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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.
So why did the New York Post’s Page Six call Larry David on his cell phone? They wanted to ask him if the rumors were true that his ex-wife Laurie was the cause of the marriage breaking up between Al and…
CBS is making thousands of fans unhappy with its plan to cut "Criminal Minds" co-star A.J. Cook and reduce the number of episodes for another female star, Paget Brewster, reports Nellie Andreeva on Deadline.com. The plan came to light earlier…
HBO has filled a key role for its upcoming series "Cinema Verite," which is based upon one of the most popular PBS series of all time. The HBO series is about the 1970s PBS documentary "An American Family." To play…
Piers Morgan, the former British tabloid editor and host of "America’s Got Talent", will begin at CNN in October, beginning a phaseout of Larry King’s show with his own hourlong interview program, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Morgan’s…
In a trial about a profit dispute over "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," a 1999 email was presented from former Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner in which he expressed his belief that the show was as important to…
ABC in clearly not interested in quietly settling the lawsuit brought against it by fromer "Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan, reports THR. Esq. According to the report, "The network has hired Adam Levin, an employment litigation specialist at L.A.’s Mitchell…
Discovery Channel was in a quandary when Captain Phil Harris, a star of its documentary show "Deadliest Catch," died suddenly in February after a stroke, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. But the network has now decided the…
It’s been less than a year since WPIX-TV in New York started a 6:30 p.m. newscast, and now it’s cutting the program, reports the New York Daily News. The half-hour news program was anchored by Jim Watkins and Kaity Tong….
ESPN has sold about 90% of its advertising inventory for "Monday Night Football," while NBC has agreements for over 80% of its "Sunday Night Football" franchise, with both securing price increases at about 9%, reports TheWrap.com. While advertisers have been…