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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.
ABC has set the season finale dates for its prime-time programming, with two series receiving super-sized endings to their seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Desperate Housewives" will have a two-hour finale and "Cougar Town" will be expanded to one…
With plans for "Terra Nova" and "The X Factor" to appear on its fall schedule, Fox may only be able to renew three dramas from this season, and those would be "House," "Glee" and "Bones," writes Bill Gorman at TVbytheNumbers.com….
Singer Chris Brown got visibly upset when he appeared on ABC’s "Good Morning America" to promote a new album and was asked by Robin Roberts about his ex-girlfriend Rihanna, whom Brown was accused of beating, reports the Los Angeles Times’…
MTV’s "Skins" drew 1.2 million viewers for its finale, up slightly from the previous week, but the future of the show is up in the air, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. MTV said Tuesday it hasn’t decided whether to renew the…
An Emmy Award-winning veteran of NBC’s "Law & Order" has been cast in an untitled CBS supernatural medical drama pilot from Susannah Grant, reports Deadline.com. The “L&O” star is S. Epatha Merkerson, who won an Emmy in 2005 for “Lackawanna…
IFC announced at its upfront presentation Tuesday that "The Onion News Network" has received a second-season order from the network, reports TVNewser.com. The second season will debut in October. The cable network ordered 16 half-hour episodes of the series, which…
TNT has passed on two pilots after picking up drama pilot "Perception" to series, reports Deadline.com. The two rejected pilots are "Bird Dog," about a father-daughter police team, and an untitled project from Allan Loeb based on Marshall Karp’s novel…
The events in Japan and Libya have helped boost CNN’s ratings and its standing among the cable news networks, which comes at the expense of MSNBC, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times. MSNBC is now in third place…
NBC is giving up on one of its shows and pulling the plug, yanking the show from its Thursday night lineup in favor of a new project from former “Mad About You” star Paul Reiser, Entertainment Weekly reports in its…
Three new unscripted shows are being picked up by Syfy, including a show about people living through paranormal experiences and another featuring "Da Vinci Code"-type sleuthing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Paranormal Witness" blends first-hand testimony and drama and will…