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.

THR’s TV Editor Andreeva to Join Deadline.com

Hollywood Reporter’s television editor Nellie Andreeva is joining Deadline.com, where she’ll lead television coverage for the site, reports Mediabistro.com. Andreeva will take on the role in the next two weeks. Previously, Deadline.com, run by Nikki Finke, hired Michael Fleming from…

CBS Pilot Casts ‘Sons of Tucson’ Star

A CBS comedy pilot has tapped a "Sons of Tucson" star to play the main character’s best friend, the Hollywood Reporter says. The star is Tyler Labine. The job comes after Labine initially turned down the role as his midseason…

TV Stations Turn Down Losing New Jersey Nets

The New Jersey Nets’ losing streak just got a whole lot worse, theNew York Post reports. The YES Network, unable to air three games next week because of scheduling conflicts with Yankees games, sought to find another network to air…

After Ratings Slide, Fox Shakes up ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

With a ratings slide during the past two years, Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance" is set for a shake-up, the Hollywood Reporter says. Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said he’s planning to return dancers from previous series who will…

Legendary Writer Director Frank Darabont (‘Shawshank Redemption’) Comes to TV to Make Zombie Series

Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont (writer/director of "The Shawshank Redemption") is coming to TV to work on a zombie drama series, The Hollywood Reporter says. The series is "The Walking Dead," based on graphic novels by Robert Kirkman. Darabount will…

CNN Continues Ratings Slide, with Larry King Hitting New Lows

CNN’s refusal to schedule partisan talk shows isn’t doing the network any favors, the New York Times reports. The network’s ratings continued to slide in March, with its prime-time star Larry King ratcheting up his worst quarter ever, the newspaper…

The One Extra Show Fox MUST Do To Send Off “24” Properly (Don’t Worry, No Spoilers Here)

With the end of “24” as a TV series now officially announced, there’s one extra show Fox really needs to do to send off “24” properly. And it’s got nothing to do with this season’s arc, per se. I’m basically…

ABC Charging $900,000 Per-30 To Advertise in ‘Lost’ Series Finale

Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age So much for "Keep it simple, stupid." ABC’s "Lost" may have shed millions of viewers as the show grew increasingly complex, but the remaining fans are so intense that marketers are spending big to appear in the…

‘Lost’ Drawing Almost $1 Million Per-30 To Advertise in the Finale

As "Lost" draws to a close, advertisers are bidding up 30-second spots in the finale with prices reaching $900,000, Advertising Age reports. That represents more than a quadrupling of average $213,563 price the show fetched during last year’s upfront, the…

‘Big Love’ Star Says Show Is ‘Awful’

"Big Love" star Chloe Sevigny, who plays Nicolette Grant on the HBO series, tells Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello that she called "Big Love" creators Will Scheffer and Mark V. Olsen to apologize for calling the program’s fourth season "awful" in…