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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.

A Cult Sensation Returns Tonight

Tonight is the night that fans of a certain TV cult sensation have had marked on their calendars for months. The third installment in Syfy’s “Sharknado” series — “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” — premieres tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT,…

VH1 President Steps Down; New GM Takes Over

The president of VH1 has stepped down after seven years on the job, with a new general manager being named to take over his duties. “Chris McCarthy has been named General Manager of VH1, overseeing all creative and business functions…

How Apple Just Lost $60 Billion in Three Minutes

Even as Apple’s quarterly revenues grew by 33% and profits surged 38% to $10.7 billion, the company lost more than $60 billion in market value during a three-minute span Tuesday, Time magazine reports. The reason? According to Time, it’s all…

Discovery Acquires Sports Channels

Discovery Communications has announced an agreement to acquire full ownership of the leading sports channels group across Europe and Asia. The company will acquire Eurosport for €491 million from TF1 Group, which announced it will exercise a put option on…

HBO Renews Series

HBO will be bringing back one of its original series. The pay-cable channel has ordered a second season of the comedy “The Brink,” Deadline.com reports. Created by brothers Roberto Benabib and Kim Benabib, the freshman series stars Jack Black and…

Massive Newsreel Archives of AP, Movietone Added to YouTube

The Associated Press and British Movietone are putting their extensive archives of newsreels on YouTube, ABC News reports. “They will place more than 1 million minutes of digitized film footage on the video-sharing platform,” the story reports. “The archive will…

Nominees Unveiled for News & Documentary Emmy Awards — Here’s the Full List

The full list of nominees has been unveiled for the 36th Annual News & Documentary Awards, with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences taking the wraps off the list today. You can see the full list by clicking…

Michael Chiklis Joins Fox Series

Michael Chiklis has landed a series-regular role on a Fox drama series. The former star of FX’s “The Shield” and ABC’s “The Commish” will be a part of the second season of the superhero show “Gotham,” EW.com reports. Chiklis, who…

Discovery Communications Agrees to Take Full Control of Eurosport

Press release from Discovery Communications, July 22, 2015: Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) today announced an agreement to acquire full ownership of Eurosport, the leading sports channels group across Europe and Asia, for €491 million from TF1 Group, which…

He Won the National Book Award, Three National Book Critics Circle Awards, Two PEN Faulkner Awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction and the presidentially-conferred National Humanities Medal. Adaptations of His Novels Were Nominated for Oscars and Won Tonys. E.L. Doctorow dies at 84

“E.L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including ‘Ragtime,’ ‘Billy Bathgate’ and ‘The March’ — situated fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, among identifiable historical figures and often within unconventional…