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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.
ABC has bought a semi-autobiographical comedy from one of the stars of the network’s hit sitcom "Modern Family." The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network ordered the project from Ty Burrell, who plays Phil Dunphy on “Modern Family.”…
With the presidential race tightening before the election, cable networks are coming out the winner, reports the New York Post. Spending on local cable spots should jump to $550 million, according to Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker, who previously forecast…
CBS has moved quickly to tweak its fall schedule, becoming the first network of the season to cancel a show. Entertainment Weekly reports that the network has pulled the plug on its Friday night legal drama “Made in Jersey.” The…
Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds — whose long career was jump-started by her lead performance in the 1952 musical classic “Singin’ in the Rain” — has been hospitalized, Entertainment Weekly reports. Reynolds, 80, reportedly had a bad reaction to medication. Her…
The theme song for “Skyfall,” the new James Bond movie, performed by Adele, is already a huge hit, racking up more than 23 million views on YouTube in less than a week. Here’s the clip:
Lifetime announced today that it has renewed a docu-series that has been performing well for the cable channel. The series is “Dance Moms,” which will return for a third season. Lifetime ordered 26 new episodes of the hour show, with…
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Ted Koppel has revealed the only time in his career as a journalist that he decided not to air a story, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Koppel spoke to THR yesterday, Oct. 9, 2012, at an event promoting the release of Ben…
A popular cable drama series that helped define ABC Family is coming to an end, according to Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Andreeva wrties that "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the "drama from ‘7th Heaven’ creator Brenda Hampton, was the…
Hmm. Looks like if you want to really have a hot property you need to get your hands on a story that’s 150 years old or so. Take, for example, the Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations," first published as a newspaper…