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.

CBS Takes a Shot at ABC With Press Release Announcing (Presumably as a Joke) ‘Dancing on the Stars’ — Featuring Routines Danced on Hollywood Graves

After failing to convince a judge to halt ABC’s "Big Brother"-like show "Glass House," CBS took a jab at ABC by announcing a new show called "Dancing on the Stars." According to a press release from CBS’s public relations department,…

America’s Most Famous Sports Painter, LeRoy Neiman, Dies

He was by far America’s most famous painter of sporting events and sports figures. LeRoy Neiman, 91, has died, Reuters reports. According to the report, Gail Parenteau, Neiman’s publicist, "said he died at Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of natural causes. He had…

‘Simpsons’ Creator Ends Comic Strip That Led to TV Show

"The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening is ending the familiar syndicated comic strip that ran for more than three decades and was crucial in the development of "The Simpsons," reports The New York Times’ ArtsBeat. "Life in Hell," which first appeared…

MTV Orders Comedy Pilot

MTV is ready to make a star of a young female comedian, placing a pilot order for a show tracking her relationships with her mostly male comedian friends, Deadline.com reports. The project, “Little Esther,” focuses on Esther Povitsky. Povitsky was…

Comcast Predicts Surge in VOD Advertising

Comcast is predicting a 10-fold surge in video-on-demand advertising impressions over the next year via its free VOD content, reports Multichannel News, citing Chip Meehan, Comcast Spotlight’s West regional vice president of integrated media sales. "We have 400 million monthly…

‘Liz & Dick’ Working Conditions Now Being Monitored

IATSE, the union that represents most crew members on movies and television shows, is monitoring the working conditions and hours on the Lifetime movie "Liz & Dick" after reports of exhaustion by two crew members and star Lindsay Lohan, according…

A&E Renews Reality Series

A&E has announced the renewal of a reality series for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is "Duck Dynasty," which chronicles the lives of the Louisiana family the Robertsons, who are in the duck call business….

Emmy, Tony, Grammy and Oscar Winner Scott Rudin Is a Risk-Taker. Why He — or Some Other Producer — Needs to Take a Risk on This American Masterwork. And That’s No Pipe Dream. Plus, One of the Greatest Performances Ever. And What Happened in 1946?

Not often produced by major theaters, a new production of “The Iceman Cometh” by Eugene O’Neill — a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature — ended its extended run last weekend at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. As this…

NBC Reportedly Planning to Replace Ann Curry on ‘Today’

"NBC executives are readying a plan to replace Ann Curry on the ‘Today’ show, only a year after she became the co-host of the iconic franchise," reports Brian Stelter on The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, in a major…

CBS in Talks to Revive Canceled Series

CBS is reportedly talking with the production company behind a series that was canceled by the network, with the plan being to try to bring the show back for a summer run of 13 episodes. The show is the Poppy…