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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.
Actress Leah Remini, who recently broke from Scientology, has warned that she’s not about to keep quiet about her experiences with the group, and now Us Weekly is reporting that she plans to write a tell-all book about those experiences….
An actress who made a name for herself both in front of and behind the cameras of a number of TV shows has died. The Huffington Post reports that Gail Kobe, who produced more than 200 episodes of the CBS…
CBS is reworking comedian Jim Gaffigan’s comedy for the 2014-15 television season. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network gave a pilot order for a reworked version of the project. The semi-autobiographical comedy stars Gaffigan as a frazzled…
The 12th Doctor Who has been named, with the role going to an actor known for his portrayal of a "foul-mouthed spin doctor," reports the U.K. publication The Guardian. The actor taking on the iconic role is 55-year-old Peter Capaldi,…
CBS and Time Warner Cable didn’t negotiate Sunday, following TWC’s implementation of a blackout of CBS-owned stations and cable networks in some major cities, and that’s a situation that could take a while to be resolved, reports Bill Carter in…
ABC and Lucasfilm have been talking about a new "Star Wars" television series, Reuters reports, with ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee mentioning the potential project over the weekend at the Television Critics Association press tour. Lee told critics Sunday:…
An actress known for her work on the long-running NBC medical drama "ER" has been cast in a Showtime project. Deadline.com reports that Maura Tierney is joining the pilot "The Affair," opposite Dominic West and Ruth Wilson. The project is…
Joan Rivers is lashing out at the Writers Guild of America in her first public comment about the guild’s accusations against Rivers in connection with her E! Network show "Fashion Police," reports Variety. "This is such a bunch of bullshit,”…
"Cox Communications Inc., the third-largest U.S. cable provider, has held talks about combining with Charter Communications Inc. [the fourth-largest U.S. cable provider], according to two people with knowledge of the matter," writes Alex Sherman on the website of Bloomberg.com. The story…
The Boston Globe was sold to Fenway Sports Group, whose chairman is "The Cosby Show" executive producer Tom Werner, and the sale, for $70 million, is "the latest milestone in the story of newspapers’ decline in the digital age," reports…