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.

HBO, ‘Entourage’ Producers Close to Deal for Female-Focused Comedy

The producers of "Entourage" are close to a deal with HBO to create a female-focused series about a group of woman friends who live and work in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Reporter reports. "Entourage" executive producers Mark Wahlberg and Stephen…

Haim Saban Takes Back Control of ‘Power Rangers’ from Disney, Shifts Show to Nickelodeon

Haim Saban has reacquired the rights to his best-known franchise, the Power Rangers, from the Walt Disney Co. and has licensed the program to Nickelodeon in a bid to refresh the children’s program, the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog…

‘Sopranos’ James Gandolfini Back Acting on Another HBO Program; Tim Robbins Joins Cast as Well

James Gandolfini, star of HBO’s "The Sopranos" will be back acting on another HBO program, along with Tim Robbiins, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The program, from HBO Films, is "Cinema Verite," the story of the making of the 1970s ground-breaking PBS series "An American…

While ‘Idol’ Ratings Recover, CBS Wins Tuesday Night

While Fox’s "American Idol" showed improvement on Tuesday night after falling to an eight-year low last week, CBS won the night, the New York Times reports. A movie-themed "Idol" episode drew 18.7 million viewers at 8 p.m., compared with 17.5…

Comcast Gives 3D a Boost

By Andrew HamppAdvertising Age When 3-D TV was all the rage earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the conversation was around the technology’s potential. But at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference in Los Angeles…

With Nation’s Largerst Cable Operator Adding ESPN 3D, 3-D Television Gets Boost; Plus, a 3-D Warning from the Nation’s Second Largest Cable Operator

ESPN has signed a deal with the nation’s largest cable operator to air ESPN 3D, a cable network that will carry 3-D coverage of sporting events starting with the World Cup next month, Advertising Age reports. Comcast will introduce the channel…

FCC Unlikely to Regulate Retransmission Consent Issues

It’s unlikely the Federal Communications Commission will step in to regulate disputes over retransmission consent issues between cable operators and broadcasters, theLos Angeles Times’ Company Town blog reports. Speaking at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s convention on Wednesday, top…

Program from Tivo-Milward Brown Use Responses From 35,000 Subscribers to Create Behavioral, Psychographic Segments; Plus Terms for Set-Top Box Measurement from CIMM

By Brian Steinberg, Advertising Age In another sign that advertisers are growing more interested in determining what types of people watch their ads — rather than just how many — market-research shop Millward Brown is partnering with TiVo in an…

Verizon’s FiOS to Launch TV Everywhere So Subs Can Get TNT and TBS Shows Over the Internet

Verizon’s FiOS has made a deal twth Time Warner so its susbscribers can see TNT and TBS shows on the Internet, the companies announced at the annual convention of the National Cable and Telecommunicaions Association in Los Angeles on Wednesday,…

Fox Picks up Four Pilots, Renews ‘Lie to Me’ Though Showrunner Quits

Fox has picked up four pilots for next season, The Hollywood Reporter’sLive Feed Blog reports. Also, the network has renewed "Lie to Me," even thought showrunner Shaw Ryan is leaving the show. One of the pilot pickups is Ryan’s "RideAlong,"…