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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.

Will Next Season Be the Last for Long-Running Drama Series?

A drama series that has become a fixture of the lineup for its broadcast network during its seven-season run may be wrapping it up after season eight. E! News reports that one of the stars of the CW’s “The Vampire…

Epitaph for TV’s New ‘Golden Age’? Writer Says Even the Best Shows Are Getting One Thing Wrong

A new analysis suggests it’s time to rethink the suggestion that we’re living in a new “Golden Age of Television.” Writing in the New York Post, Maureen Callahan points out that many of the medium’s most acclaimed shows appear to…

Golfer Jordan Spieth on His Epic Collapse During Sunday’s Final Round of the Masters

Golfer Jordan Spieth’s dream weekend blew up on the 12th hole Sunday (see video below), as the 2015 Masters champion saw his lead in this year’s Masters disappear with a quadruple bogey on the hole. The 22-year-old Spieth landed two…

‘SNL’ Goes After Hillary Clinton

With the crucial New York primary coming up, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” focused its opening on Hillary Clinton’s recent losses to Bernie Sanders, with “SNL” regular Kate McKinnon playing the former first lady. Here’s the video …

Nine-Year-Old Journalist Becomes a Media Star After Breaking News of Homicide

A 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl has become a media sensation after the youngster broke the news of a killing in her neighborhood. The New York Times reports that Selinsgrove, Pa., girl Hilde Kate Lysiak, who publishes a neighborhood paper called The Orange…

Five Best Moments at the MTV Movie Awards — and All the Winners

The 2016 MTV Movie Awards aired Sunday on the cable channel, and the big winner was “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which won Movie of the Year along with wins for Breakthrough Performance for Daisy Ridley and Best Villain for…

Kanye West Revisits Controversial Incident With Taylor Swift — Here’s the Video

Kanye West took the opportunity over the weekend to reflect on the notorious incident that went down at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in which West disrupted the acceptance speech of Best Female Video winner Taylor Swift. In the…

Lost Footage of Paul Walker Test-Driving a 600-hp Nissan GT-R

“The Fast and the Furious” star Paul Walker, who was killed in a traffic collision in Valencia, Calif., in 2013, was known to be a fan of fast cars, and footage surfaced recently of Walker trying out a 600-hp Nissan…

New Gloria Steinem Series About to Roll Out

Gloria Steinem is executive producing and starring in a new TV series. The journalist, political activist and feminist will host “Woman,” which premiered May 10 on the Vice and A&E network Viceland. The program investigates how violence against women drives…

Is Gen. David Petraeus’ Job-Ending Sex Scandal Headed to the Big Screen?

The sex scandal that brought down then-CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus is the focus of movie offers, according to a report on the New York Post’s Page Six. Socialite Jill Kelley recently published her memoir, “Collateral Damage: Petraeus, Power, Politics…