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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.

CBS News Settles Lawsuit Over Charlie Rose Allegations

“CBS News settled a lawsuit filed by three women who alleged they were harassed by former ‘CBS This Morning’ co-anchor Charlie Rose, and claimed CBS did not act despite being aware of the situation,” Variety reports. The report cites a…

AP Names Its Top TV Show of 2018 — Here Are the Top 10

The AP has come out with its list of the top shows of 2018, and in the No. 1 spot is Amazon Prime’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Here’s the rest of the Top 10: “This is Us,” NBC. “Killing Eve,”…

CBS’s All Access Has Its First Cancellation

In the first cancellation for CBS’s All Access subscription service since its launch in 2014, the network will not bring “One Dollar” back for a second season, Deadline reports. In a statement provided to Deadline, Julie McNamara, EVP, Original Content…

NBC’s California O&Os to Launch Their Own TV Series

NBC’s three owned-and-operated stations in California are set to launch their own TV program. Variety reports that KNBC-TV Los Angeles, KNTV-TV San Francisco and KNSD San Diego are readying a live daily lifestyle series, “California Live.” The program will air…

Library of Congress Adds 25 Movies to National Film Registry, Including “The Shining,” “Monterey Pop” — See the Full List

The Library of Congress announced Wednesday that it has selected 25 movies, including “Bad Day at Black Rock,” “Days of Wine and Roses” and “The Shining,” to be added to the National Film Registry. Also on the list this year…

Study Finds Female-Led Movies Are Outperforming Male Ones

A new study analyzing four years’ worth of movies determined that films led by females have been consistently outperforming those in which males have top billing, the AP reports. “The study analyzed the 350 top-grossing films worldwide released between January…

Nominations Announced for the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

The Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees in television and motion picture categories for the 25th annual SAG Awards. Programs nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series are “The Americans,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,”…

Indictments Handed Down in L.A. in Movie and TV Show Piracy Ring

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down indictments in connection with an alleged international piracy ring that offered stolen movies and TV shows online, the AP reports. Five men were indicted in the case, in which titles including…

TVWeek’s Media Buyer of the Year 2018

In early September 1989, TV Guide’s annual Fall Preview edition hit the newsstands. One of the touted shows was the upcoming fall debut of “Cops” on Fox, a new kind of cinema-verite TV. It would go on to become a…

Aaron Sorkin Project Shuts Down

The latest project from Aaron Sorkin, the prolific TV creator, screenwriter and film producer behind “The West Wing” and “The Social Network,” has shut down during pre-production. Variety reports that Amblin Entertainment put a hold on the feature film “The…