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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.

AMC Nets Launch Mobile Ad Platform

AMC Networks is launching a targeted mobile ad platform through a partnership with the mobile advertising technology company ACTV8me, MediaPost reports. “The platform, which will live under the company’s data-driven AMCN Agility ad sales team, will deliver offers to smartphones…

Hulu Announces Strategic Reorganization, Hires Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Officer

Press release from Hulu, June 1, 2018: As Hulu continues to scale its subscriber base, add thousands of new hours of content, develop award-winning original series, increase its premium advertising offerings and expand its footprint in the live pay television…

Spotify Policy Update

Spotify announcement posted June 1, 2018: Spotify recently shared a new policy around hate content and conduct. And while we believe our intentions were good, the language was too vague, we created confusion and concern, and didn’t spend enough time…

Emmy and Golden Globe Award Winner Kelsey Grammer Joins Fox’s New Legal Drama, ‘Proven Innocent’

Press release from Fox, June 1, 2018: Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer (“Cheers, “Frasier,” “Boss”) has joined the cast of FOX’s upcoming drama PROVEN INNOCENT. Grammer will play GORE BELLOWS, a hard-as-nails and tough-on-crime…

CNN Playing Hardball With Morgan Freeman

After receiving a demand from an attorney representing Morgan Freeman for a retraction of a CNN story detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by the actor, as we reported earlier this week, CNN drew a line in the sand today. “CNN’s…

Matt LeBlanc to Leave ‘Top Gear’

“Matt LeBlanc is making for the exit after BBC Studios confirmed that the ‘Top Gear’ host will leave after the next season of the motoring format,” Deadline reports. “LeBlanc, who joined the series in 2016, will leave the BBC Two…

Trump Keeps the Pressure on Disney/ABC Chief Bob Iger

Donald Trump wasn’t finished with Disney/ABC chief Bob Iger when he sent out a tweet Wednesday suggesting that he had been treated unfairly by ABC, as we reported Wednesday. Trump followed up early today with another tweet targeting Iger. “Iger,…

Report: John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf Set for Huge Payouts From Cancellation of ‘Roseanne’

ABC’s decision to cancel “Roseanne” over a racist tweet by star Roseanne Barr will be an expensive one for the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. “Per multiple insiders, reps for the stars, including Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf…

White House Slams TV Show, Calls It ‘Not Fit for Broadcast,’ After Comment Sparks Backlash

The White House is up in arms about a TV series today, with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responding in an angry statement to a comment aired Wednesday night on the TBS show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” “The language…

‘The Americans’ Stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Offer Their Take on Last Night’s Series Finale

The FX spy drama “The Americans,” one of the most acclaimed TV series of recent years, wrapped its six-season run with a 90-minute series finale Wednesday night, answering a few questions but leaving at least as many unanswered. The show’s…