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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.
A dislocated shoulder has sidelined a music superstar. The injury happened during the making of a music video, according to a number of media reports. According to the New York Daily News, Mariah Carey was "inside nightclub Avenue in [the…
One of the stars of the NBC comedy series "Community" won’t be seen nearly as much during the show’s upcoming fifth season. Joe Adalian reports on New York Magazine’s Vulture.com that actor Donald Glover is cutting back significantly on his…
The new Showtime series "Ray Donovan" scored a first for the cable network. Deadline.com reports that the second episode of the drama series increased its audience from its premiere week — a first for a freshman drama series on the…
The director of the Matthew McConaughey feature "The Lincoln Lawyer" has joined a project that aims to bring the James Patterson book series "Private" to television as a drama series. Deadline.com reports that Brad Furman, who directed the 2011 thriller…
Streaming site Hulu has received bids from at least three potential buyers, according to a number of media reports. Most interesting may be how the service might be transformed, depending upon who acquires it. According to Deadline.com: "Conventional wisdom is that…
A producer has scored a court victory over the members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. The Associated Press reports that Mark Forstater prevailed in a British court in a battle over royalties for "Spamalot," the stage musical based on…
ABC’s "Nashville" promoted three actors to series regulars for the drama’s second season, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. Sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella and "The O.C." actor Chris Carmack have been upped to full time. The Stella sisters have…
By Chuck Ross Back in the late 1960s I watched, or at least partly watched, one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. It starred the wonderful singer Roy Orbison — he was best known for singing "Pretty Woman" and dozens…
"Release the hounds: DogTV — touted as the first TV network aimed at man’s best friend — is a real 24-hour channel that will be unleashed on DirecTV starting Aug. 1, 2013, reports Todd Spangler in Variety. Says the article,…
CBS’s "Big Brother" brought its recent outbreak of racism and homophobia out of the relative obscurity of the live Internet feed and into the glaring spotlight of the prime-time broadcast Sunday night — and got a ratings bump out of…