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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.

Guess Which Media Company Received the Largest Share of Ad Revenues in the 2017-2018 Season

During the recently completed 2017-2018 television season, the largest share of advertising revenue among media companies was brought in by NBCUniversal, MediaPost reports. “In terms of entertainment programming across all its networks, NBCU holds 17.3% of the ad revenue market…

Actor Terry Crews Tells Senate Panel How, in Hollywood, ‘Abusers Protect Abusers’

Actor Terry Crews testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, telling lawmakers he has had to turn down jobs because he has been outspoken about sexual assault. Deadline reports that Crews “said he was threatened with retaliation for speaking…

Lindsay Lohan Working on Series Patterned After a Certain Reality Show

Actress Lindsay Lohan reportedly has a reality show in the works, and it’s patterned after the show “Vanderpump Rules,” a “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” spinoff. That’s one of the nuggets in an interview with Lohan by Gabrielle Bluestone, published…

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment Starts Documentary Unit

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has set up a documentary unit and hired RadicalMedia partner and President of Entertainment Justin Wilkes to run it, Deadline reports. The new unit, Imagine Documentaries, will be based in New York. The…

As ‘Homeland’ Winds Down, Claire Danes Says She’d Like to Work Again With the Woman Who Originally Put Her on the TV Map

In an interview focused largely on her work as Carrie Mathison on Showtime’s “Homeland,” actress Claire Danes told Variety she would be open to reuniting with “My So-Called Life” creator Winnie Holzman. “I think we might have another something in…

Actress Heather Locklear Hospitalized

“Heather Locklear was hospitalized just hours after she was released from jail following her attack on a police officer and an EMT,” reports People magazine, confirming news first broken by TMZ. People reports: “Paramedics and Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies were…

Former Entertainment President of the CW Has Just Been Hired by … Spotify

The music streaming service Spotify has hired the former president of entertainment at the CW, Dawn Ostroff, to be its new chief content officer, reports Variety. “Ostroff, who was previously president of entertainment at Conde Nast, will be based at…

Basic Cable Has a New Hit Drama Series

The ad-supported cable world just chalked up its most watched scripted drama series premiere since the 2016 premiere of “The People vs. O.J. Simpson.” The Paramount Network announced today that the premiere of the Kevin Costner series “Yellowstone” delivered almost…

Veteran TV Journalist’s Investigative Program to Return

The return is set for a long-running investigative program centered on Emmy-winning TV journalist and newscaster Paula Zahn. “On the Case with Paula Zahn” returns to Investigation Discovery July 15 for its 17th season. “The season premiere of ‘On the…

Sean Spicer Readying Talk Show

“Sean Spicer, arguably the world’s most famous White House press secretary, is developing a talk show with the tentative title of ‘Sean Spicer’s Common Ground,’ in which the former spokesman for President Trump interviews notable people in an informal setting,”…