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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.

Michael Strahan Developing Drama for ABC

Michael Strahan is developing a drama project for ABC. In his first sale of a scripted project, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Strahan, a longtime co-host of Kelly Ripa on her morning show, received a script commitment for “Hobbs,” about…

Executive Exits Viacom After More Than 20 Years at the Company

Just a few days after the ouster of CEO Philippe Dauman was completed, an executive who has been with Viacom for more than 20 years has left the company. Deadline.com reports that Carl Folta, the company’s head of corporate communications,…

Cable Comes Up With a Strategy Against Cord Cutting

Cable companies appear to be migrating toward a new approach in the fight against cord cutting, with the New York Post describing the strategy as being more like Netflix. “US pay TV customers will have more chances this fall to…

Columnist Makes the Case for Fox News to Evolve Into a Less Partisan Network

While he’s not arguing with the success of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch in building Fox News Channel into a $1.5 billion-a-year profit machine, columnist Jack Shafer, writing on Politico, recaps the channel’s success story and makes the argument that…

Wow! Tesla’s New Battery Makes It the Third-Fastest-Accelerating Car Ever

With a new bigger, badder battery, the new Tesla electric cars are ridiculously fast — or, in Tesla parlance, ludicrously fast. Recode reports that company chief Elon Musk, talking with journalists on a conference call Tuesday, revealed that the new…

FBI Investigating Possible Russian Hack of New York Times, Other Journalists

“Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at The New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter,” CNN reports. “The intrusions,…

‘Law & Order’ Star Dies

An actor who was a fixture on the NBC procedural “Law & Order,” who also played the original head of the Impossible Missions Force on “Mission: Impossible,” has died. USA Today reports that Steven Hill died today in New York….

Guess Who’s the World’s Highest-Paid Actress

The world’s highest-paid actress of the past year is probably just who you think it is. The Forbes list, which was released today, has Jennifer Lawrence at No. 1 for the second year in a row. Lawrence earned $46 million,…

‘Today’ Show Regular Steps Down, Says He Will ‘Pass the Hat to a Guy With Another Big Head’

A changing of the guard has taken place on NBC’s “Today” show, with the on-air announcement Monday that Willie Geist is quitting his regular gig on the show’s third hour. Geist announced on the show that he has too many…

Cable Comedy Series Canceled — Show Was Originally Developed for CBS

The ax fell this week on a sitcom starring a popular comedian, with news surfacing Monday that “The Jim Gaffigan Show” won’t be back for a third season on TV Land. Gaffigan remains a media presence, including appearances in a…