Chuck Ross

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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.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We Have a Winner! We Have a Winner! Who’s the Company or Person Exhibiting the Most Insane, Self-Destructive Behavior in the Past 12 Months? No, It’s Not Charlie Sheen or Lindsay Lohan or Anthony Weiner. It’s Reed Hastings and Netflix

Paging Dr. Drew. Paging Dr. Drew. Please, someone — anyone — do an intervention before our once beloved Netflix is gone forever. First, let us pray. Gather around all your co-workers or your family. Dear God, please stop whatever has…

Fresh Off Her First Emmy, Melissa McCarthy Creating New CBS Series

Emmy-winning actress Melissa McCarthy, a star of CBS’s "Mike & Molly," is creating a new series for the network, reports TheWrap.com. The untitled series would focus on a woman starting her life over after a midlife crisis, the story notes,…

Web Producer of Canceled ABC Soaps Signs First ‘All My Children’ Stars

Prospect Park, the company that is migrating ABC’s canceled soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" to the Web, has reached its first agreement with "All My Children" cast members to continue the show, reports Deadline.com. The actors…

News Corp. to Pay $4.7 Million to Settle Phone-Hacking Claims in Murdered Schoolgirl Case

News Corp. will pay 3 million pounds, or $4.7 million, to settle claims that its defunct tabloid News of the World hacked the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, reports Bloomberg. Included in the settlement are a 2 million-pound…

VH1 Greenlights Docu-Series

VH1 has greenlighted a new docu-series, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The half-hour show will focus on celebrity stylist June Ambrose. "The June Ambrose Project" will track Ambrose and her assistants as they work on established…

Early Returns on ‘Two and a Half Men’: Hot, Hot, Hot (And Another Hotly Anticipated Show: Not, Not, Not)

CBS’s eagerly awaited season premiere of the retooled “Two and a Half Men,” with Ashton Kutcher taking the place of longtime star Charlie Sheen, appears to have hit it out of the park in the ratings. The numbers are preliminary,…

Bill O’Reilly Says He Has ‘More Power Than Anybody Other Than the President’; Even So, There’s One Major Political Figure Who Won’t Do His Show

Bill O’Reilly, the host of ‘The O’Reilly Factor" on Fox News, tells Newsweek that he believes he has "more power than anybody other than the president." "I can get things changed, quickly,” he said, according to the story. “I don’t…