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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.

Bill Cosby’s Wife Camille Issues Statement Defending Husband, Attempts to Deflect Sexual Assault Allegations By Blaming Media. Claims the Real Victim is Bill Cosby

Camille Cosby, who has been married to Bill Cosby for 50 years, issued the following statement on Monday afternoon, Dec. 15, 2014, according to the Associated Press: I met my husband, Bill Cosby, in 1963, and we were married in…

Ratings for ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Are a Record-Breaker for FX

In its final season “Sons of Anarchy” proved to be a huge ratings winner for FX. Some of the impressive stats, as released by FX on Monday, Dec. 15, 2015: “The epic final season of FX’s most-popular series, ‘Sons of…

Ryan Seacrest Reveals Major Change for ‘American Idol’

Host Ryan Seacrest has revealed a big change in Fox’s one-time TV juggernaut, “American Idol.” With “Idol” entering its 14th season on Jan 7th, 2015, “Seacrest revealed that the show’s [separate] results show will now be a thing of the…

New Yorker Magazine Film Critic, After 16 Years, Is Stepping Down

One of the New Yorker’s two movie critics is stepping down. The New York Times reports that in early 2015 David Denby, 71, will leave his post as one of the magazine’s two film critics, but will continue at the…

CBS Plans Spinoff of Popular Drama Series

CBS will have filmed “a planted spinoff in February” of one of its popular drama series, reports Lesley Goldberg, and Michael O’Connell of The Hollywood Reporter. Says the story, “The spinoff, which will air as a ‘Criminal Minds’ episode later…

A Christmas Gift for Business: Consumer Confidence Hits 8-Year High

“Americans’ confidence rose in December to an almost eight-year high, pointing to a pickup in holiday-related purchases,” reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The story reports: “The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary December index of consumer sentiment increased to 93.8, the highest since…

Lawyer Who First Came Forward in 2005 To Accuse Bill Cosby of Sexually Assaulting Her is Now Suing Him For Defamation

“Bill Cosby’s biggest threat isn’t the many women who are now coming forward to accuse him of sexual abuse from years ago,” says an article in The Hollywood Reporter, which continues, “Instead, Bill Cosby’s biggest danger is Bill Cosby. “The…

Time Magazine Reveals Its Person of the Year. It’s NOT Ferguson Protestors, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, Mitch McConnell, Taylor Swift or Vladimir Putin. Selected this Year Is…

Time magazine has picked its 2014 Person of the Year. The winner is not a single individual, but a group of people: The Ebola fighters. As Time says on its website, these fighters include “Doctors who wouldn’t quit even as…

Apparent Murder-Suicide of Rapper and His Wife, a VH1 Star, Reportedly Witnessed by Boxer Floyd Mayweather on FaceTime

Two people found dead in Los Angeles Monday morning, Dec. 8, 2014, in an apparent murder-suicide “were identified as musician 31-year-old Earl Hayes, a rapper and associate of professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., and [Hayes’] wife, 30-year-old Stephanie Moseley, a…

Actor Who Played Son Pugsley on the Original ‘Addams Family’ TV Series Dies at 59

Ken Weatherwax — who, as a child, played Pugsley on “The Addams Family” TV show — died at his home Sunday in California after having a heart attack, TMZ reports. He was 59. According to IMDb, “Ken Weatherwax was born…