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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.

Robert Redford Movie Being Adapted for NBC

NBC has a new project in the works that’s an adaptation of a popular Robert Redford movie. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network gave a script order to a reboot of the 1992 hacker feature “Sneakers.” Walter…

Justin Bieber Storms Off the Stage in Latest Concert Meltdown

Pop superstar Justin Bieber had another bad moment on stage Sunday, storming off the stage in the midst of a concert because his fans were screaming too much, E! News reports. The incident took place during a stop in Manchester,…

Real Trolls Swing Shovels: ‘SNL’s’ Leslie Jones Goes Off on Her Hackers — Watch the Video

“Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones, who was victimized by a vicious hack in August, took to the “Weekend Update” desk on Saturday’s installment of the NBC sketch show to respond to her hackers — a response that regular…

How Tom Hanks Helped Boost ‘SNL’ to Eight-Year Highs — Watch These Fun Clips

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has been on a roll this season, and the latest installment appeared to get a bump from Tom Hanks — both in the ratings and creatively. Hanks participated in numerous skits, including appearing as debate moderator Chris…

Tom Hayden, Famed 1960s Anti-Vietnam War Activist and Former Husband of Jane Fonda, Dies

Longtime political activist and former lawmaker Tom Hayden, who rose from the counterculture movement of the late ’60s to become a California state legislator and an important player in progressive politics, has died. The New York Times reports that Hayden,…

Must Read No. 1: Making Sense of AT&T’s $85 Billion Bid for Time Warner

Jeffrey Bewkes, now the chief executive of Time Warner, “once described his company’s colossal failure of a merger with AOL” this way: “You had a lot of people saying you should’ve combined a donkey with a rabbit and gotten a…

Another Must Read: Will the Ghost of AOL Haunt the Time Warner-AT&T Deal? Culture Clash Too?

Writes Recode’s Kara Swisher: “You could write books on what went wrong [with AOL’s merger with Time Warner in 2000] — and I did — which raises the question of what Time Warner now thinks will go right in the deal it…

Must Read No. 3: Here’s the Argument Explaining Why It Makes No Sense for AT&T (or Even Apple, for That Matter) to Own Time Warner

“Too bad the [$85 billion AT&T/Time Warner] deal doesn’t make much sense,” writes Edmund Lee on the Recode website. He continues, “Here’s why: A company that owns pipes, whether over the air or through the ground, doesn’t actually benefit from…

Massive Cyber-Attack Hits Major Websites

Websites including Netflix, Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Tumblr and Reddit were hit with a massive cyber-attack today, with USA Today reporting that the attack was coming in “multiple waves.” The attack made it impossible at times for users on the East…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Roast Each Other at the Annual Al Smith Dinner — Here’s the Video

The two major party presidential candidates traded in their usual stump speeches for comedy material at the annual Al Smith Dinner, seizing on the opportunity to take broad swipes at each other — including occasionally going too far, according to…