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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.
An Oscar-winning actor is reportedly close to signing a deal to play the lead in an upcoming HBO project, Deadline.com reports. Anthony Hopkins is in talks for an HBO pilot called "The Corrections," based on Jonathan Franzen’s novel and adapted…
Crown Media Family Networks, home of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, announced it has named two new directors of programming. Alexandra Smith was named director of programming for Hallmark Channel, while Ayn Prince was named to the same position…
A popular girl group will be the focus of a new reality show on the TV Guide network, reports Deadline.com. The group is Wilson Phillips, which had a big hit in 1990 with "Hold On." The group, made up of…
Katie Couric will make her debut on ABC News tonight, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 with a celebrity interview on "Nightline,"reports our friend Marisa Guthrie for The Hollywood Reporter. The interview is with actress Sarah Jessica Parker. Says the article, "the interview…
"All My Children" star Susan Lucci has added an epilogue to the paperback edition of her book, "All My Life: A Memoir," in which she describes how she blasted ABC Daytime chief Brian Frons, reports the New York Post’s Page…
Sometime on Tuesday, Sept. 6th, 2011, the producer of this year’s Oscar telecast, Brett Ratner, will tell the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the name of the one person he wants to host this year’s show, reports Nikki Finke at Deadline.com….
Comedy Central is planning a huge marketing push for Charlie Sheen’s roast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network will center the marketing campaign around Ozzy Osbourne’s classic rock song "Crazy Train," including radio tie-ins, double-decker buses in New York…
The Muscular Dystrophy Association aired its first telethon without longtime host Jerry Lewis over the weekend, and the event had its best showing since 2008, reports USA Today. The 46th annual Labor Day weekend event raised almost $61.5 million, about…
TV spots started airing Monday for a new television network, with the promise that it will debut sometime in 2012, reports B&C. The promos for World Wrestling Entertainment’s potential new network didn’t provide a specific debut date. The network would…
One of the co-hosts of CBS’s “The Talk” is officially not returning to the morning show, reports TVLine.com, citing a blog post from Holly Robinson Peete. "After weeks in limbo, I was finally ‘officially’ given word from CBS today that…