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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.

Are You Buying It? Zucker Gives a Rosy Assessment of CNN’s Year

After a year in which CNN sank to an all-time low in prime-time viewership, CNN Worldwide chief Jeff Zucker wrote in a memo to the network’s staffers that CNN has “had a really good year” in 2013, Deadline.com reports. But…

New Channel From DirecTV: Is It a Veiled Threat to Weather Channel?

Just as its deal with Weather Channel is about to expire, DirecTV has been quietly rolling out a network that some are calling a threat to Weather Channel, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Although talks between the two companies are…

Which TV Show Was the Most Pirated of 2013? Here’s the Top 10

A new list has come out of the most pirated television programs of 2013, and the show that came in at No. 1 is probably not much of a surprise. Viewers are so eager to watch the villainy on HBO’s…

Nick Nolte’s 2002 Mugshot

‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ Co-Creator Dead at 54

A director, producer and screenwriter who co-created the 1990s Will Smith sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" has died. CNN reports that Jeff Pollack, who directed films including “Booty Call" and "Above the Rim,” was found dead Monday. He was…

Amid Controversy, Sales of ‘Duck Dynasty’ Christmas Album Are Booming

One beneficiary of the “Duck Dynasty” dust-up is the Robertson family’s Christmas album, which saw sales jump 22% for the week of Dec. 22, reports Deadline.com. “Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas” sold 132,000 units during the week, the…

The Five Best ‘SNL’ Skits of 2013

We found this on Salon.com. It was first published on Pajiba. It’s written by Dustin Rowles, and appeared before the past “Saturday Night LIve” episode hosted by Jimmy Fallon: “It’s been a wildly uneven season of SNL, and it’s hard…

In a Close Vote, AP Names Its Entertainer of the Year

In the end it was a single vote that separated the two leading contenders for AP Entertainer of the Year, and the title went to Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, over headline-grabbing twerk queen Miley Cyrus. In the annual vote among…

Rashida Jones, Will McCormack Developing HBO Project

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack have a single-camera half-hour project in the works at HBO, which focuses on a nail salon in Florida and the dangerous women who work there, reports Deadline.com. Called “Claws,” the project is described as a…

Johnny Carson, the Grinch, and ‘Fear of Flying’

It was 2 a.m. one night in 1970 and Johnny Carson, 45, was on the phone, clearly drunk, slurring his words. Carson was at the watering hole Sinatra had made famous — Jilly’s in New York. The person he called…