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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.
Eli Manning will soon have a new teammate: SpongeBob Squarepants. Manning and a number of other of his National Football League colleagues–both players and coaches–are going to lend their voice talents to a new series on Nicktoons, both the cable…
Producers of the spinoff of CBS’ "Criminal Minds" are in negotiations to add Janeane Garofalo as a new regular for the ABC Studios- and CBS Studios-produced show, reports Deadline.com. Garofalo would star opposite Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, the story says. In other…
Bloomberg LP has requested government regulators place conditions on the merger of Comcast with NBC Universal such as requiring Comcast to program Bloomberg TV next to NBCU’s CNBC on the cable channel line-up, Bloomberg BusinessWeek is reporting. If conditions such…
Fortysomething Rob Lowe, who’s been in show biz for four decades now, has two projects on his plate: a new reality series and the writing of his memoirs. The reality show is called "Potomac Fever," he told Variety, Mediabistro reports….
"With pressure for video replay mounting after two blatant missed calls at the World Cup, FIFA president Sepp Blatter says soccer’s governing body will reopen the issue after the tournament," says an Associated Press story. FIFA–the Fédération Internationale de Football Association–is soccer’s global…
"CSI" showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and "CSI: Miami" showrunner Ann Donahue have renewed their contracts with CBS TV Studios for four additional years, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The contracts represent terms that are longer than typical for a showrunner agreement, as…
Sunday’s World Cup match between Argentina and Mexico drew 9.36 million viewers to Univision, making the broadcast the biggest audience for any Spanish-language program, whether it be sports or entertainment, in U.S. television history, Mediaweek reports. The broadcast was strong…
After the success of ABC’s "I Survived a Japanese Game Show," the U.S.-based A. Smith & Co. and Japan’s Taiyo Kikaku Co. are creating a partnership to collaborate on more programs, the Hollywood Reporter reports. A. Smith’s founder Arthur Smith…
Rosie O’Donnell is negotiating with NBC to have her new talk show aired on the Peacock Network’s owned and operated stations, Gossip Cop reports. The information comes from the same reliable source who told Gossip Cop exclusively in March that…
An iOS 4.0.1 software fix is in the works and may arrive early this week, reports CNET. Around the time the iPhone 4 was first released last week, users started flooding the Internet with complaints that holding the phone a…