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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.
On a generally slow night in the Nielsen ratings, NBC’s "America’s Got Talent" beat out the competition to be the top show Wednesday night, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m. CBS’s "Big Brother" had a 2.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic,…
One of the anchors on HLN has decided to leave the network, reports TVNewser. The news anchor is Richard Lui, who is expected to land at another network news desk, although the network is yet to be named. Lui worked…
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, in London to promote their current film "Knight and Day," will prove that they have a need for speed–like Cruise’s "Top Gun" character–when they appear on BBC’s automotive show "Top Gear," reports the AP. Cruise…
The injury curse has struck again on Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance," where for the third week in a row a participant was hurt and could not compete, reports TV Guide. Billy Bell, a 20-year-old contemporary dancer, suffered…
It didn’t take long for CBS to get tired of the low ratings for a certain police drama. The network has decided to drop the Canadian show "The Bridge" after just three broadcasts, reports TV Squad. The import failed to…
A reporter best known for his Michael Jackson documentary, who is currently a co-anchor on ABC’s "Nightline," is leaving the network to join MSNBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In addition to contributing to NBC’s "Dateline," Martin Bashir will get…
Mark Zuckerberg, the enterprising Harvard grad who created Facebook and is the subject of the upcoming movie "The Social Network," will play himself on a fall episode of Fox’s "The Simpsons," reports New York Magazine. In the episode called "Loan-A…
CBS College Sports Network has extended its deal with Conference USA for TV rights to football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and 16 other sports, including regular season and championship coverage, through 2016, reports Multichannel News. The current deal was…
CBS has ordered a daytime talk show to replace a long-running soap opera after it ends in the fall, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The concept for the show, which replaces “As the World Turns,” is being…
Sheriff’s detectives in Los Angeles are looking into extortion allegations against Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend, reports USA Today. A sheriff’s spokesman confirmed that the agency is probing whether Oksana Grigorieva tried to extort the actor, according to the story. The spokesman…