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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 has tapped a well-known television personality with experience in the dating genre to host its adventure dating series "Love in the Wild," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jenny McCarthy, who hosted MTV’s “Singled Out” in the 1990s, will join…
“Dancing with the Stars” appears to be courting presidential candidates who have dropped out of the race, and one of them, Michele Bachmann, has made it official that she’s not interested, the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog reports. Bachmann…
Fox has picked up Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s international talent show, "Q’Viva! The Chosen," according to TheWrap.com. The show features Lopez, Anthony and concert director Jamie King as they search for unknown Latin performers across 20 countries, the story…
A former co-star of Fox’s long-running medical series "House" has been cast as the lead in an ABC comedy pilot, reports Deadline.com. Kal Penn will star in "Prairie Dogs" as Neil, an unhip cubicle worker (or "prairie dog") working at…
The director and producer who made headlines last year by getting himself booted from his Oscars gig has a new job — and it’s right on target if he hopes to rehabilitate his image in the wake of that PR…
Larry King and CNN have called it quits, finishing the breakup they began when King left his job as host of “Larry King Live” in 2010, The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. The two sides agreed to call…
CBS Corp. Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said the company is in talks to produce original content for Netflix, reports Bloomberg. “Until they are doing 22 hours a week of premium content, we do not look at them as a…
Hugh Laurie, whose long-running Fox drama “House” is winding down after eight seasons, let his feelings be known after reports surfaced that he was tired of the show and it was his idea to kill it, TVGuide.com reports. Fox recently…
Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros. may have settled their lawsuit over “Two and a Half Men,” but they’re apparently not quite finished with their legal hassles. Warner Bros., Sheen’s former employer, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the actor demanding that…
So how do those Redbox DVD rental kiosks get movies way before a studio authorizes them for the rental market? "The kiosk company … buys Warner Bros. discs on the open market instead of accepting the studio’s insistence that it…