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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.
"Two and a Half Men" co-creator Chuck Lorre has hired Hollywood litigator Howard Weitzman and a team from Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert to handle the Charlie Sheen imbroglio, reports The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. blog. Weitzman was hired…
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN, the new cable channel that debuted in January, is planning on reshuffling its schedule and investing millions in advertising to woo viewers, reports the New York Post. The reason why is because the network hasn’t been able…
MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough tells the New York Post’s Page Six that he and his co-host Mika Brzezinski are not considering moving to another network, despite rumors that they were looking for a syndication deal and that CBS…
Warner Bros. has become the first movie studio to launch a test program allowing users to rent and watch movies on Facebook, according to Time magazine’s Techland. Both Time magazine and Warner Bros. are owned by Time Warner. The article…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Chabon and his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman, are working on a drama series for HBO about a group of magicians and con men who battle Hitler during World War II, reports EW.com’s InsideTV blog. Called…
A video producer has been purchased by Google’s YouTube for an undisclosed sum, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The video producer is Next New Networks, whose videos on Websites such as Hungry Nation have drawn more than 2…
PETA is trying to pigeonhole former boxer Mike Tyson as one of the bad guys, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. Tyson’s new Animal Planet television series featuring his foray into competitive pigeon racing has become the target of…
Fox News Channel expects "significant" carriage fee increases as it renews deals with distributors this year, according to News Corp. chief operating officer Chase Carey, who spoke at an investor conference on Monday, reports Multichannel News. Carey declined to say…
NBC has now got a date set for the return to TV of the overhauled "Law & Order: Los Angeles," reports TVLine.com. The show will return with a two-hour episode on April 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the story says. The article notes that…
"[A] a decision by publisher HarperCollins to limit the circulation of library e-books is rousing librarians, who have started a boycott via blogs and Twitter protesting what some consider the digital "destruction" of books," writes Bob Minzesheimer of USA Today….