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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.
An FX show that was canceled despite earning raves from critics, which wrapped up its 13-episode season this week, is being shopped to other networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is “Lights Out,” a boxing drama from executive…
In a dispute over whether cable companies can allow their customers to watch cable networks over their iPads, both Time Warner Cable and Viacom filed lawsuits on Thursday, seeking to resolve the question, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder…
One of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” editions has been widely expected to get the ax, and now the network has made it official, reports The Washington Post. The network has canceled "The Real Housewives of D.C." “We had an amazing season…
A new name has surfaced as a contender to join Simon Cowell’s "The X Factor," which will debut on Fox in the fall, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The new contender is Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie….
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Board of Governors pulled off a surprise Thursday night, naming an outsider as CEO, the L.A. Times reported. The job went to Dawn Hudson, former head of Film Independent. Longtime Academy exec…
Three top television station groups are working together to offer a syndicated, interactive daily news show that will air this fall, reports TVNewsCheck. The program, "RightThisMinute," will use social media, citizen journalism, the Internet and mobile technology, the story says….
Showtime has announced that it is giving pickups to two shows–one drama and one comedy, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The shows are the hourlong drama "Homeland" and the half-hour comedy "House of Lies.” Claire Danes stars in "Homeland"…
Watching people save money at the grocery store is a hit for TLC, whose new reality show "Extreme Couponing" debuted with an average of 2.3 million viewers in back-to-back episodes Wednesday, reports TheWrap.com. The series was the top-ranked ad-supported cable…
CBS’s "How I Met Your Mother" will be shared in syndication by two networks, as FX will start airing the program in September while Lifetime, which signed a syndication deal for the show in 2008, will also air the program,…
CNN’s ratings have fallen along with a slowdown in breaking news from around the world, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The network’s prime-time numbers have settled back into third place, behind Fox News and…