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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.
After Keith Olbermann left MSNBC and was replaced by "Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word," the network’s ratings are down about 10% from the same time a year earlier, reports the Hollywood Reporter. O’Donnell’s ratings are down 22% from Olbermann’s ratings in…
Days after Larry King complained on London’s Radio 4 that Piers Morgan, who replaced King on CNN, might have been "oversold" and is "not that dangerous," King will appear on "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Wednesday, reports the New York Post…
TNT’s 2011 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night pulled in the biggest audience since 2003, with 9.1 million total viewers tuning in and earning a 5.2 household rating,reports B&C. The game, in which the West beat the East by 148-143,…
The showrunner of "Criminal Mind," is leaving the crime drama and is near signing an overall deal with Sony Pictures TV, reports Deadline.com. The showrunner, Simon Mirren, had wanted to pursue his own development, and after ABC Studios wasn’t interested, Sony made an…
Animal Planet has greenlit two summer series, both revolving around the theme of fish. According to an announcement, "’Hillbilly Handfishin’ premieres in August and introduces the wild sport of noodling, where adventure-thirsty city slickers head to Oklahoma to submerge themselves…
Larry Ellison’s son David has had a successful film venture when his Skydance Productions co-financed Coen brother’s hit "True Grit," but Ellison doesn’t plan to stop there, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times by Claudia Eller and Ben Fritz. David…
Ashley Judd is close to starring in an upcoming series on ABC, according to a number of media reports. According to the account in Deadline.com, "The project, from feature writer Greg Poirier, was once slated for summer but now eyes…
We’ve published a few stories this morning, but we’re actually closed today. We’ll return to our regular schedule tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Enjoy the holiday if you have it off!
The ten clock nightly hour on TV used to be owned by the broadcast networks. No more, writes Bill Carter in the New York Times. "For most weeks this winter, about six million viewers 18 to 49 (the prime age…
One of Rupert Murdoch’s sons is the subject of a long proflle in yesterday’s Feb. 21, 2011, Sunday New York Times. The piece, by Tim Arango, is about James Murdoch, 38. With Rupert now 80-years-old, the article says, "James Murdoch is…