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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.

CBS Series Gets a New Name

A CBS series that returns for its third season later this month will have a new name. The series previously known as “48 Hours: NCIS” has been officially rebranded as “NCIS: The Cases They Can’t Forget.” The network announced that…

CBS Announces Premiere Dates for Two Returning True-Crime News Series

Press release from CBS, May 17, 2019: CBS today announced the premiere dates for two returning true-crime news series to be broadcast this summer, WHISTLEBLOWER and NCIS: THE CASES THEY CAN’T FORGET. WHISTLEBLOWER begins its second season on Friday, May…

’60 Minutes” Steve Kroft to Retire After 30 Seasons on America’s No. 1 News Program

Press release from CBS, May 17, 2019: Steve Kroft will retire from 60 MINUTES at the end of his 30th season on America’s most-watched news program. The 73-year-old correspondent is currently the newsmagazine’s longest-tenured reporter, having reported nearly 500 60…

Former WWE Star and ‘Survivor’ Competitor Dead at 39

A former model and wrestler who became one of the stars of WWE and went on to appear on the CBS reality competition “Survivor” has died. TMZ reports that Ashley Massaro died early this morning in a hospital near her…

Letterman’s ‘Next Guests’ Revealed

The guest list was revealed for the upcoming round of  “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman,” which rolls out five new episodes on Netflix on Friday, May 31. Letterman will interview Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres, Tiffany Haddish,…

Two Top Programming Execs Depart Amid WarnerMedia Streamlining

Two more casualties have been reported in the restructuring at WarnerMedia, with two top programming executives at truTV leaving the network. Variety reports that Marissa Ronca, executive VP and head of programming, and marketing and digital Executive VP Puja Vohra…

CBS Drops Show From Prime-Time Lineup

CBS has announced an upcoming change in its prime-time lineup. The network is dropping the competition program “Million Dollar Mile” from the schedule starting this Saturday, May 18, and replacing it with repeats of “God Friended Me.” The “God Friended…

High-Profile ABC Series Taps Showrunner

In an arrangement that draws on Disney’s recent 20th Century Fox acquisition, the ABC Studios-produced upcoming “Black-ish” spinoff “Mixed-ish” has tapped 20th Television-based Karin Gist as showrunner, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. “Gist is the first showrunner from the…

AMC Greenlights Its First Episodic Anthology Series

AMC has greenlighted a new anthology series from the Emmy-winning writer of “Stranger Things” and “Black Mirror,” Will Bridges, along with Brett Goldstein (“Superbob,” “Adult Life Skills”). The Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project, produced by AMC Studios, will consist of six hour-long…

WarnerMedia Entertainment Reorganizes, Expands Kevin Reilly’s Role

Veteran media executive Kevin Reilly, who has been president of entertainment for NBC, Fox and FX and president of television for Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, just re-upped with WarnerMedia, where his role is being expanded. Reilly’s new role as president of TBS,…