Michael Ausiello/ˌɔːsiˈɛloʊ/ (born February 23, 1972) is an American television industry journalist, author, and actor. He was a senior writer at TV Guide and its companion website, TVGuide.com, between 2000 and 2008.[2] From 2008 to 2010, he wrote and reported for Entertainment Weekly before launching his own television news site, TVLine.[3][4][5] Ausiello also published a memoir in 2017, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.