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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.

The Weather Outside Is Frightful, But Freeform’s Funday Is So Delightful! Enjoy the Weekend-Long Programming Event

Press release from Freeform, Jan. 3, 2017: Grab some hot cocoa and a snuggly blanket while enjoying the warmth alongside your favorite movie buff with Freeform’s Funday weekend, a two-day programming event featuring beloved Disney classics, starting SATURDAY, JANUARY 21…

Amazon Prime Video Greenlights Season Three of Emmy Award-Winning and Top-Streamed Original Dramatic Series ‘The Man in the High Castle’

Press release from Amazon, Jan. 3, 2017: Amazon today announced it has greenlit a third season of the original dramatic series The Man in the High Castle. Additionally, Eric Overmyer (Treme, Bosch, The Affair) will serve as showrunner and executive…

How Television Saved the Movies From … Television. Marketer’s Delight

An assessment of the Hollywood movie experience in theaters, circa fall 1953: “The screen widens, the dimension deepens, the track trebles, carpenters arrive to alter the ratio, the industry shifts massively to meet the threat of television. Like a tyrannosaurus…

NBCUniversal Broadcast and Cable Channels May Go Dark on Charter Systems

NBCUniversal is warning that its broadcast and cable networks may be about to go dark for subscribers to Charter Communications systems, Bloomberg reports. The two companies face a Jan. 1 deadline as they continue to struggle to find common ground…

Serena Williams Gets Engaged to Reddit Co-Founder

Tennis superstar Serena Williams took to Reddit to announce that she is engaged to marry the site’s co-founder, Alexis Ohanian. The post includes a drawing by Ohanian, which you can see below, along with a poem by Williams telling the…

HBO Sets Airing of Carrie Fisher’s One-Woman Show — Other Networks Also Lining Up Tributes to Fisher and Her Mom, Debbie Reynolds

A number of television outlets have scheduled tributes to Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher, after the deaths of both women this week. HBO announced that it will re-air Fisher’s one-woman show, “Wishful Drinking,” on New Year’s Day at…

Upcoming TV Documentary Examines Debbie Reynolds-Carrie Fisher Relationship

A documentary that was completed before the tragic deaths this week of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher is headed to HBO. Variety reports that “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” is “a chronicle of the extraordinary bond that…

See Debbie Reynolds’ Best and Most Famous Movie in Theaters, on the Big Screen, in a Few Weeks

By Chuck Ross The late Debbie Reynolds’ best movie — indeed, the movie that critic Pauline Kael called “probably the most enjoyable of all American movie musicals” — will be shown on about 800 screens around the country in January….

Steve Martin Gets Heat Over His Carrie Fisher Comments

Comedian Steve Martin came under fire for his comments following the death Tuesday of Carrie Fisher, with some social media users calling his tribute sexist. Time magazine reports that Martin later deleted the tweet that caused the backlash. Martin’s tweet…

Report: Why Univision Is a Teetering Giant

A new report says Univision, which has been the dominant Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S. for decades, is a “teetering giant,” saddled with a huge debt load and facing increased competition from NBC-owned Telemundo. The report by Media Life, part…