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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.

Action-Packed ABC Series Gets a Second Season

A resurrected format that did well after ABC brought it back earlier this year will return for a second season. The network announced it will bring back “BattleBots” for season two. The ABC revival of the series comes from Whalerock…

Two GOP Candidates Demoted to ‘Kids’ Table’ for Next Debate

Two of the Republican presidential hopefuls who have been a part of the party’s “headliner” debates have been relegated to what’s being called the “kids’ table” for the upcoming debate on Fox Business Network. Deadline.com reports that Chris Christie and…

Why the NBC Network and NBCU Cable Nets Are Tweaking Their Programming Lineups

NBCUniversal plans to mess with some of its programming, both on the NBC broadcast network and on a number of cable networks, to make room for content that will plug the upcoming Lionsgate feature film “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay —…

ABC Family Orders Two Scripted Drama Series

ABC Family has greenlighted two new drama series. The channel announced that it picked up the soapy one-hour drama “Guilt” along with the supernatural drama “Beyond.” The moves come as ABC Family heads for its rebranding as Freeform, which remains on…

Amazon Places Orders for Three New Series

Amazon has given series orders to three new projects, and has also ordered a half-hour special. The new series, all children’s programs, are “Dino Dana,” “The Kicks” and “Lost in Oz.” The special will be based on Aardman Animations’ Shaun…

Amazon Orders Three Original Kids Series — ‘Dino Dana,’ ‘The Kicks’ and ‘Lost in Oz’ — and Orders Half-Hour Special ‘Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas’

Press release from Amazon, Nov. 6, 2015: Amazon today announced it has ordered three new Amazon Original Kids Series—Dino Dana, The Kicks and Lost in Oz—as well as half-hour special Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas to debut on Prime…

ABC Family Gives Series Orders to Scripted Dramas ‘Guilt’ and ‘Beyond’

Press release from ABC Family, Nov. 5, 2015: ABC Family delivers on its promise to increase its original programming slate by picking up two new scripted dramas, “Guilt” and “Beyond,” to series, announced today by Karey Burke, Executive Vice President,…

Legendary Car Customizer Dies at 89. George Barris Designed the Batmobile and the Car Driven By the Munsters

George Barris, “a veteran of the body shops of Sacramento and Los Angeles, [who] was a towering figure in the Southern California subculture of customizers and hot-rodders, known both for the sophistication of his design work and his flair for…

Set is Taken Down of Low-Rated NBC Series

“Less than two weeks after NBC cut the episode order of a fall freshman comedy…the sitcom’s set has been struck,” reports Variety. The story says that in its first three airings, the sitcom, “Truth Be Told,” has “averaged a 0.68…

Canceled Series May Not Be Finished After All

A series that was canceled by its broadcast network may have found a way to come back to life. Writing on Deadline.com, Nellie Andreeva reports that the current 22nd cycle of “America’s Next Top Model,” which was canceled by the…