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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.

Is NBC Having Second Thoughts About Renewing ‘Aquarius’ for a Second Season? Here’s Why We Ask…

We wonder if NBC is having second thoughts about having renewed ‘Aquarius’ for a second season. The reason we ask is because “NBC has run out of patience with its low-rated Thursday drama tandem of ‘Aquarius’ and ‘Hannibal,’ revealing Monday…

Why Debra Messing Isn’t a Fan of Jeremy Piven (Hint–It’s About Inappropriate Kissing)

On a recent episode of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens: Live” with host Andy Cohen, a viewer called in and asked guest Debra Messing who her favorite and least favorite guest stars were when she was co-starring in the sitcom “Will…

Rupert Murdoch Takes on Donald Trump About Immigration, While Trump Supporters Reportedly Punish Macy’s

Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch has tweeted his disapproval of Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican immigration views. Here’s Murdoch’s tweet from yesterday, Sunday, July 12th: “Mexican immigrants, as with all immigrants, have much lower crime rates than native born. Eg El Paso…

FX’s ‘American Crime Story,’ About the O.J. Simpson Trial, Continues Its Casting Coups With the Signing of Two-Time Tony Winner Nathan Lane

Two-time Tony-winner Nathan Lane in joining the cast of FX’s “American Crime Story,” reports Mike Flemming Jr. at Deadline.com. Lane is joining a cast that includes Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. Simpson, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark, John Travolta as…

Lifetime and BBC Partnering to Produce Miniseries Based on One of the Most Popular Crime Novels of All Time – 100 Million (!) Copies of this Novel Have Been Sold Worldwide

BBC One and Lifetime have partnered on a miniseries based on “one of the best-selling crime novels of all time, with 100 million copies sold worldwide,” the two companies have announced. Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” “will air on…

Comcast to Launch an Internet Programming Service, But Just in Its Own Service Area. $15 a Month, Including HBO

Comcast is launching a $15 a month Internet-based programming service – which will include HBO – but just inside its own service area. “For an extra $15 a month added to a Comcast Internet subscription, viewers will have access to…

For the First Time in Its Forty-Year History, High Times Magazine Runs an Ad From A Company Not Related to Marijuana – and It’s From a TV Channel

“High Times — the 41-year-old monthly magazine dedicated to all things marijuana — has landed its first ever non-pot-related advertiser,” reports our friend Keith Kelly in the New York Post. The story continues, “IFC, the cable TV channel owned by…

Actor Who Played Recurring Characters on ‘Cheers,’ ‘West Wing,’ and ‘Warehouse 13,’– and Who Was Also a Tony-Winner, Dies at 71

The actor who played the English millionaire Robin Colcord, who was romantically interested in Kristie Alley’s Rebecca on the long-running sitcom “Cheers,” has died. The actor’s name was Roger Rees, a Welshman, who “died at his home in New York…

Do You Feel Your Kids Are Spending Too Much Time Using Electronic Devices? The Problem, Dear Friend, May Be YOU…

Do You Feel Your Kids Are Spending Too Much Time Using Electronic Devices? The Problem, Dear Friend, May Be YOU… “Parents are often at fault, directly or indirectly, when children and teenagers become hooked on electronic media, playing video games…

New Study: As Many Suspect, Netflix is a ‘threat to premium TV services’

According to a a new study from The Diffusion Group, Netflix is “…an incremental threat to premium TV services, in particular,” reports Jeff Baumgartner at Multichannel News. Baumgartner is quoting a statement by Nick Beyer, an analyst at The Diffusion…