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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.
Tuesday night was an easy win in the ratings for ABC’s "Dancing With the Stars" results show amid mostly reruns and election coverage, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m. "Dancing" was ahead of NBC’s "The Biggest Loser," with an average…
NBC will begin a new pitch to advertisers, media agencies and Nielsen officials on Thursday, and it goes something like this: the 55 to 64 year-old demographic is the new 18 to 34 year-old segment, reports our friend John Consoli…
An NBA player who was all set to make a cameo appearance on a prime-time TV series was a no show, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. CBS’s "The Good Wife," which is set in Chicago although filmed in…
With yesterday’s mid-term election landslide for the Republicans, one wonders what Obama and the Democrats were thinking. Or maybe they weren’t. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross has seen this kind of behavior before in other industries, including in the…
Facebook knows when you’ll be dumped, CNN reports. According to the story, a British journalist studied "10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases ‘breakup’ and ‘broken up.’They found two big spikes on the calendar for breakups. The first was after…
MTV has apologized to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for a "Jersey Shore" scene involving Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino calling another club-goer "a tranny," reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. The alliance considers the term a slur…
Judging frrom what Deadline.com is calling a "less buzzworthy cast," it is indeed harder to find celebs who will "Skate With the Stars" than go "Dancing With the Stars." The motley crew that will participate in the "Danciing" spinoff on…
Bill Maher said during a CNN interview that the joint smoked by Zach Galifianakis on "Real Time" on Friday wasn’t actually pot, reports AOL’s popEater.com. To see actual footage of what happened, please click here. ""If it was a real…
"Sex and the City" producer and writer Michael Patrick King’s potential new show appears to center on a straight owner of a high-end hair salon who goes through a midlife crisis,reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. One…
The CW drama "LIfe Unexpected" will likely have a short and final season after the network decided against ordering any episodes beyond the program’s original 13-episode order, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Although the show has been critically praised, it’s…