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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.
Google is mapping out a "celebrity acquisition plan" to help boost Google+, its three-week-old social network, according to CNN, which cites Google emails. Google reportedly is considering asking celebrities to fax a copy of their driver’s license to the company,…
Showtime plans to air a nonfiction feature about one of the former Beatles, which will start tracking him when his plane was grounded on the tarmac in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, reports the New York Post’s ArtsBeat blog….
HBO’s "Game of Thrones" has tapped actors to fill some of the second season’s biggest roles — the sorceress Melisandre, the would-be king Stannis and his "Onion Knight" Davos, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Melisandre, a priestess with magical powers…
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., told a select committee of Parliament today that he has not considered resigning over the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked his company. He answered "No," when asked whether he would consider resigning. Asked…
"Piers Morgan, host of CNN’s "Piers Morgan Tonight" and a former editor of two British tabloid newspapers, on Tuesday called a British lawmaker’s allegations that he participated in phone hacking ‘nonsense,’" CNN says on its website in an article written by…
CBS filed a lawsuit today against the writer-producer of an upcoming NBC series, claiming the show was developed for CBS and was taken without CBS’s permission to NBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is “The Firm,” based on…
Changes continue at NBC News, where division President Steve Capus announced a couple of key executive moves today, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Nightly News With Brian Williams” executive producer Bob Epstein is leaving the program to head the division’s…
The season premiere of Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” was the top-rated show of the night as Fox beat out ABC for the No. 1 spot overall in Monday’s prime-time ratings, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox finished the night with a 2.4 rating in…
Even as AMC celebrates a robust boost in viewership for "Breaking Bad’s" return on Sunday, creator Vince Gilligan has rained on the parade by confirming that the show will end after Season Five, reports The New York Times. Gilligan explained…
The nominees for the 37th Annual Humanitas Prize have been announced, with some of the most honored television programs to compete against each other in three categories, reports TVLine.com The Humanitas Prize goes to writers whose work "explores the human…