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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.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes has issued a new directive to the network’s staff, requiring them to get permission before booking either Karl Rove or Dick Morris, reports Gabriel Sherman in New York Magazine. Both pundits have dropped in visibility…
Jamie Foxx is working on a crime drama for TNT, reports Deadline.com. The project, based on an idea from Foxx, is called "Hit." The show is co-written by Foxx and former "Numb3rs" co-executive producer Robert Port. The project tracks two…
Bravo is moving toward launching its first original scripted series after picking up two scripted pilots, reports Deadline.com. Both are from established women writer-producers: Liz Tigelaar’s "The Joneses" and Krista Vernoff’s "Rita," the story says. "The Joneses" is based on…
TNT has lined up a replacement for Brendan Fraser in the drama pilot "Legends," reports TheWrap.com. The cable channel tapped "Game of Thrones" star Sean Bean for the role, according to the report. As previously reported, Fraser dropped out of…
Former "Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure" star Alex Winter has sold a show about Midwestern militia to AMC, reports Deadline.com. Called "Rights of Bill," the drama focuses on a sheriff who creates his own militia in Wisconsin, becoming an outlaw…
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward writes in The Washington Post today, Dec. 4, 2012, "[I]n spring 2011, [Fox News Chairman Roger] Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed to Afghanistan to pass on his thoughts to [Gen. David] Petraeus, who…
One Three Media has announced the hiring of veteran TV and creative executive Terry Wood, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Mark Burnett and Hearst-owned company named Wood president of unscripted and original syndication. Wood was most recently president of…
NBC hasn’t given up on rebooting vintage TV shows. Even though it struck out spectacularly last time — with its attempt to bring “The Munsters” back to TV, as reported previously — the network is diving back into the reboot…
An ABC drama series sank to an all-time low in the ratings as the network found itself mired in fifth place among broadcast networks Monday night, based on Nielsen overnight figures. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that ABC’s “Castle” fell three-tenths of a…
The home of “Animation Domination,” Fox Television, has greenlighted its first new cartoon series in more than two years, Deadline.com reports. "Murder Police" — a twist on the cop procedurals that have proliferated in prime time — comes from former…