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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.
NBC has picked up "Chase", adding the action-procedural from Jerry Bruckheimer to the several other programs the network has tapped for its new schedule, the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed reports. NBC says the show is "a fast-paced drama that…
While it’s been speculated that MTV’s hit "Jersey Shore" would add new cast members in the third season, the show will include new faces in the second half of season two, EW.com reports. After the original cast finishes filming in…
Fox and CBS have rejoined the National Association of Broadcasters, an achievement for Gordon Smith, the new president of the television industry’s key lobbying group, Joe Flint writes in the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The decision means that…
Several cable groups have picked the name SelecTV as the brand for the industry’s interactive television services, Multichannel News reports. Led by Canoe Ventures, the groups picked the name to provide a consumer-friendly brand that will let viewers know about…
Start singing the "Welcome Back, Kotter" theme song. After the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences proposed nixing the Emmy award for main tittle theme song for television shows, a vote by the academy’s music branch has dead-ended the plan,…
CBS may give the Chuck Lorre-produced "Mike & Molly" an early pickup this week, breaking from its habit of waiting until the Monday of upfront week to make its picks, Nellie Andreeva reports at Deadline.com. The reason is because the comedy…
What Does ‘SNL’ Need for Ratings and Laughs? Just 88-Year Old Betty WhiteWhat does "Saturday Night Live" need to freshen up its laughs and draw back viewers? Apparently it’s an 88-year old woman, says Dave Itzkoff in the New York…
It’s clear that there’s a war between the Obama White House and Fox News. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross says it’s a bigger issue about the nature of a free press in a democracy in his very provocative essay. Click…
Lena Horne, the first African-American performer to be signed by a Hollywood studio, has died at age 92, the New York Times reports. Horne, who became a beloved international singing sensation, "languished at MGM in the 1940s because of the…