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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 Vampire Diaries" may get a companion series, with its co-creator and executive producer Kevin Williamson working on the new project, Deadline.com reports. The untitled project is described as "The X-Files" meets "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," with a group of…
A top syndication executive is leaving CBS Television Distribution, reports The Hollywood Reporter. It’s Terry Wood. Wood is currently president of creative affairs and development, overseeing all new program creation and production for the syndicator, the story notes. According to…
After it struck a deal with Netflix to be its content delivery network for online-video streaming, Level 3 says Comcast demanded a recurring fee "to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’s customers who request such content," according…
Judy Vogel, well known for her research expertise, has been hired by media agency Media Storm as its first ever director of insights and analysis, the agency has announced. Media Storm is located in South Norwalk, CT and has an office…
CBS is close to a deal for a two-year pick up of "The Bold and the Beautiful," the only half-hour daytime drama on air,reports Deadline.com. The renewal comes on the heels of CBS’ decision to give a three-year renewal to…
AMC’s "The Walking Dead" is showing that zombies have a lot of life in them, with the program reporting its best numbers for Sunday’s episode, its fifth and penultimate, reports Mediaweek.com. The episode drew 5.56 million total viewers, and also…
" ‘Cyber Monday came in as the biggest shopping day of the year so far,’ said John Squire, chief strategy officer of Coremetrics, a unit of IBM Corp," CNNMoney reports. Furthermore, "Online sales on Cyber Monday surged nearly 20% from…
Two comedy pilots, one from Fran Drescher have received the greenlight, reports Deadline.com’s Nellie Andreeva. The pilots are for TV Land. The Drescher project is called "Happily Divorced," is written and executive produced by Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson. "Happily Divorced" could star Drescher,…
The Emmy-nominated film director who is probably best known for directing the second "Star Wars" movie, "The Empire Strikes Back," died Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 87 following a long illness, reports the AP. The director, Irvin Kershner,…
One of the original "Real Housewives of Orange County," a former Playboy centerfold, wants to branch out into a talk show next and is pitching the idea to networks, reports RadarOnline.com. Bravo reality TV veteran Jeana Keough, who was recently…