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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.

Angela Lansbury Is Delighted That NBC’s ‘Murder She Wrote’ Reboot Is Dead

Angela Lansbury told the Associated Press that she’s relieved the remake of her popular detective series “Murder, She Wrote” was killed. As we reported this week, NBC pulled the plug on the reboot, which was slated to star Octavia Spencer…

President Obama Books Interview With Bill O’Reilly Before Super Bowl

President Barack Obama will sit down with Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly in the annual Super Bowl Day discussion, which is slated to air during Fox’s pregame show Feb. 2, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. The interview will…

Justin Bieber Arrested — Experts Alarmed

Experts are sounding alarms about the behavior of teenage pop star Justin Bieber after the singer was arrested early today in Miami. "Bieber, 19, was booked at Miami Beach police headquarters early Thursday on charges of driving under the influence,…

Boy, This Is Getting Old Fast: Customer Data From Another Major Retailer Hacked. It’s Our Non-TV Story of the Day

Customer data from yet another major U.S. retailer has been hacked. "Neiman Marcus said Thursday that about 1.1 million customer credit and debit cards may have been hacked by malicious software," reports USA Today. The story reports: "The sophisticated, self-concealing…

Fox Steamrolls the Broadcast Competition

Fox rolled to a huge ratings win Wednesday night, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that none of the network’s broadcast rivals could keep up with the torrid pace set by "American Idol." The two-hour…

Emmy Winner Working on High-Profile Miniseries for CBS

CBS has tapped an Emmy-winning writer to adapt a miniseries for the network. Writing on Deadline.com, Lisa de Moraes writes that “The Chronicles of Narnia” writer Ann Peacock will adapt “The Dovekeepers” for the Mark Burnett and Roma Downey-produced project….

‘Hot Bench,’ Created by Judge Judy Sheindlin, Is a Go for Fall 2014

CBS Television Distribution has sold the half-hour strip "Hot Bench," from Judge Judy Sheindlin, to stations covering 75% of the U.S., B&C reports, with the project reportedly a go for fall 2014. "CTD has secured sales to the CBS Television…

Singers Behind One of the 1970s’ Biggest Hits Getting Divorced — Which Proves the Song Isn’t True, If You Want to Look at It That Way

A married couple who sang one of the biggest hits of the 1970s is getting divorced — something that the song promised wouldn’t happen, more or less. TMZ.com reports that the Captain & Tennille, whose many hits included “Love Will…

Morning News Anchor Returns After Brain Surgery

A fixture of the morning news lineup in Los Angeles is back on the job. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that Julie Chang, an anchor and entertainment reporter on “Good Day L.A.,” returned to the program Wednesday after…

CNN Sinks to Its Lowest Ratings Since Jeff Zucker Took Over

With this week marking the one-year anniversary of Jeff Zucker’s appointment as president of CNN Worldwide, the numbers show Zucker still has his work cut out for him. Variety reports that CNN delivered its lowest ratings since Zucker took over…