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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.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation handed out its media awards on Saturday, giving out top marks to HBO’s "True Blood" and NBC’s "30 Rock," reports TVGuide.com. "True Blood" won for outstanding drama series, with the show portraying many…
An FBI investigation into a hacking case targeting celebrities appears to be spreading, TMZ reported. The case initially focused on hackers obtaining nude photographs of female celebrities such as Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba and Christina Aguilera, but it…
NBC has released a revealing photo of the new Wonder Woman, who will be played by Adrianne Palicki in the upcoming reboot of the show, Entertainment Weekly reports. The superheroine’s outfit is updated quite a bit from the one Lynda…
In programming other than CBS’s NCAA Basketball Tournament coverage–where the regional nature of the live event makes it impossible to compare overnight ratings–Fox was the runaway winner Thursday night, even as “American Idol” continued to fall short of its numbers…
The first full day of action in the “March Madness” NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship pulled in strong ratings for its CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV telecasts, the outlets reported. The Thursday telecasts combined for an average household rating…
The Academy Awards people got some good news as they scramble to overcome sagging ratings and harsh reviews for the latest Oscars telecast, the AP reported. The news comes from one of the most universally acclaimed Oscar hosts of years…
NBC has decided not to bring back one of its familiar summer reality series, reports the Futon Critic, and it’s not the first time the show has been shelved. The series is "Last Comic Standing," which twice before has been…
"Cinema Verite," a TV movie based on the 1973 PBS documentary series "An American Family," will premiere on HBO April 23, TVWeek has learned, and the network has put together a strong cast for the project. The HBO film stars…
Mike Fleiss, the creator of "The Bachelor" franchise, was asked point blank by a reporter recently, "Will we ever see a bachelor or a bachelorette who is not white?" The question was posed by Lynette Rice of EW.com’s Inside TV…
TVWeek Open Mic Blogger Chuck Ross talks about the evolution of wrestling on TV, from the fun local shows in the 1950s and early 1960s that were immensely popular, to Vince McMahon and the WWE and what Ross found out, surprisingly, the WWE…