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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.

If Bad Weather Continues Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Faces Drastic Step It’s Only Had to Do One Time Ever, 42 Years Ago

The weather is such in New York CIty that Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade may have to do something it’s only had to do once in its history, reports USA Today. On Thanksgiving day in 1971, for the first time ever,…

Report: Chef’s TV Future in Doubt Amid Charges of Alleged Drug Use

The TV future of a chef is being questioned amid charge of alleged drug use. Because of the charge, ABC executives are reportedly considering whether to invite Nigella Lawson back for a third season of “The Taste,” reports the New…

Video: TV Station Editorializes Against Photos of Snow-Covered Patio Furniture

‘Family Guy’ Producers Say ‘Special Announcement from Brian’ Is a Hoax

Producers of Fox’s “Family Guy” are warning that a countdown clock promising a “special announcement from Brian,” the show’s recently deceased dog, is a hoax, reports Deadline.com. As previously reported, the dog, Brian Griffin, was killed in the show’s latest…

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Harrison Ford, Jodie Foster, Spielberg and Scorsese Have All Showed Up to Accept the Golden Globes’ Most Prestigious Award. But This Year’s Winner, Reportedly, Won’t Show Up. Huh?

This seems bizarre. Usually the winner of the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille award for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment" makes it a point to accept the award in person when it’s presented at the annual broadcast of the…

Dan Rather, JFK, Edward R. Murrow and the Business of TV News, Part 3: Is a Dream a Lie If It Don’t Come True or Is It Something Worse?

[Today’s entry is the final part of our series that we began last Friday. It ends as it began, with Dan Rather. We started our longish — yet still abbreviated — journey through the history of CBS News with documentaries…

CBS News Reporter and Producer Placed on Leave of Absence Over Flawed Benghazi Report

A CBS News reporter who came under fire for a "60 Minutes" report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, has gone on a leave of absence, Reuters reports. Says the story, "CBS…

Popular TV Star Suffers Second ‘Mini-Stroke’

A television actor who starred on a popular comedy series for seven seasons in the 2000s has suffered his second "mini-stroke." EW.com reports that Frankie Muniz, who played the title role in Fox’s "Malcolm in the Middle," tweeted about his…

Alec Baldwin and MSNBC Part Company

MSNBC and Alec Baldwin, who has been hosting "Up Late" on the cable channel, have come to what’s being called a "mutual parting," with the actor’s show pulled from the network’s schedule for good, USA Today reports. The move comes…

‘Idol’ Producers Fight Back Against Lawsuit

The producers of the Fox singing competition "American Idol" fought back in court over a lawsuit against the show, filing a motion to dismiss the racial discrimination suit and arguing that its claims of racism can’t, in their words, "be…