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.

Waaaaaahhhh! Heirs Battle Over Lucille Ball’s Estate

Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, the actress/singer daughter of TV icons Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, will go to court later this week to stop the auction of part of her mother’s estate orchestrated by the Heritage Auction Galleries for Susie Morton,…

Full List of Nominations for the 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Awards

31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards The Nominations OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABCTragedy at Fort HoodExecutive ProducerJon BannerSenior Broadcast ProducerTom NagorskiSenior ProducersKate Felsen, Tom Johnson,…

Sci Fi Wire Being Renamed by Syfy Network

The Syfy network has renamed the Sci Fi Wire, the net’s popular blog, in Syfy’s latest rebranding effort, reports TVNewser. Instead of being called Sci Fi Wire, the blog has been renamed blastr.com. The new name, which launched yesterday, July 14, 2010,…

Updated Numbers Show MLB All-Star Game Viewing Even Lower

The Nielsen ratings for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Fox were even worse than first reported, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. The game was reported previously to have been off by 15% from last year. That number has now risen to…

Steven Seagal Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Dismissed

According to court papers from Los Angeles, a $1 million sexual harrassment suit brought against TV and film star Steven Seagal has been dismissed, reports the AP. Kayden Nguyen claimed that the star of "Steven Seagal: Lawman" had kept her…

PBS Edits Out Paul McCartney’s Dig at Bush

When Paul McCartney’s White House concert performance airs on PBS, his dig at former President George W. Bush–he told the group that with Obama, “It’s great to have a president who knows what a library is”–will be edited out, according…

Reality Shows Shine Brightly for Broadcast Nets

On a relatively slow night in the Nielsen ratings, Wednesday’s airings of CBS’s "Big Brother," Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance" and NBC’s "America’s Got Talent" were the shining stars for the networks, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m….

Video: J.R. Ewing, The Oil Man’s Oil Man, Makes a New Commercial….for Solar Power; Plus, in a Second Video, It Turns Out J.R.–Actor Larry Hagman–Has One of the Largest Residential Solar Farms in the World (Who Knew?)

‘Chuck’ Signs Big Guest Stars

When NBC’s "Chuck" premieres this fall, the first big guest star will be former "Rocky IV" villain Dolph Lundgren, reports Entertainment Weekly. Speculation is that the Swedish actor will be playing a villain, someone Chuck will need to use his…

Wild Episode of ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Scores Big in Monday Airing

Previewing the parking lot, hair-pulling, screaming, call-the-cops blowout between Danielle Staub and Teresa Giudice on Bravo’s "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" was just the ticket to propel the show to its highest Monday ratings in history among all key…