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Chuck Ross

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.

‘Dancing’ Tops Tuesday Ratings Amid Reruns and Election Results

Tuesday night was an easy win in the ratings for ABC’s "Dancing With the Stars" results show amid mostly reruns and election coverage, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m. "Dancing" was ahead of NBC’s "The Biggest Loser," with an average…

Huh? NBC–Yes NBC(!)–Argues to Madison Ave. That 55 to 64 is the New 18 to 34

NBC will begin a new pitch to advertisers, media agencies and Nielsen officials on Thursday, and it goes something like this: the 55 to 64 year-old demographic is the new 18 to 34 year-old segment, reports our friend John Consoli…

No Bull: NBA Star No Show For His Cameo Appearance on Series

An NBA player who was all set to make a cameo appearance on a prime-time TV series was a no show, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. CBS’s "The Good Wife," which is set in Chicago although filmed in…

The Election Landslide. Could Obama Not See It Coming? Could He Not Have Cared?

With yesterday’s mid-term election landslide for the Republicans, one wonders what Obama and the Democrats were thinking. Or maybe they weren’t. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross has seen this kind of behavior before in other industries, including in the…

Oh, the Advantages of 500 Million Users: Facebook Knows When Your Relationship With Your Significant Other Will Breakup

Facebook knows when you’ll be dumped, CNN reports. According to the story, a British journalist studied "10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases ‘breakup’ and ‘broken up.’They found two big spikes on the calendar for breakups. The first was after…

MTV Tells GLAAD It’s Sorry for Scene in ‘Jersey Shore,’ Vows to Cut Scene if Episode is Rebroadcast

MTV has apologized to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for a "Jersey Shore" scene involving Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino calling another club-goer "a tranny," reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. The alliance considers the term a slur…

Is It Harder to Get Celebrities to Ice Skate Than to Dance? If the Names of the Celebs Chosen to Be on ‘Skating With the Stars’ Are Any Indication, the Answer Is Yes

Judging frrom what Deadline.com is calling a "less buzzworthy cast," it is indeed harder to find celebs who will "Skate With the Stars" than go "Dancing With the Stars." The motley crew that will participate in the "Danciing" spinoff on…

Bill Maher Says That Joint Smoked by Zach Galifianakis on ‘Real Time’ Wasn’t Actually Real

Bill Maher said during a CNN interview that the joint smoked by Zach Galifianakis on "Real Time" on Friday wasn’t actually pot, reports AOL’s popEater.com. To see actual footage of what happened, please click here. ""If it was a real…

New Show From ‘Sex and the City’ Showrunner–Sorta Sounds Like a Sequel to ‘Shampoo’

"Sex and the City" producer and writer Michael Patrick King’s potential new show appears to center on a straight owner of a high-end hair salon who goes through a midlife crisis,reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. One…

The CW’s ‘Life Unexpected’ Will Likely Have a Short Life as Network Decides Against Back Order

The CW drama "LIfe Unexpected" will likely have a short and final season after the network decided against ordering any episodes beyond the program’s original 13-episode order, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Although the show has been critically praised, it’s…