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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.
NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell revealed on MSNBC that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to TVNewser.com. Mitchell said that the cancer was caught in its earliest stage and that her prognosis is excellent, the story…
Mos Def, the hip-hop artist and "Dexter" actor, says he’s changing his name, according to The Guardian. Mos Def, whose real name is Dante Terrell Smith, said he plans to change his name to Yasiin starting in 2012, the story…
Fired Yahoo! Chief Executive Carol Bartz, who held her job for less than three years, could receive a payout worth around $10 million, reports Bloomberg. According to an April filing by Yahoo, she would have received $10.4 million if she…
ABC is adapting "Sex and the City" author Candace Bushnell’s 2008 book "One Fifth Avenue" for television and has tapped "Gossip Girl" executive producer Josh Safran to write the adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The…
A week after an episode of TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras” attracted a critical backlash because a 4-year-old contestant put on fake breasts to appear as Dolly Parton, as previously reported, the show has drawn another round of protests, according to…
An executive who was behind a number of hit television shows has died at 80, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Donald Taffner Sr., who adapted a British format to create "Three’s Company" and brought "The Benny Hill Show" to U.S….
The announcement this week that Eddie Murphy will host the next Oscars telecast left out some juicy details — namely, which other heavyweight entertainers were eager to get the job. According to the New York Daily News, other stars who…
If there were any doubt whether FX has a hit on its hands with one of its critically acclaimed dramas, Tuesday night’s fourth-season premiere should put it to rest. The 90-minute rollout of “Sons of Anarchy” pulled in a series-record…
"Researchers led by E. Charles Sykes at Tufts University have created what they believe is the world’s smallest electric motor comprised of a single molecule," reports GeeKOSystem.com, which adds, "If accepted by Guinness World Records, their one nanometer long motor will…
NBC, which has the NFL regular season opener scheduled for Thursday night, has announced some programming changes to accommodate a key jobs speech by President Obama, NBCSports.com reports. Obama will address a joint session of Congress at 7 p.m. ET,…