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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.

Full List of Winners of the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Presented on Jan. 25, 2015

SAG-AFTRA Honors Outstanding Film and Television Performances at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® The complete list of recipients for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® follows: 21st ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® RECIPIENTS   TELEVISION PROGRAMS  …

Cable Network Thinks It’s Found Its Next Sitcom Star: Shaq

Fifteen-time National Basketball Association All-Star Shaquille O’Neal will star in a sitcom pilot for TruTV, the network has announced. The scripted show will be called “Shaq Inq,” (working title). The announcement continues, noting that the show is “a workplace comedy…

Television Becomes a Force at the Sundance Film Festival

So says The New York Times. Brooks Barnes writes that the “vast majority of the 123 movies that will play Sundance this year will end up finding an audience not in a theater but on a video-on-demand system. “The shift…

Report: Looks Like Sen. Marco Rubio Wants to Be the Next President of the United States. It’s Our Non-TV Story of the Day

“Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL] has begun taking concrete steps toward launching a presidential bid, asking his top advisors to prepare for a campaign, signing on a leading Republican fundraiser, and planning extensive travel to early-voting states in the coming weeks,”…

She Fought to Make Kids TV a Better Experience: Peggy Charren, Founder of Action For Children’s Television (ACT), Dies at 86

“Peggy Charren, 86, whose advocacy of higher-minded television programming for children took the issue to government agencies and the halls of Congress and led to landmark legislation, died on Thursday at her home in Dedham, Mass.,”  reports The New York…

CBS and Warner Bros. TV Gleeful as They Find Actress to Play Lead in ‘Supergirl’

As Warner Bros. TV and CBS prepare the pilot for “Supergirl,” they have found an actress to play the lead role. She’s Melissa Benoist, who plays Marley Rose on “Glee,” reports the Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. Benoist also has…

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  Call for Entries   The American Legion seeks entries for Fourth Estate Awards in print, broadcast and Internet media INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 19, 2015) – The American Legion has announced its call for entries in the annual Fourth Estate Awards…

NASCAR Superstar Who Helped Build the Sport to Unimagined Heights of Popularity Says 2015 Will Be His Last Season as a Full-Time Driver

One of the superstars of NASCAR – and a four-time champion — “announced today that 2015 will be his last season as a full-time driver,” reports Fox News. The driver is Jeff Gordon. The story continues, “In fact, it could…

Hmmm. Seems to Us This is Pretty Much a Tie, Though One Movie Has Claimed the U.S. Box-Office Crown in 2014 for Making the Most Money

The battle for the crown as the highest-grossing domestic release of 2014 was between two movies: Disney/Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” and Liongate’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1.” Like most folks who follow this category, we were under the impression…

Another Breakthrough for Netflix in Hollywood as One of Its Executives Is Honored with A TV Award That Previously Has Gone to Such Luminaries as Les Moonves, Peter Roth, Fred Silverman, Aaron Spelling, Nina Tassler, Grant Tinker, Marcy Carsey, and Norman Lear

Netflix has snared another big mainstream TV honor. “Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos will be named the Television Showman of the Year at the 52nd Annual ICG Publicists Awards to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Friday, February 20,” it was announced…