38,865 Entries
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 high-profile member of the team behind Fox’s "24" has signed on with the network’s reboot, the event series "24: Live Another Day." Deadline.com reports that Evan Katz, a longtime writer on "24," is on board for the reboot. Katz…
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision climbed into a tie for the No. 1 spot in the broadcast ratings for Thursday night, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that both Univision and Fox finished with 1.4 average ratings…
NBC News has hired the former chief of the New York Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, TVNewser reports. The news operation hired Bill Bratton as an analyst, the piece reports. Bratton will work for NBCUniversal’s networks and…
Alec Baldwin apparently has deleted his Twitter account — for a third time — after getting in trouble over a subject that has proved to be a sensitive one for him: his wife, Hilaria. Baldwin reportedly sent profanity-laced tweets to…
A canceled NBC series won’t disappear completely from the television landscape after all, with Ovation picking up rights to rebroadcasts of "Smash," the musical drama that was canceled by the network this season, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The arts network…
The ongoing controversy over Paula Deen’s use of the N-word has brought one negative headline after another for the TV chef during the past week, but the news hasn’t been all bad for Deen. Vanity Fair reports that her cookbooks…
"The Talk" co-host Sharon Osbourne, who is married to rocker Ozzy Osbourne, shared an unfavorable view of rapper Kanye West on Thursday, calling him "an average-looking guy with an average talent," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. Osbourne’s comment…
After "Terminator" star Arnold Schwarzenegger famously vowed that he would be back, Paramount has announced that the "Terminator" franchise will indeed be back. CBS News reports: "The franchise is getting a reboot, Paramount announced Thursday, with three new films set…
An NBC affiliate that has shown a tendency in the past to make up its own mind about the merits of the network’s programming has reversed course on "Saturday Night Live," one of the shows it has refused to air…
News Corp., Walt Disney and Comcast, owners of Hulu, have extended the deadline for second-round bids to allow DirecTV additional time to get its financing in place, reports the New York Post. DirecTV will likely submit a bid of about…