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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.
One of the stars of the long-running Fox period sitcom "That ’70s Show" has been arrested in North Carolina, TMZ.com reports. Lisa Robin Kelly, who played Eric Forman’s (Topher Grace) promiscuous older sister on the comedy series, was arrested for…
"Two and a Half Men" star Angus T. Jones has opened up for the first time after sparking a controversy with statements he made in a church testimonial, in which he called the CBS comedy "filth" and urged viewers not…
Former “Two and a Half Men” star and longtime Chuck Lorre foil Charlie Sheen is joining in the feeding frenzy over a video featuring “Men’s” Angus T. Jones calling the CBS sitcom “filth,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sheen seized…
A former “Saturday Night Live” cast member returns to the program as guest host for the show’s Christmas episode, Deadline.com reports, with a former Beatle scheduled as the musical guest. Martin Short will return to "SNL” for his third hosting…
Television’s share of advertising will decline in 2013, as marketers shift to digital media, reports Deadline.com, citing a survey of 50 ad buyers from Cowen & Co. The ad buyers are positive about next year, predicting that overall U.S. ad…
Huell Howser, who has been creating shows about California for public television for decades, is retiring from creating new programs, reports the Sacramento Bee. Howser didn’t issue a press release about his decision to retire, because he didn’t want to…
High-concept period drama pilots from the producers of "Breaking Bad" and "Nikita" have been ordered by AMC, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. "Halt & Catch Fire" is set during the 1980s PC boom in Texas’ "Silicon Prairie." Characters will include an…
"Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes has been signed by NBC to create a period drama set in the Gilded Age of New York City, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times. The drama, to be produced by NBC Universal…
A complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks more than $14 million in profits from the CBS reality series “Survivor” and other shows, Deadline.com reports. Former CBS and NBC Business Affairs VP Layne Leslie Britton accuses Mark Burnett’s…
"Several news executives close to [Jeff] Zucker said this week that they believed he had been chosen to run CNN, and they expected the appointment to be announced soon. People close to the Time Warner chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes,…