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.

Glenn Beck Wants a Piece of the Fox News Pie

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a push that will place his media company, TheBlaze, in more direct competition with his former employer, Fox News Channel, reports TVNewser.com. Beck has launched a campaign called GetTheBlaze, which urges fans to call…

ABC Announces This Season’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Celebrity and Professional Pairings Live on ‘Good Morning America’

Press release from ABC Entertainment, Feb. 26, 2013: The stellar new cast will take to the stage when “Dancing with the Stars” premieres Monday, March 18, on ABC “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show” premieres in week two with…

ABC TV Series Spawns Magazine

An ABC television show has spawned its own magazine, which will act as a companion to the TV series, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The series is the fairy-tale drama "Once Upon a Time." Two special collector’s editions…

Alicia Silverstone to Play Lead in Drama

Actress Alicia Silverstone, known for her performances in movies including “The Crush,” “Batman & Robin” and “Clueless,” has been cast as the lead in Lifetime’s drama pilot "HR," Deadline.com reports. The project was ordered contingent on casting the lead, the…

Netflix CEO Signals Surprising Plans for ‘Arrested Development’

Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said that the streaming service’s revival of "Arrested Development" is likely to vary from most of the other original programming the service is producing, reports Deadline.com. For most of its announced original series, such as…

‘Chucko the Clown’ Dies — Performer Took Over the Character Originally Played by His Father

The performer who played "Chucko the Clown” for years after taking over the character from his father has died. The Los Angeles Times reports that Randy Runyon died Wednesday, Feb. 20, after a battle with lung cancer. He was 57….

How the Oscar Producers Carried Out a Mission as Secret as the One Depicted in ‘Argo’: Getting Michelle Obama to Present the Award for Best Picture. The Connection to FDR’s Fireside Chats

"On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them):…

The Person Who Caused Users to Make the Most Tweets Per Minute During the Oscars Was NOT Seth MacFarlane, nor Jennifer Lawrence, nor Michelle Obama, nor Streisand, nor Halle Berry, nor Ben Affleck. It WAS …

"All in all, there were 8.9 million tweets about the 85th Academy Awards: 2.1 million during the red carpet, and 6.8 million during the awards show," writes Twitter’s Fred Graver on the company’s blog. Graver adds, "The events that drove…

C. Everett Koop, Who Transformed the Office of Surgeon General Into an Activist’s Position — Dies at 96

"C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America’s attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96," the Associated Press and CBS News report….

Michael Jackson’s Son to Make Acting Debut on Season Finale of CW Series

The eldest son of the late pop singing superstar Michael Jackson — Prince Michael Jackson, 16 — will make his acting debut on the season finale of a CW series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Says the report, by Philiana Ng,…