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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.
Oprah Winfrey has unveiled a few hints about the upcoming final episode of the syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show," the Chicago Sun-Times reports. There’s a chance that the show, scheduled for spring 2011, will be broadcast from Soldier Field in the…
The co-star of a series on cable was arrested earlier this month for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor, reports TMZ.com. It was the co-star of TLC’s "Cake Boss," Remy Gonzalez, who is the brother-in-law of the show’s star, Buddy Valastro. Gonzalez has been…
Hey, it’s the dog-days, it’s hot, so what’s a little screaming meltdown between friends? Still, it may not go over too well with your bosses. MSNBC President Phil Griffin and NBC News Steve Capus gave MSNBC host Ed Schultz a…
Former Disney topper Michael Eisner might replace Tribune Chairman Sam Zell after the company emerges from bankruptcy. So says our good friend–and absolutely first rate reporter/editor–Sallie Hofmeister and two of her colleagues, Dawn C. Chmielewski and Michael Oneal, at the Tribune-owned…
Scotsman Sir Sean Connery, who once starred as James Bond in a number of movies, including "Never Say Never Again," has said just that. In an interview with the Edinburgh Evening News on the occasion of his 80th birthday yesterday, Aug….
Here’s another good reason to stay at home and watch television: bed bugs are coming to a movie theater near you — at least if you live in Manhattan, reports Nikki Finke at Deadline.com. In the latest manifestaion of the bed…
[AUGUST 27, 2010, 06:38 AM, PT: UPDATED with Hallmark’s response to AT&T’s resonse; AUGUST 26, 2010, 12:20 PM, PT: UPDATED with AT&T’s response] As we approach another month’s end we have the seemingly never ending confrontation between a program distributor–this…
"Mad Men’s" Christina Hendricks–who plays Joan Holloway on the series–has closed a deal to be the star of the latest ad campaign from apparel maker London Fog, reports U.K. publication DailyMail Online. According to the article, "London Fog featured in the opening…
The animated show "Futurama" has been sold in broadcast weekend syndication to Tribune’s stations for a debut in the fall of 2011, Twentieth Television has announced. The show, which first aired on Fox and now is shown in originals on…
The top four broadcasters kept their ratings stable over the summer months although struggled to find viewers for new scripted shows, while cable networks debuted scripted hits such as "Covert Affairs" on USA and "Rizzoli & Isles" on TNT, reports…