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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.
"Survivor" host Jeff Probst is close to a deal with NBC’s owned-and-operated stations for his syndicated daily talk show, reports Deadline.com. That means the show, which is distributed by CBS TV Distribution, will be cleared for a fall 2012 debut,…
One day after Brett Ratner exited the Oscars broadcast amid a furor over a gay slur, comedian Eddie Murphy followed suit, announcing he’s off the show, Reuters reports. Murphy had been scheduled to host after being recruited by Ratner. Murphy…
Matthew Fox, who was a star on ABC’s "Lost," has filed a counterclaim in response to an accusation filed in court against him by bus driver Heather Bormann, the UPI reports. Boorman, who drove a Cleveland charter bus, claimed that…
Nickelodeon is preparing to launch a new nightly prime-time programming block, along with an interactive website, with a target demo of moms, Multichannel News reports. NickMom, a multiplatform content destination, will include four hours of prime-time programming on Nick Jr.,…
Actor Morgan Freeman will be honored at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced. Actress Amy Adams and film director Pedro Almodovar made the announcement this morning in Hollywood….
CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist announced today that Eric Sherling has been named director of Washington programming. Sherling had previously been executive broadcast producer of ABC News’ "Good Morning America." Sherling was previously with CNN starting in 2000, and…
CBS is reviving a classic TV Western that first went on the air in the 1950s, part of a recent surge in Western-themed television projects, Deadline.com reports. The classic 1958 Western "The Rifleman" will be the basis for the new…
An actress who starred in television shows in the 1950s and 1960s and was the mother of a two-time Academy Award winner has died, reports The New York Times. Margaret Field, who starred in some of the most-watched television shows…
It’s gonna be a fun weekend in Atlanta when the Turner alumni gather to fete Ted Turner. And it’s still not too late to attend. Click here to see a video with all the details.
NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" and cast member Andy Samberg, along with NBCUniversal, were sued for copyright infringement, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The suit was filed by two musicians who claim they created and copyrighted the music behind the "SNL"…