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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.

Emmy-Nominated Series — Dubbed by Its Creator ‘Mister Rogers for Adults’ — Gets Canceled

After 21 episodes and an Emmy nomination this past fall, a series that its creator once referred to as “Mister Rogers for adults,” has been canceled by Hulu. The program is comedian Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You America,” reports The…

A Penny Found About 70 Years Ago in a School Cafeteria Expected to Fetch $1.7 Million at Auction

“A Massachusetts teenager found a rare penny in his lunch change and kept it for more than seven decades until his recent death — without ever knowing it may be one of the most valuable US coins of all time,”…

Former Fox News Staffer Sues Showtime for $750 Million Over Her Portrayal in Upcoming Roger Ailes Miniseries

Laura Luhn, a former Fox News staffer, “is suing Showtime and others over a planned TV series about Roger Ailes that she says will portray her as an accomplice to alleged sexual abuse instead of one of the late [Fox…

YouTube Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Weird City’ From Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders Reveals Full List of Series Guest Stars

Press release from YouTube, Jan. 9, 2019: YouTube revealed the full list of guest stars for WEIRD CITY, a half-hour sci-fi comedy co-created by Academy Award and Emmy Award winning writer Jordan Peele and Emmy Award nominated writer Charlie Sanders…

Labor Complaint Filed Over ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

The Amazon comedy series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” which had a good night at Sunday’s Golden Globes, didn’t get to celebrate for long before the show was dealing with an unfair labor complaint. “The Emmy-winning Amazon comedy series’ production company,…

‘Grace and Frankie’ About to Roll Out Season Five — Here’s a Look

The hit Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie,” starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, will premiere its fifth season on the streaming service Jan. 18, and in honor of the occasion, Netflix today unleashed a saucy trailer, which you can see…

Sumner Redstone Settles Long-Running Legal Dispute With Former Companion

Ailing media mogul Sumner Redstone, the 95-year-old majority shareholder of CBS and Viacom, has settled a series of lawsuits with his ex-girlfirend just days before a trial was scheduled to start, the AP reports. The piece cites Redstone attorney Robert…

The Notorious Lorena Bobbitt Story Gets the Jordan Peele Treatment

“Lorena,” the Amazon Prime documentary series on the Lorena Bobbitt scandal of the 1990s, premieres Feb. 15, and Amazon released a trailer today for the series, which you can watch below. Here’s the official synopsis: “On a sleepy night in…

Fox News Anchor Renews Contract

Fox News Channel announced today that it has agreed on a new multiyear contract with chief political anchor Bret Baier. Baier will remain anchor and executive editor of “Special Report” and will co-anchor all 2020 election coverage. Jay Wallace, president…

Was It Racism or a Slip of the Tongue? Weatherman’s Firing Over Alleged Racial Slur Sparks Controversy

The chief meteorologist at an NBC TV station was fired Monday after saying something on the air that has been interpreted as a racial slur. The New York Post reports that Jeremy Kappell of WHEC-TV in Rochester, N.Y. got the…