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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.
NBC’s new series “Awake,” premiering against repeat programming on CBS and ABC, was a case of good news/bad news for the Peacock Network, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The good news is the show did better than the 1.4 for “The Firm” in…
NBC has won the February sweeps, paced by the Super Bowl along with strong numbers for “The Voice.” For the period from Feb. 2-29, NBC led the way in the key 18-49 demo with a 3.7 average rating, ahead of CBS…
ABC has found its “Beauty” for "Beauty and the Beast." The role in the new drama pilot will be the first U.S. acting job for a young Irish actress, Ruth Bradley, Deadline.com reports. Bradley will play Grace, an embattled princess,…
With the death this week of pop star Davy Jones, a member of the quartet created by NBC as a TV singing group called "The Monkees," the Biography Channel will honor Jones and the 1960s group with two hours of…
The list of pop divas who have been rumored to be in the running for a judging gig on “The X Factor” has just been reduced by one, TheInsider.com reports. Janet Jackson says she’s not interested, according to the report….
Andrew Breitbart, the conservative commentator who died unexpectedly at age 43 early Thursday morning, March 1, 2012, spent his last hours with a former TV executive he had never met. The former TV executive is Arthur Sando, who for years…
The broadcast networks have filed lawsuits against an online video-streaming service that has been urging customers to cut their cable cords, TheWrap.com reports. The new service, Aereo, is set to launch in New York in about two weeks. Suing it…
A high-profile comedy project in the works at HBO has suffered a setback after the pay cable network and an Oscar-winning actress agreed to end their collaboration, Deadline.com reports. Goldie Hawn, an Oscar winner for the 1969 movie “Cactus Flower,”…
So what’s Ted Turner up to? You can find out by reading "Whatever Happened to Ted Turner" by Stephen Galloway in The Hollywood Reproter. Galloway writes, "Turner doesn’t pay attention to TV anymore, other than CNN [which Turner founded]. ‘I…
Lindsay Lohan has been making the rounds of TV talk shows to promote her upcoming hosting gig on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” and her mini-tour has produced some highlights. Among them, Lohan’s appearance Thursday night on “Late Night With Jimmy…