Chuck Ross

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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.

Oprah Trying to Score Post-Jail Interview with Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is in discussions to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which begins its last season on Monday, reports RadarOnline.com. The talks between the two sides are going well and the outcome is looking good, the story says. A…

Syfy’s ‘Caprica’ to Come Back on Air Sooner Than Planned–Three Months Earlier

Syfy is returning "Caprica" to the airwaves about three months earlier than originally planned, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. "Caprica," which is a prequel to cult series "Battlestar Galactica," was originally supposed to air the second part of its first…

FX’s ‘Terriers’ Gets Slow Start on Wednesday’s Debut

While critics have praised FX’s new show "Terriers," the program got off to a slow start on Wednesday with just 1.6 million viewers, reports Joe Adalian at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Less than half of those viewers were in…

Report: NBC Universal Not Going Ahead With Movie to Wrap Up ‘Heroes’

NBC isn’t going forward with a movie that would wrap up the four-year-old television series "Heroes," according to EW.com’s The Hollywood Insider blog. After the show was canceled in May, there was speculation that creator Tim Kring would tie up…

Report: MGM to Enter Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy and Re-Emerge Primarily as a Cable TV Producer; Search on to Find a TV Topper

MGM–the studio with perhaps the most -storied name in Hollywood–is expected to enter a pre-packaged bankruptcy and re-emerge as a company that primaily produces TV shows for cable, Variety reports [Note: Variety is behind a firewall and may charge you…

Media Planning for the Holidays–Think Syndication This Christmas Season

Here’s a guest column by Mitch Burg, president of the Syndicated Network Television Association, with his pitch of why syndicated programming may be a smarter place for your money come December, when a number of networks show reruns. How I…

Survey: Public May Be Getting Tired of Reality TV

A new poll commissioned by TiVo provides indications that the public may be getting tired of reality TV, TheWrap reports. "Snooki and ‘Real Housewives’ fatigue may be setting in," the survey states, according to the story. The study examines which…

Entertainment Chief Lays Out Challenges Facing ‘Probably the Last Broadcast Network That Will Ever Be Built’–And Why Its Struggles Could Serve as a Blueprint for Network TV

On the eve of its fifth season and still unprofitable, her network "is probably the last broadcast network that will ever be built," Dawn Ostroff, entertainment president for the youth-focused network CW, tells the Los Angeles Times. "The marketplace is…

‘Hills’ Villain Spencer Pratt Offers Public Apology to Heidi

Spencer Pratt, best known for his bad boy role on the MTV reality show “The Hills,” has issued a long public apology to his wife, Heidi Montag, People magazine reports. In an interview with the magazine, Pratt addressed the woman…

TNT Moving Ahead With New Version of ‘Dallas’; Other Pilots Also Ordered

That big-screen version of "Dallas" may or may not come to fruition, but TNT has given the thumbs-up to a television pilot based on the CBS prime-time soap opera, according to TheWrap. Cynthia Cidre will exec produce the pilot for…