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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.
Our good friend Harry Jessell, who runs the editorial at TVNewsCheck and who, for many years was a reporter and then the editor who ran B&C, unearthed an important video the other day that everyone connected with TV should watch,…
Peter Graves, who was best known for his role as leader of a group of special agents in the TV show “Mission: Impossible,” died Sunday of an apparent heart attack, according to various media reports. He was to have turned…
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with its annual "The State of the News Media Report." A quick glance shows that the only delivery methods of news that have increased in numbers of viewers and users, year…
A severe storm on the East Coast Saturday night knocked out the premiere of Lifetime’s heavily promoted original movie, “Who is Clark Rockefeller?” The network said Sunday that it temporarily lost transmission power during the telecast due to the punishing…
The national Screen Actors Guild board agreed to team up with the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists for joint bargaining on a new primetime TV contract, TheWrap reports. Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will…
Larry David says his HBO sitcom "Curb Your Enthusiasm" will probably come back for another season, Reuters reports. Six seasons of the show already have been made and aired. According to the article, "I think there’s a pretty good chance…
One of the biggest stars of Scipps’ Food Network has agreed to join the judging for NBC’s forthcoming reality series, "America’s Next Great Restaurant," reports The Hollywood Reporter. Chef Bobby Flay, who will be an investor, and mentor on the show, will…
It’s the 14th (!) season of Comedy Central’s "South Park" debuting this week on Wednesday, March 17th, and the irreverent comedy will take on Tiger Woods and his sex scandal in the season opener, according to celebrity cafe. According to the article, "South…
David Schwimmer, who played Ross on ‘Friends,’ and who almost married his British girlfriend Emily in one of most popular episodes of that series, has just become engaged to his longtime girlfriend, British photographer Zoe Buckman, according to Entertainment Weekly. It…
Last September, Netflix awarded $1 million to a group that figured out a way to improve Netflix’s software that makes movie recommendations for its customers. The challenge was to improve the software by 10%. NetFlix had made the challenge back in 2006. The…