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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.

TCA Report #2: Date Set for New Ken Burns Documentary; American Master David Geffen Explains Why a Dreamworks Studio Could Not be Started Today

During PBS’ portion of the Television Critics Association tour over the weekend it was announced that award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will have have a new documentary on PBS stations November 18-19, 2012. Burns new documentary is called "The Dust…

Report: Mariah Carey Close to Signing Deal to Be ‘Idol Judge’; She’ll Be Paid Even More Than JLo Made on Show

"Mariah Carey is finalizing a deal to join Fox’s ‘American Idol’ as a new judge," writes our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com, adding, "I hear Carey would command a salary of more than $17 million for next season, which would…

‘The Vampire Diaries’ and ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Are The Big TV Winners at the Teen Choice Awards. We Have the Complete List of Winners

"The Vampire Diaries," seen on The CW, and "Pretty Little Liars," seen on ABC Family, were the big TV winners at the Teen Choice Awards broadcast on Fox on Sunday, July 22, 2012. To see the complete list of Teen Choice Award-winners, please click…

Report: Twitter and NBC in Olympics Partnership

Twitter employees "will spend 20 hours a day to help corral millions of Twitter messages from Olympic athletes, their families, fans and NBC television personalities into a single page on Twitter.com," reports The Wall St. Journal, adding, "Twitter’s Olympics hub,…

One Victim of Theater Shooting Worked at Local Denver-Area Radio Station; She Barely Avoided a Mall Shooting a Month Ago

Jessica Ghawi, 24, who went professionally by the name of Jessica Redfield, was one of the 12 victims of the shooting massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Col, early today, July 20, 2012, according to a number of media reports….

Movie Critics React to Shooting: Roger Ebert ‘Not sure there is an easy link between movies and gun violence.’ New Yorker Critic Says, ‘No film makes you kill’

Two major movie critics have checked in with reactions to the shooting of 70 people today during a screening of the new Batman movie in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Roger Ebert, perhaps the best known movie critic in…

Christopher Nolan, Writer-Director of Rebooted ‘Batman’ Movies, Issues Statement on Theater Shooting

Christopher Nolan, who is the writer-director of the rebooted ‘Batman’ movie trilogy, has released a statement about the shooting today during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" that killed 12 people in Aurora, Colorado, reports TMZ. Here’s the entire…

Colorado Shooting Suspect Identifies Himself as the Joker

The suspect in a deadly shooting spree early today inside an Aurora, Colo., movie theater has identified himself as “The Joker,” according to some media reports, although Aurora authorities refused to comment on the claim, the Denver Post reports. A…

Theater Shooting Will Unite Ann Curry and Savannah Guthrie on ‘Today’

In the wake of the deadly shooting early Friday in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., one intriguing media twist being reported is that two hosts of the “Today” show who have been making headlines at NBC will be reunited,…

Security Is Ramped Up at Movie Theaters in Wake of Shooting

Security has been beefed up at screenings of the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” after a gunman went on a rampage at a Colorado theater early this morning, the Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, movie theater owners are scrambling…