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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.
Seth MacFarlane and writers from the feature film “Ted” have received a put-pilot with series penalty commitment from Fox for a live-action comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The untitled project will be written and executive produced by…
Netflix has dropped about 800 hours of A&E Networks content, including "Storage Wars" and "American Pickers," reports TheWrap.com. The content was pulled after a contract to stream the content expired, the story notes. About 300 hours that weren’t covered in…
ABC has bought two comedies from Ben Stiller, with one of them based on his life, reports Deadline.com. The comedies, from Stiller’s Red Hour Television, are "Please Knock" and "The Notorious Mollie Flowers," the story notes. Both are produced by…
Memories of “Must-See TV” are growing ever more distant. NBC unveiled its new Thursday night programming lineup last night, only to see it greeted by a less than stellar turnout among viewers. Citing Nielsen overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reports that the entire…
Cast members from “The West Wing” — including Martin Sheen, Allison Janney and Lily Tomlin — got back together for an unusual campaign ad done in the style of the long-running NBC drama. Time magazine reports that actress Mary McCormack,…
Lifetime has given a renewal to a long-running drama series, Deadline.com reports. Premiering in 2013 will be season seven of “Army Wives.” The network ordered 13 episodes. Season six, in which the series delivered an average of 3.2 million viewers,…
Sharon Osbourne has opened up again about her unhappiness with NBC, savaging the network and NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “The outspoken reality personality continues to lash out at the network that employed…
Another one of the original stars of "Dallas" will be joining TNT’s new incarnation of the prime-time soap, TV Guide reports. Audrey Landers, who originated the role of Afton Cooper, Cliff Barnes’ (Ken Kercheval) lover, will be part of the…
The NBC comedy series "The Office" has cast Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report," as a character called Broccoli Rob, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Broccoli Rob is a member of Here Comes Treble, Andy’s a cappella…
The Fox talent competition show "The X Factor" has settled on its new host, according to a report in the New York Post, and is close to signing a deal giving the job to "Extra" host Mario Lopez. Lopez, 38,…