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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.
"Sesame Street" producer Sesame Workshop has announced job cuts, Deadline.com reports. The company laid off about a dozen employees, with most of the cuts in its digital media department, the story says. The cuts were at its New York offices…
With about a month to go until the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 23, a deal has been completed to move the annual awards show to HLN, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The telecast will shift from CBS and air…
Lifetime has cast the part of Richard Burton in its biopic “Liz & Dick,” which features Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor. Burton will be played by "True Blood" actor Grant Bowler, Deadline.com reports. Bowler played the V-addicted werewolf Cooter on…
Actress Sharon Stone has been hit with a lawsuit accusing her of harassment, retaliation and other forms of mistreatment of her former nanny, TheWrap.com reports. Erlinda T. Elemen, a former nanny to Stone’s three children, filed the suit claiming that…
A movie that created a sensation back in 1973 — with some movie goers leaving the theaters early in disgust — is being remade into a TV miniseries, New York magazine reports. The movie is the Oscar-winning hit film “The…
An actress with a long string of film and TV credits — including what may be her best-remembered role as Tom Cruise’s mother in the 1983 hit “Risky Business” — has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Janet Carroll was…
The 2011-12 television season officially wrapped up Wednesday night, with CBS continuing its strategy of airing repeat programming and Fox coasting to an easy win for the night behind the “American Idol” finale, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. According to Nielsen overnights, the…
One of the top program hosts in cable news has signed a new multiyear deal to remain with his network, Entertainment Weekly reports. The deal will keep Sean Hannity at Fox News for the foreseeable future, the story reports. As…
One broadcast network ended the 2011-12 season with a number of network records, including more nights at No. 1 in the key 18-49 demo than ever before. The network is the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Univision Communications reported that its flagship…
With the end of the 2011-12 television season Wednesday night, the numbers are coming in for the season as a whole. CBS emerged — for the ninth time in 10 years — as the most-watched network, The Washington Post reports….