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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.
ABC execs have had a busy day, including greenlighting six drama pilots that will involve some of the heavy hitters of TV drama, Deadline.com reports. Among the shows the network is taking on, the story reports, are “Marc Cherry’s ‘Hallelujah,’…
Stephen A Smith is returning to ESPN, but only on radio and online. Regarding what he will do on the radio and online , ESPN said in an announcement, "Smith will host a pair of two-hour, weekday local radio shows…
Though Regis Philbin has made it clear he’s not retiring when he leaves his daytime show later rthis year, he will get a salute as one of the true icons of TV. Philbin, along wtih Mel Brooks, Don Rickles, Garry…
An actor who has starred in some of the best-loved Hollywood movies of the past 40 years–and who won an Oscar for the 1977 movie “The Goodbye Girl”–will tackle something a little less ambitious when he appears in a four-episode…
The professional dancing partner of Jennifer Grey–who won the last go-around of "Dancing with the Stars," won’t be on the show next season, reports TVLine.com According to the report, Derek Hough decided to sit out the show’s 12th season to…
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It’s almost as good–if not better–than the description the legendary NBC programmer Brandon Tartikoff reportedly once gave for ‘Miami Vice": MTV cops. This one is ‘Cops’ Meets ‘Jeopardy.’ The real name of the show is "Repo Games," and it’s been ordered…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is calling on "Saturday Night Live" to apologize for spoof commercial that advertised an estrogen drug for male-to-female transgender people, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The spoof–seen below–stars Bill Hader advertising…
Rainn WIlson, who plays Dwight on "The Office," tells Lynette Rice of EW.com’s Inside TV how the show landed Will Ferrell. And, no people, Wilson says, don’t expect Ferrell to replace the departing Steve Carell. According to the article. " ‘Will…
To help cope with the absence of Charlie Sheen from "Two and a Half Men," CBS has ordered two additional episodes of "Mike and Molly" and "Rules of Engagement," reports the Hollywood Reporter. The extra episodes of the Monday shows…