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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.
Entertainment Weekly has made it’s its pick of the best new show on TV, the magazine reports. The show is AMC’s magnum corpus delightful, "The Walking Dead." Here’s an anecdote series star Andrew Lincoln tells EW happened when he was…
Several shows have moved from being bubble series and are now likely to be canceled, writes Robert Seidman at TVbytheNumbers.com. The shows in trouble include Fox’s "Lie to Me" and NBC’s "The Event," with Fox’s "Fringe" and "Human Target" also…
The cast of MTV’s "Jersey Shore" are planning to demand their own spinoff shows as part of their new deals, reports the New York Post’s Page Six The cast is about to start negotiations for their work on a new…
Leslie Nielsen, who started out his career playing serious heroes and later became more successfully known as a comic actor in films such as “Airplane!,” and in the short-lived “Police Squad” TV series, has died. He was 84. Nielsen died…
Three TV projects on the drawing boards at Eva Longoria’s Unbelievable Entertainment, according to Deadline.com. One is "Sendera," a project is from Longoria’s Unbelievable Entertainment and Kathryn Morris’s Hotplate Prods. and ABC Studios, the story notes. It’s described as a…
A project described as "Desperate Housewives" meets "The Sopranos" has been given a pilot script commitment, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Bird York, who earned an Oscar nomination for the song "In the Deep" for the film "Crash," is writing…
One of the actors who was on "The Sopranos" has been signed to host a docu-drama cable series about Mafia hitmen titled "Nothing Personal," reports The Hollywood Reporter. The host will be Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccalieri (Tony Soprano’s…
The Federal Communications Commission has postponed its net neutralilty vote by almost three weeks, "prompting speculation the agency is getting its ducks in a row for a vote on the politically polarized issue," reports InformationWeek. THe vote, originally set for…
It’s always a dilemma for TV stations: how to get consumers to keep coming back to your website. We like what Gannett’s WGRZ in Buffalo has done this morning, with it’s screaming headline "CYBER MONDAY 2010: Find Every Big Deal…
A lot to watch on TV before the weekend is out. According to TVaholic, if you define a marathon as "at least five hours of the same show or type of movie," there are over 80 marathons on TV on…