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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.

Fox Buys Show From Ryan Seacrest

"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest has sold a show to Fox. Deadline.com reports that the broadcast network ordered a dating program from Seacrest. Not many details of the project are known, but the show is called "Dream Date" and is…

Rupert Murdoch Takes Another Pay Cut

21st Century Fox Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has taken a pay cut. The Los Angeles Times reports that Murdoch’s fiscal 2013 compensation declined slightly to $28.9 million. The previous year, Murdoch received a $30 million compensation package — which was…

Non-TV Story of the Day: Life Expectancy Grows for Women Age 50 and Up

"Life expectancy for women who live to age 50 is going up around the world, but poor and middle-income countries could easily make greater gains, according to a new World Health Organization report," The New York Times reports. The article…

Microsoft Buys Finland! (Sort of)…Software Giant Pays $7.2 Billion for Nokia’s Cell Phone Business. 10 Years Ago, Nokia’s 1100 Cell Phone Was the Best-Selling Consumer Electronics Device in the World. But That Was 10 Years Ago

"Microsoft said it has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for about $7.2 billion, in an audacious effort to transform Microsoft’s business for a mobile era that has largely passed it by," writes Nick…

On This Holiday Afternoon, in a Few Hours, You Should Watch This Movie on TV, Which I Highly Recommend

By Chuck Ross For someone like me, whose favorite genre of motion picture is film noir, and who also has a huge interest in TV, a movie such as 1948’s “Pitfall” is irresistible. Here’s the most basic of descriptions about…

Video: Must-Watch–You’d Think This Was CGI, But It’s Being Reported as Real. Happened in Taiwan. Wow!

In the video, below, in the first few seconds you’ll see this boulder move. Then just watch the rest of the video.

He Practically Invented Political Satire on TV, Years Before ‘SNL.’ And He Was One of the Best TV Interviewers Ever. And He Did All This Both in the U.K. and the U.S. Sir David Frost Dies at 74

"Veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost has died at the age of 74 after a suspected heart attack while on board a cruise ship," reports the BBC. The story continues, "A family statement said he had been giving a speech aboard…

Unfaithful Lust: Two Must-See Movies of the Silver Screen Hit the Small Screen Tonight and Tomorrow

By Chuck Ross With the Labor Day weekend upon us, here are two movies I consider must-sees — one on TV in a few hours, and the other on TV tomorrow afternoon. First we have one of the best bio-pics…

Adaptation of the Clever and Entertaining 1973 Sci-Fi Movie ‘Westworld’ Has Pilot Production Commitment From HBO, with Quite a Pedigree Behind the Camera: J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Jonathan Nolan

"In one of the biggest commitments ever for HBO, the pay cable network has nabbed ‘Westworld,’ a drama series inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie," writes Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The story continues, "The project, from J.J. Abrams‘ Bad…

A&E Pulls Plug on Drama Series

A&E has canceled a drama series. Deadline.com reports that the cable channel made the decision not to go ahead with a fifth season of "The Glades." The decision comes even though the show’s fourth-season finale hit season highs in viewership,…