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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.
"Discovery Channel is set to announce a potentially controversial new series: A docu-soap reality show set in the country’s largest medical marijuana distributorship and starring a pot reform activist," writes our friend James Hibberd at EM.com’s Inside TV blog. The…
An "Access Hollywood" correspondent who has been with the show for six years may be leaving the NBC show, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. With her contract up for renewal, the network wants to pull Maria Menounos back…
With a lawsuit under way in which a number of former “Happy Days” stars are suing CBS Studios for more than $10 million, the complainants have reportedly received checks for $6,000 to $6,500 each — and the studio says that’s…
Katie Couric will start her work with ABC in August, reports Deadline.com, kicking things off with a guest co-host appearance on "The View.” With her contract taking effect Aug. 1, Couric will appear on "The View" two days later, the…
Two senators are asking the Dow Jones & Co. Special Committee, a group of journalism professionals, to probe whether News Corp. senior executives in the U.S. were involved in the company’s growing phone-hacking scandal, reports B&C. The senators are Jay…
Disney Channel is making a bet on who its next big star will be, grooming one of its artists to follow in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and others, reports Deadline.com. The channel is putting its formidable marketing…
A study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that one cable news channel is trailing the others in covering the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp. phone-hacking scandal — but it probably won’t come as a surprise to…
Amazon is turning up the heat in its plan to take on Hulu and Netflix with a deal to stream CBS shows, including "Numb3rs" and "Medium," reports Bloomberg. The non-exclusive agreement will allow members of Amazon’s Prime service to watch…
Bravo is readying a new show about a group of super-wealthy Persian-Americans in Southern California tentatively called "Shahs of Sunset," reports B&C. The reality TV program comes from Ryan Seacrest Productions and is described as a docu-series set in the…
In a current court case in London there was the first indication that Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who was jailed in 2007 for hacking into the phones of royal staff members for The News of The World, might have…