Chuck Ross

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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.

Comedy Central Regular to Host White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The host has been named for the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, with the high-profile gig going to Comedy Central regular Larry Wilmore, according to Time magazine. Wilmore has been hosting Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” since…

Looking for Some Hot Cable Networks? Here are Two, and They Don’t Have Programming About ‘Bloodthirsty Zombies’ or ‘Drug-Addicted Hackers’

“Two of the hottest cable networks don’t have dark dramas about bloodthirsty zombies, drug-addicted hackers or Russian spies,” writes our friend Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal. (The link will take you to the full story in The WSJ,…

Showtime Readying Documentary Series ‘The Circus.’ Can You Guess What It’s About? (No, It’s Not the Circus …)

Showtime is closing in on the rollout of a documentary series called “The Circus,” which will “pull back the curtain on the 2016 presidential race,” according to the pay-cable network. B&C reports that the political series will be produced in…

11 TV Stations Sign Deal With Nielsen Alternative

In a new agreement announced today, 11 TV stations have signed on with the measurement company Rentrak. The company announced that the stations, owned by Cowles Publishing Company, signed a long-term TV measurement deal. “Under the agreement, KTMF (ABC) &…

The Lion Sleeps Tonight: The Man Who Co-Wrote the Lyrics to That Song, and Who Co-Produced the Jimmie Rodgers Hit ‘Honeycomb’ — and Many Others — Dead at 93

A songwriter and record producer who was behind some of the most familiar songs of the late 1950s and early 1960s has died. The New York Times reports that Luigi Creatore died Sunday in Boca Raton, Fla., of complications from…

As ‘Star Wars’ Opens in Theaters, the $64,000 Question Is ‘Can It Reach the Mythical Number of $3 Billion in Gross Box Office Worldwide?’ To the ABC News Video …

The media focus on Friday’s opening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has been intense and is intensifying, with much of the focus on whether the most eagerly anticipated movie opening in recent memory will translate into the biggest box office hit of…

Why We Love the New York Post’s Page Six: Today They Have a Piece With the Headline ‘Amy Schumer and Barbara Walters Discuss the Art of Faking Orgasms’

The New York Post’s Page Six is running a piece in which Amy Schumer and Barbara Walters, who interviews Schumer for Thursday’s ABC broadcast of Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2015,” talk about faking orgasms — at Walters’ prompting….