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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.

Emmy-Winning TV Actor Named Frontrunner to Be the Next James Bond

An actor who has earned acclaim in recent years for his work on a TV show has been tabbed as the frontrunner to become the next James Bond. EW.com reports that Damian Lewis has been anointed as the odds-on favorite,…

NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Scores a ‘Big Get’ — Here’s This Morning’s Full Interview With Rachel Dolezal

NBC’s morning show “Today” and its mainstay Matt Lauer landed a hot interview, which took place this morning. Lauer had a sitdown with Rachel Dolezal — her first since she resigned Monday as head of a Washington state chapter of…

Wow: Digital Multicast Channel Averages Almost 6 Million Viewers for Original Series

The channel that bills itself as the nation’s first-ever and fastest-growing broadcast television network designed for African-American audiences just wrapped a wildly successful first season for its original series “Mann & Wife.” Bounce TV anounced that the series, which stars…

How MTV2 Just Set a Record With the Highest-Rated Day in Its History

MTV2 notched the highest-rated day in the network’s almost 20-year history on June 10, reaching 2.1 million unique viewers and averaging a 0.3 rating for total day, the network announced. The return of “Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out” got…

Starz Gives Green Light to ‘American Gods’ From FremantleMedia North America

Press release from Starz, June 16, 2015: Starz has given a greenlight to FremantleMedia North America’s (FMNA) adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel American Gods. Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Heroes”) and Michael Green (“The River,” “Kings,” “Heroes”),…

Showtime Picks Up Season Three of the Critically Acclaimed Hit Drama ‘Penny Dreadful’

Press release from Showtime, June 16, 2015: SHOWTIME has renewed the critically acclaimed, BAFTA Award-winning drama series PENNY DREADFUL for a third season, it was announced today by David Nevins, President, Showtime Networks Inc. Created, written and executive produced by…

A&E Pulls the Plug on Drama Series

A&E had bad news for one drama series today, along with good news for another. Deadline.com reports that the cable channel canceled the freshman series “The Returned.” Meanwhile, A&E picked up “Bates Motel” for seasons four and five, ordering 20…

Lead Singer of Smash Mouth Caught in an Epic Concert Meltdown — and Wait Till You Hear What Caused It! Here’s the Video

A Smash Mouth concert in Colorado turned into an ugly confrontation between the band’s lead singer, Steve Harwell, and the audience. EW.com reports that Harwell went into a rant during the show at the Taste of Fort Collins festival, all…

Winona Ryder to Play Lead in TV Mystery Series

Two-time Academy Award nominee Winona Ryder will tackle her first series regular role as the lead in a new Netflix mystery series from Matt and Ross Duffer of “Wayward Pines,” The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. “In the currently untitled…

Lifetime Unveils Trailer for ‘A Deadly Adoption’ — the Will Ferrell-Kristen Wiig TV Movie That Has Been the Subject of Rumors and Shrouded in Secrecy; Here’s the Clip

A new trailer has been released for a movie that has been the subject of a series of rumors and false alarms, the Lifetime drama “A Deadly Adoption.” As we reported previously, the project was shrouded in secrecy and at…