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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.

Report Lists 11 Network Shows at Risk of Being Canceled

With the television season just a few weeks old, 11 shows are "on the bubble" — meaning that they are at risk for cancellation, reports TVGuide.com, which bases its list on the shows’ ratings. CBS’s "Hawaii Five-0" made the list, even…

Rock Band Asks Fox News to Stop Playing Its Music

The lead singer of a popular rock band has sent an angry message to Fox News, Rolling Stone reports. "The Voice" mentor and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine issued a tweet Wednesday to tell the cable news channel to stop…

Moammar Gadhafi Killed in Libya

Ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been confirmed dead, a wide range of news outlets report. Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed Gadhafi’s death today in Tripoli, The Washington Post reports. Gadhafi died in his home town of Sirte, Libya,…

Former Co-Host of ‘The Talk’ Lands at TV Land

A former co-host of CBS’s daytime chat show “The Talk” has landed a new job, Deadline.com reports. The TV Land comedy "Retired at 35" tapped former "The Talk" co-host Marissa Jaret Winokur to co-star, the story reports. Winokur will play…

New Daytime Talk Show Sold to Sinclair’s Station Group and Its 27 Markets, Including Tampa, St. Louis and Pittsburgh

A new daytime talk show has been picked up by the Sinclair Station Group and its 27 markets, NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution announced. According to the announcement, the new show, "Trisha," will be hosted by Trisha Goddard, who is best known for her…

‘Happy Days’ Lawsuit Suffers a Setback

The gang from "Happy Days" has received a setback in its $10 million lawsuit over merchandising sales against CBS, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood Esq. blog. Los Angeles Judge Elizabeth Allen White threw out a charge that CBS committed…

Simon Cowell Chimes In on Whether ‘X Factor’ Host Steve Jones Is Leaving the Show

Responding to reports that Steve Jones might be leaving Fox’s "The X Factor," Simon Cowell told the New York Post’s Page Six that the show’s host isn’t going anywhere. “There is a lot of speculation about Steve Jones leaving the show….

Witness to Vancouver Fracas Says Shia LaBeouf Threatened to Pull Knife

A witness to a fight involving Shia LaBeouf says the actor threatened to pull a knife on him after being knocked to the ground by another man, TMZ.com reports. The sidewalk fracas was captured on video, which can be seen…

We Have a Date for the Return of NBC’s ‘Fear Factor’ — and Good News for the 12-Year-Old in All of Us: Network Says It’ll Be Grosser Than Ever

"NBC is promising to make ‘Factor’ even grosser this time around," the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog reports. The network has scheduled the return of the reality show known for getting its contestants to eat live bugs and other unpleasant…

After Falling to Third Place, MSNBC Shuffles Its Prime-Time Schedule

After falling to third place among cable news channels, MSNBC is tweaking its prime-time lineup, bumping Lawrence O’Donnell from his 8 p.m. time slot to 10 p.m., reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. "The change…