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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.
PBS’ "Nightly Business Report" has been sold to a private company headed by a former mixed martial arts manager, reports our friend Elizabeth Jensen in the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The show had been owned by public station…
Kevin Spacey, through his and Dana Brunetti’s Trigger Street Prods., is taking his cult-leader drama "The Crux" to HBO in a first-look deal, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. There isn’t a pilot order, the story adds. The project was shopped…
The latest larger-than-life actor to join ABC’s "Desperate Housewives" is a Broadway and movie star, as well as an Emmy nominee, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lainie Kazan, best known as the mother in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and…
Fox has yet to confirm it, but sources are reporting that a veteran rock singer has signed the deal to make him an "American Idol" judge, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The rocker is Steven Tyler, lead singer of the…
TV Land viewers will choose the top 50 episodes of a beloved CBS sitcom from the 1960s, to be aired in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the show. The show is "The Andy Griffith Show,” and starting today "50…
A veteran executive with NBC News has been promoted to senior broadcast producer, NBC News Investigations, reports TVNewser. Robert Dembo has been with NBC News for 14 years, doing a variety of jobs including director of national news coverage, senior producer…
"Law & Order: Los Angeles" won’t be the only Dick Wolf crime procedural shooting in Hollywood, reports Access Hollywood. "Law & Order: SVU" is shooting scenes there with the idea of introducing Skeet Ulrich from the new NBC show to…
TV legend Betty White, who’s having the year of a lifetime, is adding another project to her agenda, the AP reports. The 88-year-old Emmy Award-winning actress, who earlier this year became the oldest person to host “Saturday Night Live,” will…
An Oscar-winning and Emmy-nominated actor has been chosen as the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, the AP reports. The actor is Ernest Borgnine, who’s 93 years old and still working. SAG National President Ken Howard said in a…
A comedy troupe that had a popular TV show in the 1990s has reunited for the first time since 1996, for a four-hour miniseries to air beginning this week on the IFC Network, the AP reports. The show, "The Kids…