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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.
Warner Bros. Television Chief Executive Peter Roth, whose company has had 12 pilots picked up for the upcoming broadcast season, opened up about why the most talked-about pilot, “Wonder Woman,” failed to make the cut. Roth told The Hollywood Reporter…
As her long-running daytime syndicated show nears its final episode, Oprah Winfrey tells The New York Times she is concerned about building up the audience for her new venture, OWN. "I wish more people were watching," she said when asked…
Dr Drew Pinsky has tweeted an update on the condition of Jeff Conaway, the former co-star of "Taxi" who has been in a coma and who reportedly had an apparent drug overdose. According to "Access Hollywood’s" website, " ‘Just visited Jeff…
Ashton Kutcher’s contract for "Two and a Half Men" is only for one year, reports the Wall St. Journal’s Speakeasy blog, quoting "people familiar with the situation." [Note: The WSJ is behind a paywall for some of its stories.] According to…
The songwriter of one of the biggest hits in the history of popular music was found dead Sunday in an apparent suicide, The New York Times reported. Joseph Brooks, who won an Oscar for his hit song "You Light Up…
With two big pop stars in the lineup, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” saw its ratings soar for the season finale, Deadline.com reported. The broadcast had a 7.0 household rating/21 share in metered markets, up 21% over last year’s finale, the…
The producer of the controversial miniseries “The Kennedys,” which aired earlier this year on ReelzChannel, has signed a production deal that will kick off with a scripted series for Reelz, probably a one-hour drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The…
Sony Corp. announced that it expects to post a massive net loss for the recently concluded fiscal year, with the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan destroying what had been optimistic expectations for the period, The New York Times…
"Napoleon Dynamite" star Jon Heder has received a pilot order for a live-action comedy from Disney XD, a cable network geared to boys 6 to 14 years old, reports Deadline.com. The pilot order is for "Gulliver Quinn," which stars Heder…
What do actors Ethan Hawke, Angela Bassett, Terry O’Quinn and Michael Chiklis have in common? All four of the successful actors have projects that were passed over by networks for the 2011-12 season, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Hawke may…