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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.
The major cable news outlets are drawing heat for their handling of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, with TV critic Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter among the most vocal critics. “The triple threat in Japan–earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactors…
CMT announced Tuesday that it is launching a TV movie division, CMT Original Movies. Mary Beth Cunin, CMT’s senior vice president of programming, said in a statement that the new division will skew toward creating romantic comedies and music-driven films…
We previously reported that the cast of "Welcome Back, Kotter" will be reunited at the upcoming TV Land Awards, but they won’t be the only sitcom stars enjoying a reunion. TV Land announced Tuesday that the stars of NBC’s "The…
"MasterChef," "Hell’s Kitchen" and "So You Think You Can Dance" were given summer premiere dates by Fox, reports B&C. The dance competition "So You Think You Can Dance" will debut on Thursday, May 26 ,with a two-hour show, and then…
The share of the digital movie-viewing business controlled by a single company reached 61% between January and February, a new report from research firm NPD Group found. The results, reported by The Hollywood Reporter, combine downloads and streaming. The company…
Rocker Jon Bon Jovi gave a scathing assessment of the music industry in an interview with London’s Sunday Times Magazine, and he says he knows who to blame: Apple’s Steve Jobs. “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music…
One of the stars of the 1980s ABC hit “Moonlighting” has her eye on a return to a regular TV series role, Deadline.com reports. The ABC comedy pilot "My Freakin’ Family" has cast Cybill Shepherd in a lead role. Shepherd…
"Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire at another spewed large amounts of radioactive material into the air, according to the statements of…
Ratings for the big three-hour finale of ABC’s reality staple “The Bachelor,” while strong enough to push the network to an overall win for the night, were down a troubling 15% from the show’s spring 2010 finale, according to The…
Fox News has tapped a moderate Democrat to serve as an analyst leading up to the 2012 presidential election, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. The network has hired former Indiana senator Evan Bayh as a political commentator. The…