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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.
An actress who has been nominated for three Oscars and two Emmys is joining the already star-studded cast of an upcoming HBO drama series, Deadline.com reports. "Luck" will be the first foray into series television for Joan Allen, who received…
A former teen sensation and star of "The Partridge Family" was arrested Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on a DUI charge, reports TMZ.com. David Cassidy’s car was reportedly weaving on the Florida Turnpike around 8 p.m. Wednesday when the Florida…
It was a bad Halloween for Emmy-winning local TV reporter Arthur Chi’en of WPIX in New York City, the New York Daily News reports. According to the story, "Chi’en suffered extensive facial fractures after being dragged off a Greenwich Village Halloween Parade…
George W. Bush insists that the worst moment of his eight-year presidency was when he heard that on TV, during a telethon to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, rapper Kanye West had said, ""George Bush doesn’t care…
"Law & Order: Los Angeles" had real police officers called to its shoot on Wednesday after a real gun was found on the scene, reports the Associated Press. The NBC crime drama was filming on-location in the Culver City area…
Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction series for Fox, "Terra Nova," has laid off most of its writing staff, although apparently the move wasn’t due to any trouble on the project, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. Those getting pink slips included "X-Files"…
One of the Palins forgot to vote on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Busy "Dancing with the Stars," Bristol Palin,20, says she forgot to send in her absentee ballot, reports the Associated Press. According to the article, Bristol Palin told "Inside Edition," "I did…
Walt Disney Co. has agreed to sell the two smallest owned and operated stations in its 10-station ABC Owned Television Stations Group back to their former owner, SJL Broadcasting, reports B&C. The stations, WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan and WTVG in…
"Oprah Winfrey gave Cisco’s soon-to-be-released Umi Telepresence a boost on her show Wednesday when she used the video-chatting device to connect her with friends that she met during a recent episode’s visit to Yosemite National Park. The use of Umi…
Huh? What is Jon Stewart doing on U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s briefing list? Says an article by Bloomberg News, "Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show,’ held an off-the-record meeting at Stewart’s office in New York…