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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.
Perhaps in a first for a television show promotion, National Geographic Channel is locking three volunteers in solitary cells and Web streaming their "imprisonment" as a way to promote a new documentary on solitary confinement, the New York Times reports….
Bob Garfield, Advertising Age’s resident ad critic for the past 25 years, says he’s giving up his column, AdReview. In his farewell column, Garfield cites a number of reasons for giving up reviewing, including frustration that what he’s had to…
Jessica Alba made a guest appearance on ABC’s "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," and the experience turned out to be a life-changing one–for her. During the show, according to ABC News, "Alba, 28, said she was ‘totally inspired’ by a family…
The husband-and-wife actors Tisha Campbell-Martin and Duane Martin have been cast in separate comedy pilots, with Campbell-Martin landing a role in ABC’s "Wright vs. Wrong" and Martin finding a role on NBC’s "Next," the Hollywood Reporter says. On "Wright vs….
BET is working on a plan to bring back The CW’s comedy "The Game," which will be announced at its upfront presentation this month, the Hollywood Reporter says. The network has renegotiated new deals with the show’s actors after their…
Even if NBC renews "Law & Order" for a record-breaking 21st season, one of the show’s biggest stars ever is leaving. S. Epatha Merkerson tells EW’s Michael Ausiello that she’s decided to end her 16-year role as the indomitable Lt. Van Buren on…
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The murder of John Walsh’s son in 1981 launched him onto the path to becoming the host of "America’s Most Wanted." Long unsolved, a deathbed confession from a man named Ottis Toole lead the police to name him the killer…
One of the newest members of Bravo’s "Real Housewives of New York City" is the ex-wife of John Adams Morgan, a descendant of banker John Pierpont Morgan, the New York Post reports. Sonja Morgan, a former model, tells the tabloid that…
Product placement is nothing new on television, yet the heavy-handed integration of several products on ABC’s "Modern Family" and Fox’s "American Idol" have raised questions about when such integration goes too far, the Hollywood Reporter says. "Modern Family," for example,…