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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.

Eddie Murphy Breaks Out His Cosby Material — Here’s a Clip

Just days after revealing that he refused to do a Bill Cosby bit on the “Saturday Night Live” anniversary show because of a string of sexual assault allegations against Cosby, Eddie Murphy broke out some new Cosby material after all….

Lamar Odom Faces Lengthy Rehab After Surviving Medical Crisis

Basketball star Lamar Odom has pulled through his medical crisis, emerging from a coma on Friday after being found unresponsive in a Nevada brothel days earlier. TMZ.com reports that his doctors say Odom, who is still legally married to Khloe…

In Case You Missed It — Here’s Tracy Morgan’s Triumphant Return to ‘Saturday Night Live’

Tracy Morgan came full circle Saturday night, returning to the NBC sketch show “Saturday Night Live” to host the show and announce that he’s back in form after suffering debilitating injuries in a traffic collision in 2014. Here’s a clip…

New No. 1 Show on Broadcast: How a Scripted Series Beat NFL Football

A broadcast drama series moved into the No. 1 spot in the rankings, surpassing even NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” for the week of Oct. 5-11. CBS reports that its “NCIS” claimed the top spot in the rankings for total viewers,…

CBS Bans Ads for Movie About 2004 Scandal; ‘Open Warfare’ Predicted as Film Opens Today

With today’s opening of the movie “Truth” shining a light on a TV news scandal that many of the key players would rather forget, Fortune magazine is predicting open warfare. The movie, “Truth,” stars Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett, and…

NBC Under Fire Over Donald Trump’s ‘SNL’ Gig

NBC’s announcement that Donald Trump will host an upcoming installment of “Saturday Night Live” has sparked a protest from a coalition of Hispanic activists. The AP reports that the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda sent a letter to to “SNL” executive…

Lamar Odom Comes Out of Coma, Is Awake and Responsive

Basketball star and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” personality Lamar Odom had a turnaround today in his medical crisis, emerging from a coma in his hospital room in Las Vegas, USA Today reports. Odom was “awake and responsive to communicative…

Taylor Swift Reveals the Secret to Her Success — Which She Got From a TV Show

Taylor Swift revealed a secret she learned from watching a television show, and she credits it with helping to guide her wildly successful career. She says in a new interview for GQ that she learned it watching the VH1 documentary…

Trump Renews His Verbal Assaults on Fox’s Megyn Kelly

In a tirade that threatens the fragile truce between Donald Trump and Fox News, the GOP presidential front-runner renewed his assault on one of his favorite targets, Fox host Megyn Kelly. CNN reports that Trump went on Twitter Thursday night…

Actress From Hollywood’s Golden Age Dead at 90

An actress who was one of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood has died. The Los Angeles Times reports that Joan Leslie Caldwell, known as Joan Leslie during her career, died Monday in L.A. She was 90. Leslie…