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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 new reality restaurant show is in the works at Spike TV, reports the New York Post. The program, called "On the Rocks," is similar to Fox’s "Kitchen Nightmares," in which chef Gordon Ramsay works with the owners of a…
Rapper Eminem and singer Christina Aguilera are set for cameo appearances in the finale of an HBO series, reports TV Guide. The show is "Entourage," the article says, adding that Aguilera is going to play a friend of Jeremy Piven’s character…
The former president/CEO of DirecTV has taken a new position as president and CEO of Freedom Communications, reports B&C. Mitchell Stern will begin his new job July 1. James Dunning Jr., Chairman of the Board of Freedom, said, "We are…
Larry King, who announced yesterday, Tuesday, June 29th, that he’s leaving his CNN show in June, told Bill Maher on King’s show last night who he thinks would make a good replacement for himself. It’s Ryan Seacrest. Here’s the transcript:…
One of the major stars of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is taking his first major TV role, reports TheWrap’s Box blog. [Note: we are having some trouble getting this link to work. If you cannot get to the story…
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man awaiting trail for allegedly murdering Peruvian Stephany Flores and who remains a person of interest in the 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, is refusing to give television interviews unless he’s paid $1…
"The Oprah Winfrey Show" recorded its lowest ever ratings last week since the program began in 1986, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The show recorded an all-time low of a 3.0 household rating, representing a 23% slide from a year earlier. Meanwhile, "Judge…
Despite trips to Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, Anderson Cooper’s ratings remain in the doldrums and the CNN host is entertaining offers from other networks, TheWrap.com’s The Box blog reports. Cooper, whose contract with CNN expires next year, has…
"The Kilborn Files" underwhelmed in the ratings with its debut on Monday night, pulling a 1.0 rating across the seven Fox-owned stations on which it aired, B&C reports. Its best rating came from Austin, where the program pulled a 1.3…
The Emmy Award-winning co-composer of one of the most recognizable show themes in TV history has died, the New York Times reports. TV music composer Allyn Ferguson died on June 23 at his home in Westlake Village, California at the…