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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.
Even though Bryan Masche was arrested on domestic violence charges, WeTV has renewed his family’s reality show, "Raising Sextuplets", for a third season, reports Popeater.com’s Naughty but Nice blog. While cameras didn’t film the incident that led to Masche’s arrest,…
Showtime has changed the premiere date for its new program "Episodes" and the return of the David Duchovny comedy "Californication," reports the Hollywood Reporter. The shows were originally scheduled to air Monday, Jan. 10 but will now debut on Sunday,…
Attorneys for Amanda Knox, the American woman who was convicted in Italy of killing a fellow student and nicknamed "Foxy Knoxy" by the Italian press, are trying to halt a planned television movie starring Hayden Panettiere,the New York Post reports….
The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether or not an animated TV show is kosher. Following a complaint filed two weeks ago by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, the FCC is probing Nicktoon’s new "Zevo-3" cartoon for potential…
At the time of his death last month, "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Harold Dow was working on an hourlong report about a serial killer, Rodney Alcala, reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat. On Saturday, after receiving the help of Dow’s…
After Fox’s weak opening night Monday–led by a feeble turnout for the new drama “Lone Star”–the network got some needed good news on the second night of the fall season. Fox’s second-season premiere of “Glee” surged in the ratings, up…
By Chuck Ross On the heels of the news that troubled bookseller Barnes & Noble is closing its showcase store across from Lincoln Center in New York, TVWeek has learned from employees of the booksellers’ stores in two high-end neighborhoods in…
NBC had to be pleased with the numbers for the premiere of its centerpiece freshman show “The Event,” and the network plans to do everything possible to keep up momentum for the series, James Hibberd writes in The Hollywood Reporter….
Today, Fox had a big press event at the Los Angeles Forum to announce the three judges for the upcoming season of "American Idol," and it was just who we thought were going to be judges — Jennifer Lopez, Steven…
DirecTV is considering rolling back the price of its exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket package next year, reports MediaPost. In addition, DirecTV created a broadband version of NFL Sunday Ticket for outlets where satellite reception was not possible, such as Manhattan…