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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.
One of the stars of ABC’s "Desperate Housewives" is being sued, along with ABC Studios, ISBE Productions and The Walt Disney Co., reports TheWrap. Jennifer Glassman, a former executive with Teri Hatcher’s ISBE Productions, accuses Hatcher in court documents of…
After appearing on NBC’s spy series "Chuck" for three years as a recurring character, Gen. Beckman has new marching orders, reports Entertainment Weekly. The character, played by Bonita Friedericy, has been promoted to full time, according to the story. As Gen….
Mika Brezinski, co-host of MSBNC’s "Morning Joe," has revealed in a Ladies Home Journal story that her 12-year-old daughter Carlie used Mika’s Twitter account to try to snag a meeting with teen singing sensation Justin Bieber, reports TVNewser. Without mom’s…
Everyone remembers that at MTV’s Video Muslc Awards broadcast last year, singer Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech to claim that Beyonce deserved the prize. But apparently all is forgiven because Kanye has been asked back to perform at…
Going into the show’s second season, Bill Lawrence–the creator of ABC’s "Cougar Town"–is assuring fans that stars from his former hit "Scrubs" will make guest appearances on the Courteney Cox sitcom, reports E! Online. Lawrence declared that Sarah Chalke, Donald…
Fox’s "Hell’s Kitchen" had a potent season finale Tuesday night in the Nielsen ratings, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m. the one-hour Gordon Ramsay series logged a 3.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic, the top performance of the night, while…
Not only is it once in a lifetime, it IS a lifetime. One of the most famous local newsmen in TV, who started his on-air career in 1947, at the dawn of the TV era, is retiring at age 87,…
The story this week of the JetBlue flight attendant who flamboyantly left his job by activating a plane’s evacuation slide after an altercation with an unruly passenger has caught the public’s imagination, but JetBlue has had a hard time talking about it. "At…
For years the word has been that the vast majority of the "Tonight Show" hosted by Johnny Carson had been destroyed. It turns out that while that is true about the episodes Carson hosted for the first ten years of the "Tonight…