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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.
Beyonce Knowles revealed her pregnancy at MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday, reports MTV.com. Knowles has been married to Jay-Z for three years and had previously said she wanted to start a family by the time she was 30, the…
Apple is ending its 99-cent rentals of television shows, the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog reports. The company has decided to focus instead on sales of TV episodes. The reason? “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV…
Police investigating the death of Michael Showers, whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River this week, say the actor died of drowning, People magazine reports. Showers, who had a small role in HBO’s “Treme,” was reportedly battling anxiety…
Baltimore station WBAL-TV is standing behind a report it aired on the suicide of former Cy Young Award winner and baseball commentator Mike Flanagan, even though discrepancies have surfaced between that report and the police investigation, the Baltimore Sun reports….
One of the stars of “My Name Is Earl” has struck a deal with prosecutors that will enable her to stay out of jail in her DUI case, E! Online reports. Jaime Pressly pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count…
As the East Coast braced this afternoon for Hurricane Irene, TV news outlets mustered their resources to cover the storm’s landfall, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The networks had different approaches to today’s brief speech by President Obama on the…
With Steve Jobs cutting back his role at Apple, the iconic tech guru is all over the media this week. One of the more interesting takes on Jobs appears in The Huffington Post, where columnist James Altucher reveals 10 tidbits…
Two of the people behind “Friday Night Lights” have received a script order from NBC for a new Western series, as the genre continues to build momentum with the TV networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Peter Berg, one of…
An actor best known for his role on the hit ABC drama “Lost” will find himself back on the nework soon, reports TVLine.com. Alan Dale, who played Charles Widmore on “Lost,” will appear in the network’s new fantasy series, “Once…
ABC has turned down an ad for the film "Our Idiot Brother," sending a memo to the Weinstein Co. outlining its objections, reports the New York Post. The ad has been running on other networks. “Please remove the visual of…