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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.
For 70 years, one comic strip reporter has been consistently on the story–and now that run is coming to an end. Tribune Media Services, which owns the strip, announced Thursday that ace reporter Brenda Starr will be retiring, The Huffington…
In the spirit of AMC’s "Mad Men," NBC is developing a one-hour drama set in the early 1960s about the life of women working in the Playboy Club, reports Entertainment Weekly. "Playboy" will be set in New York and reflect…
A reality show star who has been in the headlines more for her criminal activities than her television credits has added another line to her list of legal problems, The Huffington Post reports. Alexis Neiers, 19, one of the stars…
The tight season-long battle continues for the top spot in the always closely watched Thursday night Nielsens, with CBS, ABC and NBC finishing the night closely bunched in the 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. CBS, led by “Big Bang Theory,” came…
Costco, the giant discount retailer, said it’s getting rid of Apple products such as iPods and pre-loaded iTunes cards because the technology company never allowed Costco to sell its products online or at large discounts, according to the Seattle Times….
The NBC series inspired by "Sex and the City" has seen its first season order cut to nine episodes from 13,reports The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. The show is "Love Bites." The anthology series had already been pushed from…
"The Hoff" is off the air, after A&E pulled the reality series "The Hasselhoffs" after just two episodes, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The show debuted Sunday with 718,000 viewers, although that audience dropped sharply for its second half-hour episode, which…
Even though Oprah Winfrey usually turns everything she touches into gold, some pay-television carriers are resisting demands for higher fees for her new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), which debuts Jan. 1, reports Ronald Grover and Andy Fixmer at Bloomberg BusinessWeek….
It’s a milestone worth celebrating: for 15 years in a row, one morning show had been No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings. NBC’s "Today" show will celebrate Saturday as marking 15 uninterrupted years as the country’s top-rated morning broadcast, reports…
Marking his first U.S. series role, British actor Sir Michael Gambon — perhaps best known to U.S. audiences as Albus Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter" films — has signed on with the new HBO drama "Luck," reports Deadline.com In "Luck," which…