38,865 Entries
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.
Fox’s "Glee" and ABC’s "Modern Family" shared the top award for outstanding comedy awarded by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The shows were honored at GLAAD’s 22nd annual awards ceremony. "Glee" had won…
Ratings for The Masters Tournament on CBS were 13% below last year’s household numbers in the top markets, Bloomberg reported, as a late charge by Tiger Woods faltered over the last nine holes and a golfer who is relatively unknown…
A member of a political family is a front-runner to replace Matt Lauer on "Today," reports the New York Post. Chris Cuomo, the son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in December 2009 was moved off "Good Morning America,"…
Katie Couric may join forces with her former “Today” co-host Matt Lauer as she pursues creating her own syndicated talk show, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times. The pairing would be "intensely complicated," Carter writes, pointing out that…
Pia Toscano, a front-runner on Fox’s "American Idol" who got booted off the show last week, has landed a record deal with Interscope Records, reports USMagazine.com. Interscope is chaired by "Idol" mentor Jimmy Iovine, the story notes. Interscope told her…
With the recent death of Elizabeth Taylor, there is renewed interest in her movies. She made some fine movies and one great one, the latter which TCM presented–uncut and with no commercials, as usual–on Sunday night, April 10, 2011. Even…
"ABC affiliates might help the network pay for U.S. rights to telecast the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and 2016 Summer Olympics, the head of the ABC board said after the board met on Sunday," April 10, 2011, reports our friend…
A live-action comedy pilot from a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” has been ordered by Adult Swim, Deadline.com reports. The show is "Regal Productions," produced by and starring former "SNL" writer Bob Odenkirk. Brian Jarvis and Jim Freeman, who…
Fox has given a script commitment to a drama starring the former star of CBS’s “Joan of Arcadia,” reports Deadline.com. The show is from "House" executive producer Katie Jacobs and "The Wire" co-creator Ed Burns, and stars Amber Tamblyn, who…
Director Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best director after the release of his first feature film—a remake of an episode of “Studio One” that had been first shown live on TV—died Saturday, April 9, 2011….