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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.

ABC Developing Felicity Huffman Dark Comedy

ABC is moving forward with a one-hour project from “Desperate Housewives” and “American Crime” star Felicity Huffman. Set in the world of fashion, “House of Moore” has received a put pilot commitment from the network, Deadline.com reports. Huffman will executive…

Republican Front-Runner Donald Trump Says He Will Live-Tweet the Democratic Presidential Debate Tonight

Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, “whose colorful tweets have made almost as much news as the real estate mogul has made in person, is planning to make sure his voice heard during tonight’s debate,” reports CNN….

With the Sale of the Venerable Merchant Ivory Film Library, the Lush, Oscar-Winning ‘Howards End’ Returns to Movie Theaters. Plus, More Movies Like It to Be Made

“Some of the best-known Merchant Ivory films — including ‘Howards End,’ ‘Maurice’ and ‘Heat and Dust’ — will be headed back to theaters under a deal in which the indie distributor and financier Charles S. Cohen acquired a 30-film library…

Twitter to Lay Off Up to 336 People

Twitter has announced it will be cutting up to 336 jobs — about 8% of its total work force, reports USA Today. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the layoffs “will place the social media company ‘on a stronger path to grow,’”…

Starting in March, Playboy Magazine Will Be Nude Free

“As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses,” reports The New York Times, adding, “But they will no longer be fully nude.” The Times story…

USC Fires Its Football Coach

“Faced with mounting reports of erratic behavior by its football coach, USC fired the troubled Steve Sarkisian [this] afternoon,” Monday, Oct. 12, 2015,  reports the Los Angeles Times. According to the story, “The announcement capped a string of incidents that…

CBS Orders Workplace Comedy — In Fact, This One Is Called ‘Workplace,’ and It Comes From a Pair of Producers With a Wildly Successful Series on a Rival Network

CBS is moving forward with a comedy project from two producers who have been busy with the hit show “Modern Family” over at ABC. Nellie Andreeva reports on Deadline.com that the network gave a put pilot commitment to “Workplace,” from…

Dan Rather on Donald Trump: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Outside the Realm of Possibility He Gets Elected’ — Watch the Video

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather examined the Donald Trump phenomenon and the 2016 presidential race, commenting, “I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility he gets elected.” Rather noted that…

Actor Randy Quaid Held on $500,000 Bail — Judge Explains Why It’s So High

A judge in Vermont today ordered that actor Randy Quaid be held on $500,000 bail after he was arrested crossing the border from Canada into the U.S., Reuters reports. As we reported earlier today, Quaid and his wife, Evi, were…

TV Legend Steps In After His Childhood Home Is Condemned

After Dick Van Dyke found out his childhood home was scheduled to be demolished, the TV legend found a way to do something about it. The AP reports that Van Dyke — known for his early 1960s CBS sitcom “The…