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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 series that was canceled earlier this year only to get a reprieve and be given another season now has a return date for that season. The series is "Drop Dead Diva," which is being brought back by Lifetime, reports…
A video of actress Reese Witherspoon’s arrest has hit the Internet, and it’s not likely to be a performance she’s proud of. In the video, released by TMZ, the actress is seen getting "in the officer’s face … and annoyed…
HBO is slated to make a half-hour dramedy pilot with Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Johnson will star in and executive produce the pilot, with Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson also serving as executive…
Scripps Networks Interactive has seen steep audience losses at one network and significant gains at another, perhaps indicating how the audience’s appetite is changing. The steep losses have been at Scripps’ Food Network, reports the New York Post. Food Network…
Al Jazeera America, the cable news network that is being made from Current TV, is opening its first U.S. news bureaus, and the channel’s initial list of sites includes places without many competitors, reports TVNewser. An unofficial list of 12…
"Today" co-host Matt Lauer, who has been widely blamed for last year’s ouster of his former co-host Ann Curry, appeared on "The Tonight Show" and told Jay Leno that he’s "not a guy who complains," according to The Hollywood Reporter….
The so-called "streamageddon" at Netflix, when the service lost hundreds of titles from its library, turned out to be not such a big deal after all, reports the Los Angeles Times. The "great ‘Netflix purge’ of 2013 was wildly exaggerated,"…
Nicki Minaj has landed some verbal blows against rival diva Mariah Carey as the sparring between the two “American Idol” judges continues. In an exchange of tweets with entertainment blogger Perez Hilton, Minaj called Carey “insecure” and “bitter,” USA Today…
The executive who has run a cable network that’s in more than 90 million homes is leaving after 6 years leading the network. Writes our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com, "Marc Juris, who has led Turner Broadcasting’s TruTV as EVP…
Glenn Britt, Time Warner Cable’s chairman and CEO, "said his company may consider capturing television content from public airwaves and delivering them to customers over an Internet connection, a practice that has shaken the entertainment industry.," reports Cecilia Kang in…