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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 "Family Guy" episode called "Partial Terms of Endearment" that deals with abortion and was banned from television by Fox, will be released in September as a stand-alone DVD, reports the New York Times. Fox declined to elaborate on its…
The cast of MTV’s "Jersey Shore" is close to a deal giving them a nearly 200% pay raise, reports former TVWeeker James Hibberd at the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The cast had asked the network for $30,000 per…
Oxygen is picking up a reality show starring singer Aubrey O’Day as she tries to make a comeback in the music industry, reports the Hollywood Reporter. O’Day was part of the girl band Danity Kane in 2004 when it was…
Starz is teaming with book publisher Penguin Group to create an electronic version of one of its miniseries for three Apple products, reports B&C. The eight-hour television series of Ken Follett’s "The Pillars of Earth" will debut on Friday, July 23,…
Gregory Itzin, who played the disgraced U.S. President Charles Logan on ’24,’ has been cast in another role as an elected official, reports EW.com’s The Ausiello Files. Itzin will play Senator Richard Dwyer, the Republican Majority Leader of Utah’s State…
One of the co-creators of “Glee” has scored one of the biggest deals ever for a TV writer-producer, spanning television, music and theater, reports Deadline.com. Ryan Murphy is reportedly closing a new four-year $24 million deal with “Glee” producer 20th…
It’s baby boomer delight as three TV comic actor icons who the boomers grew up watching are in a love triangle. The three are Betty White, Carl Reiner ("The Dick Van Dyke Show" "Your Show of Shows,") and Tim Conway…
Character actor James Gammon, who appeared in major films such as “Urban Cowboy,” “Silverado” and “Cold Mountain” along with a wide range of TV roles, has died, USA Today reports. Before the rugged-looking Gammon became an actor he was a…
The Audience Research Foundation (ARF) has tapped a media research veteran for the post of EVP Media, ARF has announced. It’s TVWeek friend David Marans, whose last position was Research Director at A&E Networks. Marans spent 25 years doing research…
In the new fall season, one of the stars of CBS’s "Criminal Minds" will be appearing not just on that show but also on the show’s new spinoff, "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior," reports Deadline.com. CBS confirmed in a press release…