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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.

NBC Orders Thriller Ripped From the Headlines

NBC has ordered a new thriller based on a creepy story from the real-world headlines. Deadline.com reports that the network bought the project “The Watcher,” a stalker drama based on a news story that broke in June about a New…

Tori Spelling Sues Benihana

Actress Tori Spelling has filed a lawsuit against the Benihana restaurant chain over an incident back in April in which she reportedly suffered severe burns in a Benihana restaurant. As we reported at the time, the incident took place on…

Actor Known for Classic Family Films Dies — He Became a Household Name in ‘The Love Bug,’ ‘That Darn Cat!’ and Other Roles

A well-known film and TV actor whose “boyish good looks and all-American manner made him Disney’s favorite young actor for such lighthearted films as ‘That Darn Cat!’ and ‘The Love Bug’” has died, the AP reports. Dean Jones died Tuesday…

Telecom War of Words: Verizon Takes the Wraps Off New Logo — and a Bitter Adversary Immediately Attacks

Seizing on the moment when telecom leader Verizon unveiled its new logo, an old rival, T-Mobile CEO John Legere, launched a bitter attack incorporating the new Verizon logo into a critique of the company. RCR Wireless reports that Legere has…

The Fall TV Season Is About to Launch — Here’s Where to Find All the Premiere Dates in One Place

With the 2015-2016 broadcast television season about to kick off, it may be helpful to have all of the series premiere dates and times in one place, along with season premieres and new time slots for returning shows. Media Life…

Why CNN Is Asking 40 Times Its Normal Rate for Ad Time

There’s a simple two-word reason that CNN is able to ask 40 times its usual rate for commercial time in its upcoming GOP primary debate: Donald Trump. That’s the assessment of Jeanine Poggi, writing in Ad Age. “The cable news…

CBS Will Add a New Angle — and a New ‘Cam’ — to Its NFL Coverage

CBS will be showing viewers a new angle in its NFL coverage this season. The network will introduce the “Pylon Cam” in selected games, CBS Sports announced. The field-level cameras will be embedded in four custom-molded pylons, each containing multiple…

Nielsen, Still Trying to Replace Paper Diaries, Receives Complaints About the New System — Here’s What the Ratings Firm Will Do About It

Nielsen has responded to complaints about its new system that will replace paper diaries — a system consisting largely of newly developed “code readers” — with the announcement that it is delaying implementation of the upgrade. TVNewsCheck reports that the…

Entertainment News and Talk Variety Show to Debut on 45 TV Stations

Two station groups “are debuting entertainment news and talk variety show ‘Hollywood Today Live’ on Monday, Sept. 14 in major markets nationwide,” reports Jonathan Kuperberg in B&C. The story continues, “The hourlong daily show, which takes advantage of social media…

Cate Blanchett, Who Won an Oscar for Portraying Katharine Hepburn, Reportedly Will Play the Most Famous TV Actress of Them All in a Biopic to Be Written By Aaron Sorkin

It’s another redhead for Cate Blanchett. Will it be another Academy Award as well? “Cate Blanchett is attached to star in an authorized biopic of Hollywood legend Lucille Ball that Aaron Sorkin is set to write for Escape Artists,” reports…