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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.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl tells the Hollywood Reporter that after watching 10 minutes of "Glee", it’s "not my thing," adding "not everyone loves ‘Glee.’ Me included." Grohl took a potshot at "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy, noting, "“And then the…
The son in CBS’ "How I Met Your Mother" is joining CBS’ comedy pilot "Assistants," reports Deadline.com. David Henrie will play Mike in the pilot, who arrives in Hollywood from Pennsylvania and hopes his job as a celebrity assistant will…
Guggenheim Partners and Jimmy Finkelstein’s Pluribus Capital Management want to sell the company that publishes The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek and BackStage, reports our good friend Claire Atkinson at The New York Post. According to the article, "The…
Charlie Sheen has again expanded his "Violent Torpedo" tour, adding 12 more cities including two Canadian performances, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The new locations and show dates are listed below. Sheen’s one-man show has sold out twice in Radio City Music…
Donald Sutherland has signed on for NBC’s comedy pilot "My Life as an Experiment," reports Deadline.com. The story notes that Sutherland will play the father of Stacie, the wife of a journalist who decides to make his life an experiment….
As viewers continue to seek out news about the disaster in Japan, CNN notched a rare prime-time ratings victory over Fox News on Wednesday night, reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. CNN’s lineup averaged 679,000 viewers between the ages of…
Some viewers are having trouble finding March Madness games on their local television stations, the result of the landmark $10.8 billion joint deal between CBS, TruTV, TNT and TBS, reports B&C. The deal has "fallen like an off-balance, ill-advised three-point…
"Roast of Donald Trump" on Comedy Central drew 3.5 million total viewers, while breaking a record with men between the ages of 18 to 24, reports Multichannel News. The story notes that the broadcast became the highest-rated Comedy Central roast…
"120 Minutes," the show that ran on MTV from 1986 to 2000 and highlighted alternative bands, is set to return, reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. Once again the show will be on MTV, and the host will be Matt Pinfield, who worked…
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to cut off Federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR), Bloomberg reports. . The move comes after NPR’s chief executive stepped down after a video surfaced that purported showing another NPR executive criticizing…