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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.
A day after cutting about half of MySpace’s workforce, News Corp. is considering a spinoff, a sale or a merger of the social-networking Website, reports Bloomberg. Mike Jones, the chief executive of the Internet unit, told employees about the plans…
Comedy Central’s "Tosh.0" scored a record on Tuesday night, drawing its biggest audience ever for the show with 3.6 million viewers, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. That means that the audience has more than doubled since its summer premiere, the…
A multicamera comedy pilot, has been has been picked up by Fox, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" is the comedy and it comes from Warner Bros. TV. The show tracks two women whose daughters act…
CBS’ "The Good Wife" has cast America Ferrera of "Ugly Betty" in a three-episode arc that begins in February, reports TVLine.com. It will mark Emmy-winner Ferrera’s first television job since "Ugly Betty" went off the air last year, the story…
The syndicated show "Extra," is "turning into a TV incubator," writes the New York Post. That refers to its testing of Latina version of "The View," the article says. "Extra" quietly tested "Chit Chat" as a half-hour special on Christmas day,…
Arbitron wants to expand its out-of-home TV measurement to viewers that watch syndicated afternoon talk shows from their workplace, writes our friend David Goetzl at MediaDailyNews. Says the article, " ‘We need to stop simply piloting stuff, and find those…
A prolific member of Fox’s sketch comedy show "In Living Color" is bringing that kind of variety program back to television, reports Access Hollywood. Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is working with comedian and writer Affion Crockett to put a project…
The CBS hit “The Big Bang Theory” was picked up by the network for another three years, keeping it on the air through the 2013-14 season, The New York Times reported. The renewal was announced jointly today by CBS and…
The homeless man whose golden voice made him an Internet sensation and recently landed him some broadcasting work revealed on “Dr. Phil” that he has fallen off the wagon, Entertainment Weekly reports. Ted Williams told Dr. Phil McGraw that he…
A sitcom that last aired on broadcast and drew only 1.8 million viewers during the 2008-09 season premiered Tuesday night to a staggering audience of 7.7 million on cable channel BET, Entertainment Weekly reported. The show is the former CW…