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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.
Rapper Kanye West’s beef with NBC’s “Today” show and interviewer Matt Lauer continued to produce fallout today, with the latest development being West’s cancellation of a scheduled Nov. 26 singing performance on Today,” Entertainment Weekly reports. To see video of the…
Newsweek Magazine is launching a joint venture with Barry Diller’s news website Daily Beast, with the combined entity to be called Newsweek Daily Beast Co., Bloomberg reports. The venture will be co-owned by Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp and Newsweek owner Sidney Harman….
A team of researchers has determined how cats are able to drink water and, unlike dogs, keep their chins and whiskers dry, The Washington Post reports. The scientists discovered that cats manage to apply the laws of physics, carefully balancing…
One of the hosts of “The View” has lined up a role on a “Hot” cable show, TV Guide reports. The show is TV Land’s “Hot in Cleveland,” where “The View’s” Sherri Shepherd will play the judge who will determine…
The Nathan Fillion detective show “Castle” has been doing well enough against CBS’s “Hawaii Five-0” that ABC wants to keep it going, according to The Hollywood Reporter. ABC has ordered two more episodes of the show, bringing its total for…
News that Fox has renewed “The Simpsons” for a 23rd season means that the animated hit will surpass the 500-episode mark during 2011-12 and is scheduled to finish that season with 515 episodes, New York Magazine reports. Only two shows…
Disney Channel announced today that it has ordered a live-action comedy series with the working title "A.N.T. Farm." The show will begin production in early 2011, according to the announcement from Gary Marsh, president of entertainment and chief creative officer…
In a week in which Keith Olbermann has been the center of attention for political donations and his subsequent suspension by MSNBC, the cable personality now has his sights set on a new target: the host of a popular syndicated…
Prolific film producer Dino De Laurentiis died of natural causes Wednesday night at the age of 91, the Los Angeles Times reports. Among the hundreds of films he produced since World War II were “Dune,” “Flash Gordon,” “Conan the Barbarian,”…
AMC, the erstwhile all-movie channel that’s had great success with original series over the past few years, has finally cancelled one, James Hibberd at The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog reports. Writes Hibberd, "AMC has cancelled a drama series —…