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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.
Ratings for the new season of “American Idol” are off from past seasons, but they’re still strong enough to give Fox nightly wins in the prime-time tallies. It happened again Thursday, when Fox ended the night as the top network…
After a standoff with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, the Los Angeles Unified School District has suspended filming of reality television shows, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Oliver had been filming his "Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution" at West…
"Verizon said it ceased iPhone sales at 8:10 p.m. EST on Thursday after inventory it had set aside for existing customers ran out, " Reuters reports, continuing, "It had starting taking pre-orders for the device at 3 a.m. that morning…
The new season premiere of "The Real Housewives of New York City" has been pushed back because it lacks catfights and drama, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. According to the story, Bravo executive Andy Cohen emailed the show’s…
Jennifer Aniston turned down a job on "Saturday Night Live" in order to sign on for "Friends," reports the Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. Aniston made her remarks on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, the story says. …
The husband of former E! personality Jules Asner, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, 48, has been slapped with a paternity suit, according to the Associated Press. Says the article, "Frances Lawrencina Anderson’s paternity suit says the "Traffic" and "Ocean’s Eleven" director…
A senior, unnamed executive at News Corp–which co-owns Hulu–says Hulu’s CEO job is in jeopardy due to a blog the CEO has written that knocks traditional TV, according to the respected Business Insider website. According to the article, "A top…
Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen’s estranged wife, is in negotiations to compete on the next season of ABC’s "Dancing with the Stars," RadarOnline reports. According to the article, "Brooke’s agent and ‘Dancing’s’ producers are in talks about her competing on the…
No one is talking, and Fox has insisted a "24" movie is not currently in the works. But we love this juicy tidbit.: Our hero, Kiefer "Jack Bauer" Sutherland "was spotted enthusiastically discussing the planned "24" movie with director Ron Howard,…
Pre-Super Bowl commercial time is in unusually high demand this year, with advertisers ranging from Kraft Foods’ Ritz crackers to Ford Motor buying up time before the kick off to either help their Super Bowl ad buy or to participate…