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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.
A man arrested this week as part of a suspected terrorist plot has been identified as an aspiring singer who tried out for Canada’s version of "American Idol" in 2008, the Kingston Whig-Standard reports. Here is the audition tape in…
Jay Mariotti, a sports columnist best known for his appearances on ESPN’s "Around the Horn," has been suspended indefinitely by his other employer, AOL, following his arrest last week, according to TheWrap. Mariotti, who has been a contributor to AOL’s…
With Katie Couric’s CBS contract coming to an end next spring and “CBS Evening News" stuck in third place, there’s been speculation that Couric might leave the network, and now NBC’s Jeff Zucker is saying her former home would be…
On a slow summer night, CBS’s reality show "Big Brother" was Thursday’s highest-rated program in the Nielsens, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m. "Big Brother" had a 2.7 in the 18-49 demographic. ABC’s "Rookie Blue" was tops at 9 p.m. with…
The official ABC announcement isn’t coming out till Monday during the broadcast of "The Bachelor Pad," but several more stars’ names have surfaced and they’re apparently confirmed for the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars," according to E! Online….
Known as the “Spanish Oprah,” the most famous talk show host on Spanish-language television is following in the footsteps of Oprah Winfrey and will end her Univision program in November, the AP reports. Cristina Saralegui’s "El Show de Cristina" has…
An Oscar-winning actor has signed on to play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in HBO’s movie "Too Big to Fail," reports Deadline.com. The actor is William Hurt, who won an Oscar in 1986 for his starring role in “Kiss of the…
An actor who has played James Bond in the movies will make an appearance on NBC’s "Chuck" as a mystery man with ties to Chuck’s mother, reports EW.com’s The Ausiello Files. The actor is Timothy Dalton, who played Agent 007…
One of the popular cast members of "Saturday Night Live" won’t be returning to the latenight series this fall. It’s Will Forte, who played the character MacGruber on the show, among other characters. According to the New York TImes, a…
About 20 years ago, the blue power ranger on Fox’s “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” went to live on another planet. But the reality behind the character’s inter-planetary move was that the actor who played the part, David Yost, walked off…