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Chuck Ross

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.

CW Orders Nine More Scripts of ‘Vampire Diaries’; Picks Up ‘One Tree Hill’ for Full Season

The CW has ordered nine more scripts of  "Vampire Diaries," reports Variety. The network aldo gave a full-season order to its seventh-season drama “One Tree Hill,” after first ordering just 13 episodes this year, Variety says. The network also added to an order for the remake…

Tennis Channel, Cablevision’s Come to Terms (They Couldn’t of Done this a Month Ago so we Coulda Seen the Open?)

Tennis Channel said it will make its programming available to Cablevision’s sports tier, ending its attempt to get a better channel position in the New York area, reports Multichannel News. A long stalemate between the two over where the channel…

Some of You are Thinking it, So We’ll Say it: What’s up With Oprah, of All People, Giving Airtime to MacKenzie Phillips Saying She Had Incest With Her Dad? Is it a Ratings Ploy?

Being journalists, people whisper things to us that they might not otherwise say out loud. In the last 24-hours those whisperings to us have become a loud roar: Should Oprah, perhaps the most well-respected and influential person on TV today,…

Mark Burnett Tapped to Produce Next ‘People’s Choice Awards’

“Survivor” producer Mark Burnett will turn his attention next to reinvigorating "The People’s Choice Awards," the Associated Press reports. He said that the 36-year-old show, which will air live in January, in the past has “tried to jam in too…

‘True Blood’ Meets ’24’

Stephen Root, who played Eddie Gautier, a vampire crazy about Lafayette in HBO’s "True Blood," has joined the cast of  "24" for a multiepisode appearance,  reports The Hollywood Reporter. Ah ha! So next season must have something to do with Jack saving us from vampires! …

It’s Official (we guess): Group Says Most Influential Word From TV in 2009 is…’ObamaVision’

Using a proprietary algorithm, a Texas-based company says "ObamaVision" is the most influential word from TV this year, Reuters reports. The company, Global Language Monitor, released  what it calls its list of top ten telewords–the most influential words from TV– to…

Report: At Just a 1.5 Rating Leno’s Show Could Make NBC $300 Million a Year

If "The Jay Leno Show" averages a 1.5 rating for the year, the show could make $300 million a year for NBC, reports The Hollywood Reporter. John Ferriter, head of unscripted programming for talent agency WME, gave that assessment on…

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Reveals Why He Gave His Michael Jackson Tapes to ‘Dateline’ to Air This Friday Night; It’s Partly About the Pain Michael was in About His Childhood

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who was a spirtual advisor to Michael Jackson for a time, reveals why he gave his taped conversations to NBC’s "Dateline" in this piece he wrote for the Jerusalem Post. In one passage in the article Schmuley…

FBI Had Files on Walter Cronkite, But Destroyed Them

The FBI had files on Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS newsman who died earlier this year at age 92. Under federal law, with Cronkite’s death, the files can be made public. However, in this case that’s not going to happen,…

Cast Members of ‘Modern Family’ Will Tweet Commentary During Series Debut Tonight

"Modern Family," the ABC comedy whose pilot has become a favorite of TV critics, debuts tonight with tweet commentary from two of its stars, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, EW.com reports. The actors will not be tweeting on behalf…