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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.

Jimmy Kimmel Says ABC Almost Replaced Him With Another Well-Known Late-Night Host

Jimmy Kimmel, who has become a fixture of the ABC late-night landscape with “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” revealed this week that the network once considered replacing him with Conan O’Brien. Decider reports that Kimmel made the revelation during an appearance on…

Comedy Series Renewed

A cable comedy just picked up a renewal and will return in 2020 for its second season. FX announced the pickup for the verite vampire series “What We Do in the Shadows.” The announcement comes as the freshman series still…

Cable Channel’s Pipeline Includes Shows From Nancy Grace, Kim Kardashian, Kate Snow, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-T and Others

A slate of high-profile projects that are in the pipeline, including greenlights for six shows and news that five others are in development, was just unveiled by Oxygen. The featured auspices include Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-T, Jason Blum, Nancy…

Viceland Lays Out New Slate of Shows

Press release from Viceland, May 7, 2019: VICELAND, the Emmy-winning youth lifestyle and entertainment network from VICE Media and A+E Networks, is rolling into the summer with a slate of new programming. Initially teased at the company’s NewFronts, VICELAND will…

Paramount Network Expands Hit ‘Ink Master’ Franchise With Multi-Season Renewal, Spinoff Series, Dedicated YouTube Channel

Press release from Paramount Network, May 7, 2019: Paramount Network is expanding its popular Ink Master franchise across platforms, with a two-season renewal of the highly-rated hit original tattoo-competition series and an order for a new spinoff series, Ink Master:…

Oxygen Media Expands Its True Crime Programming Slate With Six Greenlights and Five Series in Development

Press release from Oxygen, May 7, 2019: Oxygen Media, the home for quality true crime programming, is aggressively expanding its original slate with six new greenlights and five series in development which include projects from Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-T,…

FX Orders Second Season of Hit Comedy ‘What We Do in the Shadows’

Press release from FX, May 7, 2019: Bust out the crepe paper! FX has renewed its hit verité vampire comedy series What We Do in the Shadows for a second season, it was announced today by Nick Grad and Eric…

Upstart Football League Secures Multiyear Network Deals

The football league that promises to “reimagine football for the 21st century” inked multiyear agreements that will place the XFL’s 2020 games on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, Fox, FS1 and FS2. The league kicks off on the weekend of Feb. 8-9,…

Faith, Family, Creativity and the E Street Band: A Conversation Between Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese

E Street Band fans will rejoice in the news Bruce Springsteen broke in a candid conversation with Martin Scorsese Sunday night that kicked off Netflix’s series of Emmy FYC events on a soundstage at Hollywood’s Raleigh Studios. Toward the end…

NBC Brings Back Former NBC Series That Moved to Cable Years Ago

NBC is bringing back a show that originated on the Peacock Network back in 2010 only to leave the network in 2012. “Who Do You Think You Are?,” which has been airing on TLC, will return to NBC with a…