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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.
Starz was so high on "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" that it renewed it for a second season before it even premiered season one, but now production has been shut down because the actor in the title character has been diagnosed…
Charlie Sheen will return to the set of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men” next week, TMZ reports, citing sources. Four episodes remain to be shot this season. Each night after shooting the show, Sheen must return to rehab, the report…
Actor Corey Haim died overnight of an apparent accidental overdose, the Los Angeles Police Department confrmed to TV station KTLA in Los Angeles, says the Los Angeles Times. The 38-year-old was best known for his work in the film “The Lost…
As expected, it looks as if Fox will shut down "24" at the end of this season,Variety reports. [Note: Variety is behind a firewall, so you might be asked to register and/or pay to see this story.] "24" is one…
Even as Viacom prepared to pull “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” from Hulu last night at midnight, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman was telling investors that the shows could eventually return, Multichannel News reports. Speaking at…
A consortium of cable operators and satellite distributors, with Time Warner Cable in the lead, is asking the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in what they say is a broken retransmission consent system, a number of media outlets our reporting. The group has…
A hit cable series is about to get one of its most unusual tributes yet: Mattel plans to bring out Barbie and Ken dolls modeled on four of its characters, the New York Times reports. The show is “Mad Men”…
3D fanatics can see the upcoming NCAA Men’s Final Four semifinal and national championship games live in the format, but they’ll have to trek to the theater to do so, B&C reports. CBS said it will broadcast the games in…
Keri Russell is considering returning to TV, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The report says that Russell is negotiating to star opposite Will Arnett in Fox’s comedy pilot "Wilde Kingdom," Since her days as the lead in J.J. Abrams’ "Felicity" on The…
ABC will re-air “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The Academy Awards” on Saturday night at 10 p.m., almost a week after its original broadcast, B&C reports. Sunday’s original broadcast drew 4.7 million viewers, enough to make it the late-night host’s third-biggest…