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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.
The third spinoff from E!’s “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” has been rumored since summer, and it apparently is going to happen, Us Magazine reports. The show will feature Khloe Kardashian and her husband, L.A. Laker Lamar Odom, in a…
One of the most ambitious new shows on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network will be a series called "Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star," and today the 10 candidates were revealed, the AP reports. Among the contestants…
On another night of mostly repeat programming, ABC parlayed a decent showing by back-to-back reruns of “Modern Family” into a modest overall win in the key demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. ABC finished the night with a 1.7 average rating in adults…
The show will apparently go on for “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, who wants to drop out of a ball on New Year’s Eve, Entertainment Weekly reports. Snooki wanted the bit featured at New York’s Times Square celebration, but…
Television viewers tune in faithfully year after year to watch holiday classics such as the stop-action "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the animated "A Charlie Brown Christmas," but neither of those was this year’s most-watched Christmas special, according to The…
ESPN has suspended anchor Will Selva, reports NBA.fanhouse.com, after he was accused of plagiarizing material from Orange County Register sports columnist Kevin Ding, as we reported Wednesday. Selva, who has been anchoring "Highlight Express" on ESPNEWS, apologized Wednesday for using…
After six weeks on the air, "Conan" is tied as late-night television’s youngest talk show, reports EW.com’s InsideTV blog. The TBS show has a median age of 33, tying it with another TBS late-night program, "Lopez Tonight," the story notes….
If you have kids younger than 6 years old, Nintendo doesn’t want you buying its latest 3D handheld device, reports Bloomberg News. "Looking at 3D images for a long time may harm the growth of children’s eyes," Nintendo said in…
The star of an MTV reality show who was jailed in a recent domestic violence incident didn’t stage her violent acts for the sake of the television show, according to paperwork filed by prosecutors and cited by RadarOnline.com. Amber Portwood,…
More than 9,000 fans of the late Michael Jackson have signed an online petition asking Discovery Communications not to air a television special that re-enacts his autopsy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jackson’s estate has also sent an angry letter…