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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.

Streaming Services Take Wraps Off Ambitious Lineup of New Programming This Month

Major streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu have a busy month in the works, with a batch of new series and new seasons making their debut on the streamers. A roundup of July releases by TV Media…

Traveling Marvel Theme Park Tour Shuts Down Early

A $30 million summer tour built around Marvel’s lineup of superheroes is calling it quits. The AP reports that the organizers behind “The Marvel Experience” will shut down the summer tour early. No reason was revealed for the tour’s sudden…

The Grateful Dead Calls It a Career

The legendary band the Grateful Dead has played its last concert. In the group’s final performance on the Fare Thee Well Tour, at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the Dead reportedly broke its own record for ticket sales for the venue. Soldier…

E! Renews Series

With its midseason finale looming, an E! series got word that it will be back for another season. The cable channel announced that it has picked up the reality show “Botched” for season three. The plastic surgery show’s season two…

NBC Cancels Drama Series

An NBC drama series that recently wrapped its season has been canceled. Variety reports that NBC pulled the plug on “A.D.: The Bible Continues” after its one-season run. The report notes that producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey “plan to…

Jon Stewart Unloads on Donald Trump — and Comes Up With a Campaign Slogan for Trump 2016; Here’s the Video

Jon Stewart got in his licks about Donald Trump on Thursday’s installment of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” the final episode of the program before it goes on hiatus. During the segment he highlighted one of Trump’s statements as a possible…

Oscar Winner Joins Fox’s ‘Empire’

Fox is adding an Oscar-winning actress to the lineup for season two of its hit drama series “Empire.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed confirms that Marisa Tomei has joined the show in a recurring role. Tomei is a three-time Academy…

Iconic Children’s Brand to Become a Movie

A brand that is a familiar sight to parents of small children may be about to become even more familiar. Deadline.com reports that the iconic Japanese brand Hello Kitty will be made into a feature film. “Japanese lifestyle company Sanrio…

Two TV News Crews Robbed at Gunpoint, Cameraman Pistol-Whipped

Two television news crews were attacked Thursday while covering a story, with one of the attackers, who wore a ski mask, pistol-whipping a camera operator. SFGate.com reports that the crews, from Bay Area stations KTVU-TV and KNTV, were hit while…

CEOs of Sprint and T-Mobile in Nasty Online Exchange

The executives leading the country’s No. 3 and No. 4 wireless carriers fired off nasty online messages to each other this week. USA Today reports that Marcelo Claure of No. 3 Sprint and John Legere of No. 4 T-Mobile went…