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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.
After longtime Oscars writer Bruce Vilanch told New York Magazine that James Franco had failed as the host of the Academy Awards, Franco took umbrage, reports TV Guide. Vilanch, a comic who’s written jokes for nearly every Oscars broadcast in…
One of HBO’s most successful sports programs, "Hard Knocks," is coming back later this year–assuming there’s an NFL season–and indications are that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the leading candidates to be featured, reports SportsNewser.com. The Bucs are perceived as…
Netflix has just struck a deal for its first original series, “House of Cards,” starring Kevin Spacey, putting itself in direct competition with premium cable channels. But Showtime was already prepared for battle, Crain’s New York Business reported. By midyear,…
“Judge Judy” took the top spot in the daytime syndication ratings for the week ended March 13, beating “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for the first time in nine weeks, TVNewsCheck reported. Following the February sweeps period, most shows went into…
ABC got a strong performance from the two-hour season premiere of “Dancing With the Stars” and scored a big win for the night overall in Monday’s overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC finished the night with a 4.5 average rating in adults…
Two major comic actors are set to guest-star in this season’s finale of "The Office," reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The two are Ricky Gervias, who co-created and starred in the original British version of "The Office," and Will Arnett….
Fueled by a report on Radar online and a tweet by NBC reporter Jeff Rossen, the Internet was rife with rumors on Monday, March 21, 2011, that CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is trying to be a peacemaker between Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros. and…
CNN correspondent Nic Robertson is rejecting a Fox News report that he and other journalists were used as human shields by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, reports CNN.com. The report said a planned British missile attack on one of Qaddafi’s compounds was…
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama pilot about a cable news show is in talks with a three-time Golden Globe nominee about a starring role,reports Deadline.com. It’s actor Jeff Daniels, who would play Will McCallister, a news anchor who has his own show…
As TVWeek has reported, Charlie Sheen has indeed met with some top executives at Fox. In his latest blog entry, TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross fantasizes an interesting role for Sheen on the Fox network (hint: think "Idol"). To read this fun…