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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.

Leno’s Big Final Night: Largest Audience in More Than 15 Years

NBC announced updated ratings numbers for Thursday’s final installment of "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno as host, and the total audience soared to 14.637 million viewers — Leno’s largest audience since May 1998. Leading out from "Tonight," Jimmy Fallon’s…

Lego May Create Toy Set Based on TV Drama Series

The venerable toy company Lego is looking at bringing out a new toy set based on a TV drama series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the PBS show “Sherlock” is the inspiration for the proposed Lego set. A proposed “Sherlock”…

One of the Major Stars of the Original ‘Star Trek’ Series Reveals Serious Medical Condition

One of the stars of the original "Star Trek" TV series from the 1960s has revealed a medical diagnosis that he says carries a warning for others. People magazine reports that Leonard Nimoy, known for his role as Mr. Spock…

Report: Another ‘Good Morning America’ Anchor Wants One of Those Robin Roberts Pay Bumps

A “Good Morning America” anchor is in “tense negotiations with ABC” after demanding a salary bump similar to what co-anchor Robin Roberts received, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. The story reports that the anchor is Josh Elliott….

Michael J. Fox Headed Back to CBS

Just one day after NBC removed his comedy “The Michael J. Fox Show” from its prime-time lineup, news surfaced that Michael J. Fox is headed back to the CBS drama “The Good Wife,” TVLine reports. Fox’s potential return as Louis…

Longtime Baseball Broadcaster, Hall of Fame Player, Dead at 91

A Hall of Fame slugger and veteran baseball broadcaster has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, longtime New York Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner, 91, died Thursday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Kiner worked Mets games for more than…

Aaron Sorkin, Oscar Winner, TV Writer Extraordinaire and Recovering Addict, Tells Why Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Saved 10 Lives

"Phil Hoffman and I had two things in common. We were both fathers of young children, and we were both recovering drug addicts." So begins a commentary in Time magazine about Hoffman written by acclaimed playwright and movie/TV screenwriter Aaron…

Preliminary Ratings Are In on Leno Finale. We Also Have the Must-Watch Musical Tribute to Jay Featuring Oprah, Billy Crystal, Jack Black, Kim Kardashian, Carol Burnett, Jim Parsons, Sheryl Crow and Chris Paul

Here are the preliminary ratings from Jay Leno’s "Tonight" show finale that aired last night, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. This is from an NBC press release: In Late-Night Metered Markets Thursday Night (note that the Philadelphia market is excluded from…

A TV First: Showrunner Lands Four Series in the Top 20

A television showrunner whose name has become familiar to many viewers has accomplished a TV first by landing four shows in the top 20 at the same time. Writing on Deadline.com, Nellie Andreeva reports that the milestone was achieved by…

Why Netflix Says It Won’t Share Its Viewer Metrics

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the streaming service doesn’t plan to release its viewer metrics, explaining at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society’s annual programmers luncheon that there’s “no benefit to showing we’re beating said network — we…