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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.

Chris Noth to Star in Original Drama Series

Two new original series, both in the detective procedural genre, are being added to the slate of “Prime Crime” programming at WGN America. Deadline reports that the comedic “Carter,” starring Jerry O’Connell, Sydney Poitier Heartsong and Kristian Bruun, is set…

Today’s Must-Read Item Is by Joe Nocera, a Bloomberg Columnist and Former Editorial Director of Fortune

Joe Nocera is a Bloomberg opinion columnist covering business, who has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and The New York Times and is the former editorial director of Fortune. Please click here to read his brave, moving, eye-opening column…

Dennis Rodman Gets Emotional During CNN Interview on Trump-Kim Summit

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, whose exploits in North Korea have been making headlines for years, offered his thoughts on the Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit during an interview on CNN — including getting emotional while talking about the path…

Nielsen Figures Out a Way to Compress TV Commercials — and Says It Makes Them Better Than Longer Ones

Nielsen has reportedly patented a method of compressing television commercials that the company says makes them as effective or more effective than they are in their original length. MediaPost reports that the method, which also makes the ads cheaper to…

Actress Offers Insights Into Anthony Bourdain’s Suicide

Actress Rose McGowan sent an open letter to a number of media outlets talking about her friend Asia Argento and Argento’s late boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain. In the letter, according to Deadline, McGowan writes, “I know before Anthony died he reached…

‘America’s Got Talent’ Winner Dies

A singer who was a winner on the NBC competition program “America’s Got Talent” is dead at 42. The AP reports that Neal Boyd, an opera singer who won the show’s third season in 2008, died Sunday evening at his…

Thousands of Women Smash Record for World’s Largest Skinny-Dip — Here’s the Video

A huge gathering of naked women set a Guinness World Record for the largest skinny-dip ever. CNN reports that the event took place at Magheramore beach in Country Wicklow, Ireland, with 2,505 women involved. The women spent at least five…

CBS Quietly Updating Its ‘Evening News’

CBS has a clear objective in mind as it implements changes in its news operation, and that’s to reach out to a younger and more digitally oriented generation, Variety reports in an examination of the mostly subtle changes that are…

Report: Running Fewer TV Ads Yields Only Small Improvements in Number of Viewers

Running reduced advertising loads in television programming results in only small improvements in the numbers of people who watch individual commercials, MediaPost reports, citing new research from Comcast’s Freewheel video management platform. The report found that when programmers cut the…

Freshman Drama Series Renewed

A drama series that recently premiered, with just two episodes being televised so far by HBO, has already picked up a renewal for a second season from the pay-cable channel. HBO announced the renewal today for “Succession,” which premiered June…