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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 is making key changes to one of its highest-profile new shows to give one of its stars more play, TV Guide reports. Appearing at the TCA press tour, NBC Entertainment Chief Bob Greenblatt discussed changes that are in store…
Bravo has revealed that it’s adding three new original series to the schedule, Multichannel News reports. The cable net also announced it is renewing three shows: “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” “Top Chef Masters” and “Million Dollar Listing LA.”…
In a strategy that contrasts sharply with what’s going on at CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” — where the show’s producers are reaping headlines by killing off Charlie Sheen’s character — NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” is pointedly NOT…
Saying it’s “10 times harder” to run a cable net than it is to pull off a daily talk show, Oprah Winfrey has restated her commitment to making her ratings-challenged cable network a success, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Winfrey,…
ABC’s “The Bachelorette” capped off its lowest-rated season with its lowest-rated finale ever Monday night, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. Still, ABC won the night in both adults 18-49 and total viewers. The two-hour “Bachelorette” finale averaged a 2.7 rating in adults 18-49,…
The man who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch during a recent appearance before a parliamentary panel has received a jail sentence for the attack, the Daily Mail reports. Jonathan May-Bowles, 26, also known as Jonnie Marbles, was sentenced…
MSNBC has reinstated a senior political analyst who was suspended by the network after he called President Obama a “dick” on the “Morning Joe” show, B&C reports. Mark Halperin served what the network is now calling a one-month suspension following…
One of the iconic stars in the "Star Trek" television universe will join Syfy’s "Warehouse 13" for a four-episode guest stint, reports TV Guide. Kate Mulgrew, Captain Janeway on "Star Trek: Voyager," will play Jane, a regent, on the science-fiction…
"American Idol" judge Jennifer Lopez opened up about her decision to split from husband Marc Anthony in an interview for Vanity Fair‘s September issue. “Sometimes we don’t realize that we are compromising ourselves," Lopez said. "To understand that a person…
Negotiations for a fifth season of "Breaking Bad" have grown tense between AMC and Sony Television, the program’s producer, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Sony sent feelers to three other cable networks about a deal for the…