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.

Like Most Photos You Take–that now get ‘looked at less than once simply because there is almost zero cost and effort to producing one’–There Are Too Many Good TV Shows To Watch Them All, Says N.Y. Times Columnist

Have we come to the point that there is just too much good TV available that we can’t watch it all? Media columnist David Carr of the New York Times thinks we may have. In this week’s column, published Monday, he writes,…

Danielle Staub of ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Will Be Leaving Program

Bravo said that Danielle Staub of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" won’t be coming back to the program, reports the Associated Press. Staub appeared on Monday’s reunion program, in which she seemed to make amends following a second season…

An Offer Paramount Couldn’t Refuse: Basic Cable Network Licenses ‘The Godfather’ Movies For Unprecedented Nine Years

A basic cable network has made Paramount Pictures an offer it couldn’t refuse, reports the New York Post. The studio has agreed to a deal with cable channel AMC that gives it rights to be the only place to watch…

Video: Washington Post Sportswriter Deliberately Twitters a False Story

Washington Post sportswriter Mike Wise was suspended for deliberately twittering a false story last week, according to Cnet. According to the article, Wise "was suspended last week for taking his company’s reputation too lightly when he intentionally used Twitter to…

Report: Network Morning Show Heavily Courting Lindsay Lohan for Her First Post-Jail Interview

On morning network show in particular is heavily courting Lindsay Lohan to score the first post-jail interview with the troubled star, reports TMZ.com. The program is NBC’s "Today" show, the report says. Lohan is strong leaning toward doing the "Today" show, according…

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, Negotiating with Oprah Winfrey To Put a Series on OWN

Sarah Ferguson is negotiating with Oprah Winfrey to create a six-part series for Winfrey’s new cable network about reports the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper. The series would be about how the Duchess of York was abandoned as a teenager by her…

Ken Jenkins, a.k.a. Dr. Kelso from ‘Scrubs’, to Join ‘Cougar Town’ in Fatherly Role

Ken Jenkins, who played Dr. Kelso in "Scrubs," is joining ABC’s "Cougar Town" as the father of Courteney Cox’s character, Jules, reports EW.com’s The Ausiello Files. He’ll appear in the show’s fall episodes, the story says. The addition comes as…

Will Simon Cowell’s British Shows Get Neglected in Favor of U.S. Version of ‘X Factor’?

The U.K. television programs "The X Factor" and "Britain’s Got Talent" are facing an uncertain future, as host Simon Cowell hasn’t yet signed a contract because he wants to focus on the American version of "The X Factor," reports the…

Hard Luck Comic Robert Schimmel, 60, Dies of Injuries From Auto Accident

Comic Robert Schimmel, 60, has died of injuries sustained in an auto accident in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he lived. In an appreciation of the comic, who was a favorite of "The Howard Stern Show," Jim Bessman of examiner.com. wrote, "With…

A Year After Dissing Taylor Swift at the VMA’s, Kanye West Delivers 100 Soul-Searching Tweets in Two Hours, Culminating With ‘I’m Sorry Taylor’

The main headline on the home pageof TMZ for a time today read, "Kanye Goes on Twitter Rampage, Seeks Forgiveness." Said the TMZ report: "Kanye posted nearly 100 tweets in a little over two hours. It started innocently enough with:…