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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.
Entertainment and media spending were up last year–their first gains since 2007, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, citing the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media Outlook. Spending rose 3.1% in 2010, compared with 2009, according to the report….
Jessica Simpson, who has been keeping busy with movies, music, TV and a fashion career since she famously got confused about Chicken of the Sea tuna on “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica,” has another high-profile TV job lined up, reports TVLine.com….
After being widely criticized for anti-gay comments in a recent comedy routine, "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan plans to meet with gay youths in New York and will return to Tennessee, where he made the comments, to apologize, reports The…
A CBS comedy project from “Saturday Night Live” alum Rob Schneider is reportedly in strong consideration as a midseason pickup, and its chances may be even better now that comedian Cheech Marin has joined the cast, reports Deadline.com. Marin is…
Alec Baldwin has received an endorsement–with a caveat–from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who responded to speculation that the "30 Rock" star might run for his job, reports the Daily Caller. On Bloomberg’s weekly radio show, the mayor said, “If…
A line of toys that sparked a craze in the 1980s may be headed to television in an animated special, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Appalachian Artworks sold the TV rights to the line of dolls the Cabbage Patch Kids…
A long-running CBS show has been named the highest-rated television series in the world, Deadline.com reports. Receiving the International Television Audience Award for a Drama TV Series at the 51st Monte Carlo TV Festival was CBS’s "CSI." This was the…
Actress Tori Spelling was reportedly involved in a traffic collision Monday morning, and later tweeted that she was being chased by paparazzi at the time, Access Hollywood reported. Spelling, who is pregnant, was apparently taking her two toddlers to school….
One NBC affiliate says the network’s upcoming drama series “The Playboy Club” is inappropriate for its viewers and will be pre-empted, EW.com reports. KSL-TV in Salt Lake City announced the decision on its website, saying it is “based on the…
A cable channel that has been doing well with its original dramas lately is giving one of its newer entries a chance to gain momentum, according to The Hollywood Reporter. AMC has ordered a second season of the serial drama…