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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.
Paul Conrad, whose biting, take-no-prisoner political cartoons helped shape the national reputation of the Los Angeles Times, has died at 86 ,the newspaper reports. Of Conrad–who won three Pulitzer Prizes–the LA Times wrote, "His unyielding liberal stance, delivered as savage…
Evidently nothing gets Jerry Lewis, 84, more enraged than an out-of-control starlet, according to an interview with Lewis on Inside Edition. Lewis, who will host the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon for the 60th time this weekend, unleashed a rant about Lindsay…
Jennifer Lopez is in final negotiations to join "American Idol" as a judge, reports TMZ.com. The deal could be signed as early as next week, the story says. The show’s producers believe she could help re-energize the Fox show, the…
One of television’s biggest shows may be moving to the Big Apple, reports the New York Post. Fox’s hit comedy "Glee" will enter its second season with the show choir trying to make its way to New York City for…
It’s not like Barnes and Noble is some great monument to independent bookselling–quite the opposite, in fact. Nevertheless, TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross, in today’s entry, tells why the closing of the Barnes and Noble bookstore across from LIncoln…
Not surprisingly, ESPN’s Erin Andrews is receiving special treatment at hotels following her stalker ordeal, in which a man booked rooms next to hers and shot videos of her through a peephole, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. When…
"Law & Order: Los Angeles," the newest version of the crime drama that will debut later this month, is pledging to carry on the same tradition as the original "L&O" show by hiring local theater talent, reports the Los Angeles…
Om Malik of Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek thinks the answer is yes. Of all of Apple’s announcements on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, Malik writes that "the most impressive to me by far was Ping, the music-only social network that Apple is opening…
Comedian Dana Carvey’s untitled sketch show project at Fox is dead, reports Joe Adalian at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The show was to pair Carvey with former Fox late-night host Spike Feresten, but Fox was working on the project…
This Labor Day weekend is a wonderful opportunity to see two stars who basically defined TV in its early days in one of their few movie appearances together. It’s Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, in the closest they came to making…