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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.
Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. TV are teaming up for a new hour drama based on the book and blog "The Lost Girls," and ABC has given the pilot a green light, reports Deadline.com. Jonathan Littman, who worked with…
The debut Fox drama "Lone Star" is on death watch after its disastrous premiere, reports the Hollywood Reporter. But the expected cancellation isn’t attracting gleeful schadenfreude, the story says. "The "Star" pilot drew critical acclaim and stood out from the…
Vincent D’Onofrio will return to "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" after USA Network closed a deal to bring back the drama for an eight-episode 10th season, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Talks are ongoing to bring back Kathryn Erbe and…
UPDATE: 5:27 AM PT 9/23/10–Corrects headline that incorrectly said a show partner was The Onion. As it correctly says below, this show is a potential competitor to that show. A former anchor on the "Weekend Update" segment of NBC’s "Saturday Night…
In the just-finished 2009-2010 network evening news season, when compared with the 2008-2009 season, the evening newscasts from NBC, ABC and CBS, have lost a combined 739,000 viewers reports TVNewser.com. Of that number, 338,000 of them were viewers between the ages of 25…
A wave of new content pirating services is making it easier to tap into bootlegged television shows, reports the Los Angeles Times, which likens the sites to "an underground version of TV Guide." Because of new sites such as Megavideo…
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is preparing to unveil a new tablet computer to challenge Apple’s iPad, which insiders are calling the BlackPad, reports the Wall Street Journal (Note: the online version of the Journal is behind a pay wall…
Bill Maher wants U.S. Senate hopeful Christine O’Donnell to appear on his current HBO show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," and is threatening to release more television clips of her from his old show, "Politcally Incorrect," until she comes back…
Another "Lost" star is returning to ABC in a guest-starring role in the midseason comedy "Mr. Sunshine," reports EW.com’s The Ausiello Files. The comedy, starring Matthew Perry, will feature "Lost’s" Jorge Garcia as an employee at the San Diego sports…