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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.
HBO has optioned the rights to a sequel to bestseller "Game Change," which was about the 2008 presidential campaign, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The new book, set to be published in fall 2013, will come from "Game…
A comedy project from Chuck Lorre, the man behind "The Big Bang Theory" and “Two and a Half Men,” has received a pilot production order from CBS, reports Deadline.com. The project, called "Mom," is about a newly sober single mother…
Jennifer Love Hewitt is executive producing a modern-day take on the classic Jane Austen novel "Pride & Prejudice" for Lifetime, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The project, "Darcy’s Town," retells the novel in a small Virginia town, the…
PBS has named a new head of programming, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The job goes to Beth Hoppe, who has worked at the public broadcaster since August 2011. Hoppe replaces John Wilson, who is…
AMC, which has found success with period shows such as "Mad Men," is turning to Colonial times for a comedy called "We Hate Paul Revere," reports Deadline.com. The show tracks two brothers who live in Colonial Boston and, as the…
ABC Family has two "Romeo and Juliet"-themed projects in the works, with both based on young-adult novels, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. "Recovery Road," a 2011 novel by Blake Nelson, focuses on a high school student who is…
Apple is testing designs for a large-screen high-resolution television with component suppliers in Asia, reports The Wall Street Journal. (The WSJ is a subscription site and not all readers may be able to access the story.) The testing could mean…
The person Beatle George Harrison once called "The godfather of world music" has died. According to the Associated Press, "Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who…
Discovery Channel announced that it has ordered production to begin on its first-ever scripted miniseries. The program is "Klondike," based on Charlotte Gray’s novel “Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike." The show “brings to life the tale about…
The American Film Institute has rolled out its list of the 10 television shows it considers the best of 2012, the AP reports. AMC and HBO had the most shows to make the list, with three each, followed by FX…