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Chuck Ross

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.

Jackson Family Patriarch Joe Jackson Suffers Stroke

Joseph "Joe" Jackson, the patriarch of the Jackson family and the manager of the Jackson 5, has suffered a stroke, reports Reuters. Jackson was recovering in a Las Vegas hospital and is said to be dong well, according to a…

CBS Gives Straight-to-Series Order to Steven Spielberg/Stephen King Drama

CBS is breaking out of the mold of its trademark police procedurals with a new drama series from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, Deadline.com reports. The network gave a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of “Under the Dome,” based on…

Video: Harvey Weinstein on ‘SEAL Team Six’ Controversy, Oprah’s Movie Surprise and His Beef With NFL Network

Mega-producer Harvey Weinstein talks about his hassle with NFL Network over his new movie “Silver Linings Playbook” — among other hot topics — in a new interview video posted by Reuters TV. Deadline.com reports that NFL Network canceled a scheduled…

Charlie Sheen Offers a Job to Angus T. Jones

Charlie Sheen, the star of FX’s "Anger Management," invited his former co-star on CBS’s "Two and a Half Men," Angus T. Jones, to join Sheen’s current show, reports ABC News. Sheen said in an interview with the news site, "My…

Four-Way Logjam Atop the Broadcast Ratings for Wednesday Night

The big four broadcast networks finished in a tight four-network pack in the prime-time ratings race Wednesday night, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that Fox and ABC both finished with 2.8 average ratings for prime time in the key…

For the First Time in Its 64-Year History, Motor Trend Gives Its Car of the Year Award to a Vehicle With No Internal Combustion Engine — Can You Guess What It Is?

Motor Trend magazine has named its 2013 Car of the Year, and for the first time in the 64-year history of the award it goes to a car with no internal combustion engine: the Tesla Model S. Writing in the…

Four-Time Emmy Winner Loses Home to Foreclosure

An actress who won four Emmys during a long run on one of television’s most popular shows has lost her Palm Springs home in a foreclosure sale, USA Today reports. Allison Janney, a familiar television actress known for NBC’s "The…

CW Cancels the Series That Had Fall Season’s Lowest-Rated Premiere

The CW has canceled the series that reportedly had the lowest-rated premiere of the fall season, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The show is the freshman medical drama "Emily Owens, M.D.," which stars Meryl Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer…

Lindsay Lohan Arrested

Lindsay Lohan was arrested this morning in New York City, according to media reports. The actress was arrested at about 4 a.m. for allegedly punching a woman at the Avenue nightclub, reports TMZ.com. Newsday reports that Lohan was charged with…

Endgame for Fox Drama: Network Still Won’t Invoke the C-Word, but the Show Is Clearly Finished

Without invoking the “C-word” — canceled — Fox appears to have determined the fate of its low-rated freshman drama "The Mob Doctor," writes Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. One big question lingering over the fall season…