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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.

‘Peaceful Invasion’ Is Focus of New Documentary — Who Made ‘The List’?

A TV documentary premiering tonight tells a series of stories that add up to what’s been described as a “peaceful invasion” by women into positions of power and influence. The project, “The Women’s List,” comes from director and producer Timothy…

Oprah To Be Seen In Recurring Role in TV Drama. Creator of Project Also Has A Pedigree: ‘Six Feet Under’ and ‘Lost’

If you like primetime soaps, check this out. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and Lionsgate have announced a new one, titled “Greenleaf.” Here’s how the two companies describe the show in a release today: “The new original drama series ‘Greenleaf’…

Report: Missing from Watching Traditional TV — 640,000 Young Men

“In the first three days of premiere week the number of young men turning on their TVs dropped by a stunning 22 percent compared to last year, Nielsen ratings show,” reports our good friend Claire Atkinson in the New York…

Nickelodeon Unveils Extensive Slate of Retro Programming It’s Bringing Back — See Whether Your ’90s Favorites Made the Cut

Nickelodeon has taken the wraps off a new brand and a old slate of programming, unveiling a lineup of some of the cable channel’s best-loved shows from the 1990s that will be brought back under the banner “The Splat.” “Millennials…

Drama’s 15-Year Run on Prime Time About to End

A drama series that has been an institution on broadcast prime time has arrived at the end of its run. The AP reports that CBS will mark the end of “CSI” with a two-hour reunion show Sunday. The show about…

Amazon Set to Launch Six New Shows

Amazon revealed that it has six new TV projects in the pipeline. The streaming service will roll out pilots for the shows in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Austria for the 2015 fall pilot season, Reuters reports. As has…

Talk About Being on a Roll: One Network Celebrates 29 Years in a Row at No. 1 in Daytime

One of the big 4 broadcast networks appears to have a lock on daytime, having just wrapped up its 29th consecutive year at No. 1 in the daypart. CBS Daytime announced that it ended the 2014-2015 broadcast year at No….

Brian Williams Gives MSNBC a Ratings Bump

The first day of coverage of the pope’s U.S. visit by former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams gave a solid ratings bump to MSNBC. Citing Nielsen data, the Los Angeles Times reports that the cable news channel drew 526,000…

This Time It’s for Real: Russian President Putin Places a Phone Call to Elton John

Following up on a prank in which singer Elton John was fooled into thinking he had received a phone call from Vladimir Putin, the Russian president placed an actual phone call to John, The Washington Post reports. “Dmitry Peskov, a…

Reality Show Couple Dead After Standoff With SWAT Team

Two people who were featured on a cable reality show were found dead Tuesday in what’s being called a murder-suicide. Mark and Debby Constantino, who had recurring roles on Travel Channel’s long-running program “Ghost Adventures,” died following a standoff with…