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Chuck Ross

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.

Deja Vu All Over Again: Another Late-Night Talk Show Host Is Dating the Co-Head Writer on His Show

People magazine is reporting that another late-night talk show host is dating one of his employees. The host is Jimmy Kimmel, 41, who is dating Molly McNearney, 31, the co-head writer of his talk show, People reports. The People report…

The Leno Move So Far: NBC Says It Makes Financial Sense; Late News on Local NBC Affiliates Is Suffering

Bill Carter of the New York Times delves in some depth as to what the the move of Jay Leno to 10 pm has wrought thus far, and reports that some of the ratings of local NBC affiliate late newscasts…

Cable Again Behind the Eight-Ball in Customer Satisfaction

The 2009 J.D. Power and Associates U.S. Residential Television Service Satisfaction Study is out, and leading the survey are AT&T U-verse, Verizon-FiOS and WOW!, according to Multichannel News. WOW is a cable operator owned by Avista Capital Partners and stands…

Obama’s Improbable Peace Prize Plays Like It Was Invented in Hollywood; I Hear It Actually Was

President Obama’s selection as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize came as such a surprise, some wags are saying even Hollywood wouldn’t have come up with such an improbable scenario. But our TVWeek sources say that that’s exactly where the idea…

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Announcement of a Sequel to His Mega-Hit ‘Phantom,’ Set 10 Years Later in Coney Island at its Peak and Slated to Debut in March, Pushes Back His BBC Reality Show That Will Cast New Version of ‘Wizard of Oz’

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber announced details Thursday of his new musical "Love Never Dies," according to the Los Angeles Times. A sequel to his mega-hit "Phantom of the Opera," it will be set 10 years later, and the Phantom will…

Forbes Report: Comcast’s Rivals Who Are Also Interested in NBCU (Hint: The Winds Are Blowing Strong Off the Rocky Mountains)

Forbes has come up with its list of who–besides Comcast–might mount a bid for NBC Universal. Confirming our own TVWeek speculation, Forbes thinks it’s likely that Liberty Media, led by Denver-area based John Malone, will make a bid. And, like…

A Bunch of Nancy Grace News: First, Watch the Video of Her Giving Swift Justice to Jon Gosselin (It’s a lulu); Second, She’s Prepping Syndie Show Called…’Swift Justice’

It’s our Nancy Grace compendium: First, watch Grace yell and scream and tear Jon Gosselin apart in this video clip from CBS Television Distribution’s syndicated "The Insider." We already see this as being a finalist as one of our TV clips…

Web Site Polls 500,000 Men to Find Most Influential Man of the Year. Last Year It Was Obama. This Year It’s a Fictional TV Character. Bet You’ll Never Guess Which One

Every  year AskMen.com, polls its readers to find the most influential man of the year. The idea, according to the Web site, is to list the "men who had the greatest impact on how other men behave, dress, buy and…

Audience Loves Letterman’s Angst

As trying as alleged extortion and telling the public you’ve had sex with some of your employees may be for David Letterman, it’s great for business. Monday’s "Late Show With David Letterman" garnered ratings 36% higher than the show’s season-to-date…

If Women Are From Venus and Men Are From Mars, Then Letterman Is From Uranus (But Seriously Folks): Craig Ferguson and Letterman Himself Joke About Letterman

In his awkward, surprising confession about having sex in the past with his employees–and then allegedly being blackmailed for $2 million by another CBS employee about the trysts–David Letterman said last Thursday that it would likely be the last time he spoke about the matter….