Chuck Ross

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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.

BBC Abuse Case Widens With Arrest of 1970s Rock Star

The BBC sexual abuse scandal widened Sunday with the arrest of a 1970s rock star in connection with the case, The New York Times reports. British police arrested Paul Gadd, who is better known as the 1970s glam rock star…

Bonnie Hunt Lands Comedy Project at ABC

ABC has tapped actress Bonnie Hunt for a new comedy project, Deadline.com reports. The program, titled "compliKATEd," is about an insecure woman dealing with a complicated life, according to the report. The project is produced by Ben Stiller’s Red Hour…

TNT Casts Actresses Mira Sorvino, Rebecca Romijn in New Projects

TNT has cast actresses Mira Sorvino and Rebecca Romijn in pilots, reports TheWrap.com. Sorvino, an Oscar winner for the 1995 Woody Allen film “Mighty Aphrodite,” has been cast in "Trooper," a procedural from Jerry Bruckheimer. Romijn will star in "King…

Cable Network G4 to Wrap Up ‘Attack of the Show’ and ‘X-Play’

Press release from G4, Oct. 26, 2012: “Attack of the Show!” and “X-Play” are the longest-running and defining series for G4 through its first decade. With the shows ending production at the end of 2012, G4 is getting set to…

Tribune and Cablevision Settle Dispute, Returning TV Stations to Cable Lineup

Tribune and Cablevision reached a deal late Friday night, restoring Tribune-owned stations to Cablevision’s customers, reports the New York Post. "We are pleased to have reached agreement with Tribune to return its stations to Cablevision, particularly its Fox affiliate in…

NBCU Secures Exclusive Rights to English Premier League Soccer Matches

The exclusive U.S. media rights to the English Premier League were sold to NBCUniversal, which will air the league’s soccer matches on NBC, NBC Sports Network, Telemundo, mun2 and NBCSports.com, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The three-year deal, worth about…

TV Doing What TV Does Best

Millions of citizens will be watching TV in the next 24-48 hours, tracking Hurricane Sandy. There will be plenty of people watching from thousands of miles away, like I’ve been doing here in L.A. But there will also be the…

File Under ‘Little Details’: Rupert Murdoch Misses Steve Jobs’ Death Anniversary by Three Weeks

News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch sent out a tweet Sunday commemorating the one-year passing of Steve Jobs, but there was one problem: Murdoch was off by 23 days, reports Deadline.com. The tweet read, "Today. Is anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death….

HBO Finalizes Plans to Wrap Up ‘Treme’

HBO unveiled how extensive its production plans are for its New Orleans-based drama series “Treme,” which is approaching its endgame, Deadline.com reports. The pay-cable network will begin production Nov. 5 on an abbreviated final season. The final season — the…

Cable Network Reportedly For Sale

A cable network that has been around for a few years is reportedly about to go up for sale. The New York Post reports that Current TV, launched in August 2005 by former Vice President Al Gore, is on the…