Chuck Ross

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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.

Donald Sutherland, Eddie Izzard and Elijah Wood to Star in Cable Remake of the Classic Novel ‘Treasure Island’

The cable remakje of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel "Treasure Island" will star Donald Sutherland, Eddie Izzard and Elijah Wood, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Done for the Comcast-NBC Universal Syfy Channel, the production is shooting…

3D Bust: Toshiba Sells 50% Fewer 3D TV Sets Than It Had Projected–And These Are the 3D Sets That Don’t Require Any Glasses!

During its first month of sales, glasses-free 3-D television sets have failed to attract as many buyers as Toshiba had estimated, reports Bloomberg News. Toshiba started selling the sets in late December, and has sold just 500 of the 20-inch…

The Former KOCE-TV — Now PBS SoCal — Sees Ratings Improve After Taking on PBS Schedule

The former KOCE-TV, which became PBS SoCal after KCET-TV split from PBS over a dispute over dues, has seen its ratings more than double since it took on the full PBS schedule on Jan. 1, reports the Los Angeles Times’…

A True Rock Legend Will Perform Without His Band–Something He Rarely, Rarely Does–at Grammys

A rock legend has announced that he will join the lineup for this year’s Grammys, according to TVLine.com. The lineup already includes Eminem, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert, Muse, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Usher, among others. Add Rolling…

Attack on Anderson Cooper Propels CNN to Ratings Win

It’s a rough way to go about boosting a network’s ratings, but the attack in Cairo on Anderson Cooper and his CNN crew apparently had some positive fallout for the cable network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Following the attack,…

Prime-Time Casualty: NBC Pulls the Plug on Low-Rated Drama

NBC has seen enough of one of its low-rated dramas and has pulled the show from its midseason schedule, writes James Hibberd in Entertainment Weekly’s Inside TV blog. The show is “Chase,” which has been a low achiever in its…

MTV Bringing Back Controversial 1990s Cartoon Characters

MTV is making plans to expose a new generation of viewers to a pair of cartoon characters who last stirred things up on the network in the 1990s, CBS News reports. “Beavis And Butt-head” is scheduled to make a comeback,…

‘Idol,’ Fox Dominate Wednesday Ratings

"American Idol" was a runaway winner in the Nielsen ratings Wednesday night, powering Fox to an easy win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox finished the night with a 5.7 average in the 18-49 demo, more than double its nearest…

ABC Shuffles Tonight’s Lineup to Update Situation in Egypt, Air Amanpour Interview With Mubarak

ABC has announced changes to tonight’s lineup to provide an extended edition of “Nightline” covering the uprising in Egypt. “Nightline: Crisis in Egypt” will be televised at 11:35 p.m. and will include a report by Christiane Amanpour on her exclusive…

ABC News Crew Threatened With Beheading; Fox News Crew Beaten. Attacks on Media Escalate in Cairo

An ABC News crew was carjacked Thursday in Cairo by a group of angry men who threatened to behead them, as attacks against foreign reporters escalated in the strife-riddled Egyptian capital, ABC News reported. The team was later released. In…