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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.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been appearing on a fill-in basis on MSNBC, has been given a weeknight show on the cable network, Multichannel News reports. The new show, “PoliticsNation,” will air nightly at 6 p.m. ET, starting Aug….
While the NBA continues to have a labor dispute that threatens the upcoming season, two major NBA stars will be appearing as themselves on NBC’s "Law & Order: SVU," reports NBCNews.com. Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat and the New…
Jon Turteltaub, a veteran film director and the executive producer of "Jericho," has inked a deal with ABC Studios to produce TV series through his Junction Entertainment production company, Deadline.com reports. Turteltaub had been with CBS TV Studios for four…
Actress Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen’s ex, declined an invitation to appear on CBS’s "Two and a Half Men" because she wanted to avoid a scene with her ex-husband, the former star of that sitcom, reports TMZ.com. Richards was asked to…
Fox’s “Glee” reportedly cut down dramatically on the screen time and singing time for one big-voiced diva during the past season to avoid upsetting another one. According to a source, Charice Pempengco had her vocal numbers cut back to avoid…
After receiving a death threat from a message board used by Al Qaeda, late-night host David Letterman responded Monday by poking fun of it in his "Top 10" list and monologue, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media…
In one of Russell Armstrong’s final interviews before he committed suicide earlier this month, the estranged husband of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Taylor Armstrong lashed out at Bravo, reports Maer Roshan at TheFix.com. "As it happens, I’d met…
The television industry employed fewer women in the 2010-11 season, with fewer females both in front of the camera and behind it, reports the Los Angeles Times. Just 15% of the writers on prime-time dramas, comedies and reality shows on…
One of the stars of ABC’s "Modern Family" is working on an HBO Films project focusing on one of the biggest stars of the silent film era, reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Eric Stonestreet, who plays…
"Jerry Leiber, who with his songwriting partner Mike Stoller created a songbook that infused the rock ‘n’ roll scene of the 1950s and early ’60s with energy and mischievous humor, has died," reports the Los Angeles Times. He was 78….