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 Swiss group has put out a TV commercial that is aimed primarily at George Clooney, AOL’s DailyFinance reports. Ths Swiss labor rights group Solidar Suisse is behind the spoof ad, which features a Clooney look-alike dodging — and failing…
The same night Charlie Sheen was being roasted in another part of town, Hollywood gathered for Part 1 of the Emmys — the Creative Arts Awards, where Emmys were handed out in a whopping 75 categories. TVWeek Open Mic blogger…
A TV veteran who was a mainstay of a popular soap opera for almost three decades and won the first Emmy awarded to an actor for daytime drama has died, The New York Times reports. Mary Fickett, who starred as…
A well-known hip-hop and electro producer and DJ has died in what is being reported as an accidental fall from a roof in France. DJ Mehdi’s publicist confirmed that Mehdi, 34, has died, according to The Huffington Post. News originally…
In a truly outrageous, colorful entry, TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross puts the screws to what he clearly thinks is a lot of hooey about TV. Read why he thinks that, once again, we’ve been speckildorked! Please click here to…
NBC Entertainment is changing the name of its television production unit back to its original 1951 name, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. That means Universal Media Studios will now be called Universal Television, the story says. The…
As we reported previously, ABC News’ Diane Sawyer has snared the first television interview with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords since she was shot in the head in January in an apparent assassination attempt. But even though she has reportedly agreed to…
Joan Collins, the legendary star of 1980s primetime soap opera "Dynasty," gave her critiques of a few younger stars, reports London’s The Telegraph newspaper. Asked what she thinks of Gwyneth Paltrow, the 78-year-old actress replied, “Is she the one who…
Laura Benanti, one of the stars of NBC’s "The Playboy Club," will grace the October cover of Playboy magazine, which will sell for the 1961 price of just 60 cents, reports TVLine.com. Benanti, who plays Bunny Mother Carol-Lynne on the…
Michael Ovitz is working on developing a Tom Clancy project for TNT, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Tom Clancy’s Homeland Security" focuses on a team of domestic intelligence operatives who fight enemies both in the U.S. and abroad, the story…