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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.
A TV writer, producer and showrunner with a string of comedy credits has died from complications related to cancer treatment, reports Deadline.com. Jeffrey Hodes, who was in his 40s, had a blood transfusion in preparation for a bone marrow transplant…
A popular former anchor of CNN’s “American Morning” may be returning to her achor chair on the show, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Soledad O’Brien, who anchored the morning show from 2003 to 2007, may get her old…
Kirstie Alley allegedly made a diva-like demand in the run-up to a Long Island 9/11 tribute on Sunday, only to have the idea shot down for security reasons, reports the New York Post. Sources said Alley wanted a helicopter landing…
One of the former hosts of CBS’s “The Talk” took a moment to talk about her frustration over being fired from the show, E! Online reports. Holly Robinson Peete said she wasn’t given a reason why her contract failed to…
When TV gets ahold of a trend, there’s no stopping it, and lately the trend — apparently set off by AMC’s “Mad Men” — has been retro: ABC’s “Pan Am,” NBC’s “Playboy Club” and so on. Now ABC has bought…
For actor Nicolas Cage, his newest movie sounds a bit like art imitating life. Cage, in Toronto with “Trespass” director Joel Schumacher to promote the new thriller, talked about a frightening event in his own life that has some parallels…
News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, speaking at a media conference on Tuesday, noted that the company is trying to capitalize on its huge library of episodes of "The Simpsons" — and one idea is to create a digital…
Spike TV announced that it has given a renewal to one of its original series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cable channel ordered a 10-episode second season of the hourlong series “Bar Rescue,” the story reports. The show, which…
Television executives from companies including Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Viacom’s CBS said advertising remains strong in the second half of 2011, despite concerns that the economy may be slowing, reports Bloomberg. The executives commented on the strength of the ad market…
The Directors Guild of America has released a survey that highlights what appears to be a persistent problem for the television industry — the lack of diversity in prime-time television, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The survey…