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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.
Jennifer Lopez has completed her deal to return as a judge on TV’s most popular show, "American Idol," with "a monster payday,’ reports Tim Kenneally in an exclusive story at TheWrap, citing "two individuals familiar with the deal." According to…
Our two favorite non-TV stories of the day. First, it appears that the Federal Bureau of Investigation may actually be close to solving the 1971 sykjacking of D. B. Cooper, reports The New York Times in a story first repoted…
Our good friend Nellie Andreeva over at Deadline.com thinks she knows how Ashton Kutcher will be introduced as Charlie Sheen’s replacement on "Two and a Half Men." Writes Andreeva, "I have been able to confirm that Charlie Sheen’s character Charlie…
NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt talked about the struggle to return the fourth-place network to its past glory during a session at the Television Critics Association press tour, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Greenblatt admitted that it has been “a…
A cable channel that has already put a lot of effort into branding itself is now positioning itself to start the process all over again. The channel that was once known as Outdoor Life Network and currently goes by Versus…
Bela Bajaria will jump from CBS/CBS TV Studios to Universal Media Studios as executive vice president, tasked with turning the division into a standalone studio, reports TheWrap.com. Bajaria has been senior vice president of cable programming for CBS TV Studios…
The former CEO of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN has landed a new media job, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Taking on the job of executive editor of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group’s new site Black Voices is Christina Norman, who…
With the 2011 edition of "Hard Knocks" becoming a casualty of the NFL lockout, HBO will present a 90-minute special about the history of the NFL reality show, reports NFL Films. Via Twitter, NFL Films revealed that on Wednesday, Aug….
ABC Family has ordered 22 additional episodes of a new teen drama, reports Deadline.com. With the 10 episodes that were part of the initial order, a total of 32 episodes will make up the first season of the program, "Switched…
CBS will present a television special commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 disaster with a show hosted by Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, reports the Los Angeles Times. "9/11: 10 Years Later" will air Sept. 11, 2011, at 8…