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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.
Singer Adam Lambert, the runner-up on season eight of Fox’s “American Idol” in 2009, has been accused of battery, according to a report on Entertainment Weekly’s Music Mix blog. The report stems from an incident Thursday night in Miami Beach…
TNT has ordered 10 more episodes of a cop drama that recently wrapped up its freshman season, Entertainment Weekly reports. The second season will run in 2011. The show is Jason Lee’s Elvis-oriented cop series "Memphis Beat," which ended its…
Four TV shows were honored Thursday with the Humanitas Prize, Zap2it reported. The award honors films and TV shows that “explore the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way,” the story reports. The TV shows are Fox’s “Glee,” ABC’s “Modern…
A TV legend who made a career out of hosting popular game shows collapsed Thursday while he was at a Los Angeles shooting range, TMZ.com reported. Bob Barker, 86, had reportedly been shooting when he fainted. He was said to…
By Chuck Ross There are a lot of movies with great dialogue. There’s "Casablanca," "His Girl Friday" and "The Godfather," just to name three. One of the movies with the most biting dialogue is the Bette Davis classic "All About…
Samsung has announced the "imminent availability" of its Media Hub media store, where downloads and rentals of video content will be offered for the company’s Galaxy line of phones and tablets, PCMag.com reports. The content will include programming from MTV…
One of the stars of James Cameron’s "Avatar" has agreed to take a key role in the new Fox sci-fi drama "Terra Nova," reports Deadline.com. Stephen Lang, who played Col. Miles Quaritch in “Avatar,” will be the villain opposite hero…
Two elaborate hoaxes were revealed today, one serious and one involving performance art. Bethany Storro, the 28-year old woman from Vancouver, Washington, who claimed that a woman assailant threw a cup of acid in her face has told police that…
Reality was the focus on the broadcast networks Wednesday night, with CBS premiering “Survivor: Nicaragua” while three major reality series–CBS’s “Big Brother,” NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and Fox’s “MasterChef”–aired their two-hour season finales. “Survivor” and “America’s Got Talent” finished the…
J.J. Abrams, one of the creative forces behind "Lost," "Alias" and "Felicity," among other TV and film projects, has received a commitment from Fox to produce a pilot for a series focusing on the infamous San Francisco Bay island prison…