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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.
We’re resisting the temptation to call it typecasting, but "Law & Order: SVU" will feature former boxer Mike Tyson in his major television acting debut, reports Deadline.com. Tyson will play Reggie Rhodes, a murderer on death row whose case draws…
ABC is getting more money for commercial time on its broadcast of the Oscars, with a 30-second spot going for between $1.65 million and $1.8 million in this year’s show, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. That’s up slightly from…
HLN is preparing to roll out a new daytime show hosted by Kyra Phillips, a 13-year CNN veteran who joined HLN last summer, reports TVNewser.com. Phillips will host "Raising America," which will debut Feb. 4 at noon. The new show…
A business-makeover show has been given the green light by TNT, with British entrepreneur Peter Jones traveling across the U.S. to save small businesses, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. "Save Our Business" will focus on a struggling company…
The onetime Fox Saturday night staple “COPS” is marking its 20th anniversary as a syndicated strip, and Twentieth Television is marking the occasion by rolling out an updated version, “COPS Reloaded,” B&C reports. The show has been cleared in 80%…
Hot on the heels of its controversial unscripted show “Best Funeral Ever,” TLC is poised to once again venture into reality TV with “Plastic Wives,” TheWrap.com reports. The program, set up as a special that could become a backdoor pilot…
Jimmy Kimmel’s fast start Tuesday night in the 11:35 p.m. slot didn’t hold up on night two. Bill Carter reports in The New York Times that Kimmel’s ABC show slipped to third place in its head-to-head battle with NBC’s Jay…
A TV station operator with 13 full-power stations and seven low-power stations appears poised to be put up for sale. Reuters reports that Fisher Communications Inc. is exploring its strategic options — including a possible sale. The company is under…
In a crowded field of first-year syndicated talk shows, one of the stronger performers got good news today when Barry Wallach, president of NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution, and David Goldberg, chairman and CEO of Endemol North America, jointly announced that…