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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.

TVWeek Veterans Day Holiday Schedule

TVWeek is taking off Wednesday, Nov. 11, for the Veterans Day holiday, and will not publish our newsletters that day. We will return with all of our newsletters on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. Meanwhile, if news breaks, we’ll send out a…

NBC Expands Order for Sophomore Series

A series currently airing its second season on NBC has received an order from the network for three additional episodes. Deadline.com reports that NBC gave the order to Debra Messing’s dramedy series “The Mysteries of Laura.” The show “has been…

‘Howard Stern Show’ Personality Dies in Fire

A man who became a local celebrity through his appearances on “The Howard Stern Show” has died. The AP reports that Pennsylvania resident Jack Rushman, known as “Hillbilly Jack,” died Saturday in a fire that started after he fell asleep…

Susan Sarandon Joins TV Project About Screen Siren’s Secret Life

On what would have been her 101st birthday, one of the sirens of Hollywood’s Golden Age is suddenly hot. In the latest Hedy Lamarr news, a documentary is being made about Lamarr for PBS’s “American Masters” series, with Susan Sarandon…

The Broadcast Nets Just Did Something They Haven’t Done in 60 Years (Also: Why Haven’t Any of These Four Shows Been Canceled Yet?)

Something happened during the fall broadcast season that industry experts say hasn’t happened since the early 1950s. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Scott Collins reports that’s how long it has been since the season stretched into November without a single cancellation…

Highest-Rated New Series of 2015-2016 Season Picked Up for Season Two

The fall broadcast season’s highest-rated new series has received an order for a second season. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that NBC announced the renewal for “Blindspot” today. “The drama continues to follow the trajectory of time slot predecessor…

FCC Fielding Complaints About DraftKings and FanDuel Ads — With One Common Theme Rising to the Top of the List

The two big sports fantasy sites have waged a massive ad blitz this season that “dominated advertising slots during sports programming, and especially NFL games, around the start of the 2015 football season,” Boston.com reports, adding: “They have since found…

ABC Has Replacement Set for ‘Nashville’s’ Wednesday Time Slot

ABC has a lineup change in the works for Wednesday prime time. The network will plug the upcoming second season of “American Crime” into the 10 p.m. ET/PT Wednesday slot currently held by “Nashville,” TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The new season of…

Binge-Watching Alert: Netflix Rolls Out True Crime Series

A series that may fuel viewers’ binge-watching tendencies is coming to Netflix. The streaming service announced plans for the crime documentary series “Making a Murderer,” E! News reports. The 10-part series debuts Dec. 18. The series focuses on Steven Avery,…

Search Firm Pulls Out All the Stops With Its Elegant, and Surprising, Animated Hedy Lamarr ‘Google Doodle’ — What It Reveals About the Mysterious Screen Legend

The “Google Doodle” currently posted at the top of the Google search page may be the greatest one ever, according to The Washington Post. “Not only is it among the tech titan’s most stylish ever, as well as aptly cinematic,…