Chuck Ross

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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.

No More Moping Over Ice Cream: Rewrites Make Wonder Woman More of a Butt Kicker

After criticisms of David E. Kelley’s pilot script for "Wonder Woman" pointed out that the superhero was mopey, the script has been rewritten to make her tougher, reports sci-fi blog io9.com. The analysis is based on revised pages released in…

MLB Seizes Control of Troubled L.A. Dodgers Franchise

With the Los Angeles Dodgers plagued by financial problems and caught in the team owner’s divorce dispute, baseball Commissioner Bud Selig dropped a bombshell Wednesday, stepping in and transferring control of the franchise to Major League Baseball, the AP reports….

Guest Blog: Vast Wasteland My Ass–Why Newton Minow Wasn’t The Programming Shark He Thought He Was When He Coined That Famous Phrase

[Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog by our friend Norman Horowitz. Norman started in the TV business in 1956, when he was 24. He has been President of Worldwide Distribution for Columbia Pictures TV (Screen Gems); President of Polygram…

Would You Eat in a Restaurant Run by Recycled Reality Stars? New VH1 Show Trots Out ‘Celebs’ From ‘Real Housewives,’ ‘The Bachelor’ and … ‘The Sopranos’?!

VH1 has greenlighted an unscripted show bringing together reality show stars and other celebrities as they start a restaurant, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Among those on board are “The Hills” star Heidi Montag and Danielle Staub of "Real…

‘NCIS’ Producers Sign Three-Year Deals

CBS Television Studios has signed the showrunner and producers behind "NCIS" and "NCIS: Los Angeles" to three-year overall deals, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Shane Brennan, an executive producer and showrunner on both shows, and Gary Glasberg, an executive producer…

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel to Be Developed as Series by HBO

Fresh off winning the Pulitzer Prize, a novel from a Brooklyn writer is now set to become an HBO series. Jennifer Egan’s "A Visit From the Goon Squad," which won the Pulitzer this week, has a deal to be developed…

DishOnline Adds 1,800 Titles–Including ‘Sopranos,’ ‘Entourage’ and Other Programming HBO Is Keeping Off Netflix

Content from HBO and Cinemax that’s not available on Netflix’s online service will be included on DishOnline, a year-old service that provides online access to TV shows and movies to DIsh customers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. DishOnline will show…

Oscar-Nominated Photojournalist Killed in Libya

A documentary filmmaker and photojournalist who co-directed the Oscar-nominated 2010 Afghanistan film “Restrepo” was killed Wednesday in an attack by Libyan forces on Misurata, The New York Times reported. Tim Hetherington was killed and three other photographers were injured in…

Researchers Say Apple Is Tracking Locations of Mobile Device Users

A team of researchers says Apple is secretly obtaining the locations of iOS4 users and recording them in a hidden file, according to a betanews.com report. Two of the researchers, Alasdair Allan and Peter Warden of O’Reilly Media, presented their…

Soap Opera Protest Could Pay Dividends for Vacuum Firm

Vacuum manufacturer Hoover Corp. won the hearts of soap opera fans this week after it announced that it was pulling its ads off ABC to protest the cancellation of soaps “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” according to…