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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.
NBC has pulled the plug on a prime-time series after it returned with softer numbers this summer. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network has retired Betty White’s "Off Their Rockers." The series finished its second season Tuesday,…
Now that Cote de Pablo is leaving the CBS drama series "NCIS," fans are begging producers not to replace her with Jamie Lee Curtis, as much of the show’s fan base has a dislike of the actress, reports the Los…
More details are emerging about "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini’s break from Scientology, with the New York Post’s Page Six reporting the actress threatened to call the police about the whereabouts of the church’s leader’s wife, leading to her…
An actress known for her roles on ABC’s "Lost" and "FlashForward" and USA Network’s "Common Law" is joining the NBC series "Parenthood." EW.com’s Inside TV reports that English actress Sonya Walger will play a recurring role in the show’s fifth…
With Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announcing a major restructuring Thursday, industry watchers are focused on what it means for the company’s direction. CNET reports that Ballmer "has launched a restructuring of teams along functional, rather than product, lines, stressing that…
The former president and founder of Los Angeles station KCET-TV, a longtime director of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. James L. Loper was 81. Loper helped turn the public broadcasting station…
NBC, which already has one high-profile new game show in the works in "Million Second Quiz," is doubling down on the game show genre. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network has given a straight-to-series order for "Wall…
Al Jazeera America has hired four anchors as it continues to staff up for its late summer debut, reports the Los Angeles Times. The network hired Jonathan Betz, Richelle Carey, Morgan Fogarty and Del Walters, the story says. Betz won…
Netflix is talking with Imagine TV’s Brian Grazer about producing another season of "Arrested Development," which would mark the show’s fifth season and its second on the streaming site, reports Bloomberg. “We are in conversations with them to do another,”…
Embattled television chef Paula Deen is bringing in a big gun as she struggles to emerge from a scandal involving her use of the N-word. Deen hired Patty Glaser, a Hollywood attorney for Keith Olbermann and Conan O’Brien, as part…