Logo

Author Page

Chuck Ross 38,865 Entries
Chuck Ross

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.

Mixing Elephants and Donkeys: Acclaimed Book About Dick Cheney Will Be HBO Miniseries Penned by ‘West Wing’ Writer

"West Wing" writer Rick Cleveland is adapting Barton Gellman’s best-selling biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," as a miniseries for HBO, reports Deadline.com. Paula Weinstein will executive produce the project, which will also incorporate…

NBC Unveils Summer Lineup Marked by Reality Shows, Seinfeld Series

NBC rolled out its summer 2011 schedule today, with the highlights including three new reality shows, the return of “America’s Got Talent” for season six and a second season of Jerry Seinfeld’s “The Marriage Ref,” Deadline.com reported. The new reality…

Kate Winslet Helps Fellow Actress Through Nude Scene

Evan Rachel Wood admitted in a recent interview with xfinityTV.com that she was nervous about doing a full-frontal nude scene for the HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce,” saying it almost caused her to back out of the project. “I was a…

Sunday Ratings: CBS’s NCAA Overrun Shakes Things Up

Overnight ratings for Sunday night were impacted by CBS’s coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament, which ran 19 minutes into the network’s prime-time schedule and offset the network’s programming for the rest of the night. But it appears that CBS…

CBS to Broadcast the 2011 Daytime Emmys

The Daytime Emmys will air on CBS this summer, reports Deadline.com. CBS picked up the awards ceremony telecast last year after the show’s producers spent some time hunting for a network outlet. The awards wound up on The CW in…

Women in Cable Telecommunications Announces 2011 Touchstone Partners–Comcast, Rainbow Media, Time Warner and Turner Top the List

Women in Cable Telecommunications has announced its 2011 Touchstone Partners, and at the top level the list is made up of WICT’s Strategic Touchstone Partners Comcast, Rainbow Media/WE tv, Time Warner Cable and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. The organization said…

NFL Filmmaker Steve Sabol Has Brain Tumor

One of the most familiar faces on the NFL Network, the president of NFL Films, Steve Sabol, is about to begin chemotherapy and radiation treatment for a brain tumor, reports NFL.com. Sabol, 68, had a seizure two weeks ago in…

Friendly $65,000 Loan Lands MSNBC Anchor in Court

Alex Witt, one of MSNBC’s weekend anchors, is being sued by a friend who claims Witt has failed to repay a $65,000 loan, reports the New York Post. Stephanie Jones, now Witt’s former best friend, claimed in court documents filed…

ESPN NBA Analyst Tries to Clear the Air After ‘Uncle Tom’ Comment Sparks Anger

After a war of words over race in sports broke out in the wake of ESPN’s airing of the documentary “The Fab Five,” ESPN NBA analyst Jalen Rose is attempting to clarify comments he made in the film and apparently…

What’s Behind AT&T’s $39 Billion Purchase of T-Mobile? It May Be All About iPhone 4G

AT&T’s game-changing $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile, creating the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., may be all about plans for the iPhone 4G in 2012, according to the Fast Company website. The deal combining the country’s second-largest and…