Chuck Ross

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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.

Non-TV Story of the Day: The Guardian’s Video Interview With Whistleblower Behind Revelations of NSA Surveillance

The U.K. newspaper The Guardian broke the story of the leak of National Security Agency surveillance practices after revelations from whisteblower Edward Snowden. Click here to watch a video the publication posted of an interview with Snowden.

Lifetime Casts ‘Pan Am’ Actress as Accused Ax Murderer

Lifetime has cast an actress who recently had a run on ABC’s short-lived drama series "Pan Am" in an original movie about Lizzie Borden. Deadline.com reports that Christina Ricci will play the woman who was tried and acquitted in the…

If You’re Attending This Week’s NCTA Cable Show, It’s a Good Time to Try and Spend Some Time With Cable’s Most Charismatic Icon, a Genuinely Modest Person Who Is Retiring at the End of the Year. A Tribute

To find out who TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross is referring to, and to read his tribute, please click here.

Must-See: Get Your Week Off to a Rousing Start. This May Be the Best Opening Number of a Tonys Broadcast Ever. Not Only Did Those in the Audience Give It a Standing Ovation, We Gave It One Watching It on TV at Home!

For Many Attending This Week’s NCTA Cable Show, It’s a Good Time to Try and Spend Some Time With Cable’s Most Charismatic Icon, a Genuinely Modest Person Who Is Retiring at the End of the Year. A Tribute

Having covered the cable TV industry for almost three decades, I’ve known most of the industry’s heavy hitters, from John Malone, Michael Fuchs and Kay Koplovitz to Abby Raven, Italia Commisso Weinand and Glenn Britt. I’ve known some much better…

Actress Who Has Reportedly Had Minor Parts in Some Popular Series (‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘The Vampire Diaries’) Arrested in Sending of Poison-Laced Letters to Obama and Mayor Bloomberg

"A TV actress was arrested in Arkansas on Friday in connection with ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg," reports USA Today.. The story continues, "The arrest of Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson, 38, initially…

Video: NBC Takes Wraps Off Trailer for Its Line-Blurring Series ‘Siberia’

NBC has released a trailer for its summer show “Siberia,” in which the lines are blurred between reality TV and drama. See what you think:

ABC Ordering Drama Series

ABC is putting the finishing touches on a straight-to-series order for a drama series. Deadline.com reports that the network is ordering “The Black Box,” written by Amy Holden Jones (“The Relic,” “Mystic Pizza”). Nellie Andreeva writes in the Deadline.com piece:…

Dominant Night for ABC as NBA Finals Open

ABC scored a slam dunk in the broadcast ratings Thursday night even as the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs opened with viewership numbers well below last year’s game one, based on Nielsen overnights for the…

OWN Slates Comedy Specials

Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network is trying its hand at comedy. Deadline.com reports that the channel will televise a pair of comedy specials July 13 and July 20, with comedian Wanda Sykes hosting. The all-female summer specials, “Wanda Sykes Presents…