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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 three-time Emmy winner is returning to television to host a TLC show about children that’s called a modern version of the old Art Linkletter show "Kids Say the Darndest Things," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Brad Garrett, best known…
Katie Couric may return to her old stomping ground on the "Today" show when her "CBS Evening News" contract expires in May, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. The article adds the spot is expected to open up because…
The Los Angeles Times‘ Joe Flint takes a look at whether another show is in trouble or whether its ratings are an example of how viewers are changing the way they watch programs. The program is NBC’s “Parenthood,” whose audience…
A familiar face to prime-time cable news viewers is launching a daytime syndicated talk show, reports James Hibberd at The Hollywood Reporter’s TheLiveFeed blog. Anderson Cooper, the host of CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360," reportedly has closed a deal with Telepictures…
"Tony Curtis, the Bronx tailor’s son who became a 1950s movie heartthrob and then a respected actor with such films as ‘Sweet Smell of Success,’ ‘The Defiant Ones’ and ‘Some Like It Hot,’ has died," reports the Associated Press and…
TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross explains the importance of Arthur Penn’s TV roots. Penn, the director of the popular, undeniably influential movie "Bonnie and Clyde," died this week. Ross connects the TV (and Broadway) dots of Penn’s life, and…
"Pushing Daisies" creator Bryan Fuller is working on a project for NBC that may get fans of classic television shows excited, reports EW.com’s The Ausiello Files. NBC has ordered a pilot of the project, a remake of "The Munsters," which…
In what could be a groundbreaking change the decades-old system of how networks and affiliates share advertising revenue, ABC is implementing a new program that will allow the network to exchange inventory with its 200 affiliates throughout the year, reports…
A comedy pilot from actor and comedian Jack Black has been picked up by NBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is based on A.J. Jacobs’ nonfiction book ""The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment,” and was…
"Last Comic Standing" judge Greg Giraldo has died at age 44, five days after he was hospitalized for overdosing on prescription pills, reports TMZ.com. Giraldo passed away in a New Brunswick, New Jersey, hospital with his family by his side,…