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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.
Aaron Sorkin is working on an HBO miniseries about the famed Los Angeles hotel Chateau Marmont, reports Deadline.com. "The Office" star John Krasinski has been behind the show’s development and will executive produce with Sorkin, along with Chateau Marmont’s current…
On the heels of its successful “Teen Mom” reality show, MTV is working on a project with a similar approach–focused again on a mistake many young people make. This time the subject is high school dropouts, and the network hopes…
In a 5-4 ruling that limits the power of federal bankruptcy judges, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued its decision in a case involving the estate of Anna Nicole Smith. The estate will receive nothing from the $1.6 billion fortune…
Lindsay Lohan appeared in court today after reportedly failing an alcohol test, and was ordered by the judge to stop throwing parties at her house while she’s under house arrest, People magazine reported. Lohan used “extremely poor judgment” by hosting…
PBS is bringing the Loud family back to American television. The pioneering 1970s reality television program "An American Family" is returning in a two-hour version of the original 12-hour documentary series called "An American Family: Anniversary Edition." The groundbreaking series–sometimes…
The average price subscribers to multichannel video are paying for their TV privileges is up a sizable 3% from a year ago, according to a report by Multichannel News citing a survey by Leichtman Research Group. The average subscriber now…
Viacom Inc. sued Cablevision Systems Corp. today in Manhattan federal court to put a stop to what Viacom says is unauthorized streaming of the company’s programming on tablets such as the Apple iPad, reports Reuters. The suit was filed just…
Fox announced that it will present two-hour episodes on back-to-back nights to launch Simon Cowell’s new musical competition show "The X Factor," reports Deadline.com. ‘X Factor’ will premiere Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 21 and 22. Fox’s Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi series…
Competition shows “America’s Got Talent” and “The Voice” combined to give NBC a ratings win Wednesday night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. President Obama’s live speech early in prime time means the numbers will face significant adjustments. NBC finished the night with a…
A Texas man who was freed from Death Row last fall after it was proved that he had been wrongly convicted of murder is crediting a TV show with helping to achieve justice in his case. Anthony Graves, the subject…