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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.

Letterman to Grace NBC Late-Night

David Letterman has booked a return of sorts to late-night, with a visit next week to NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Letterman is booked as a guest for Wednesday, May 23. “Letterman’s…

NFL Team Is Sold — for a Record Price

An NFL team just got a new owner, who will pay the record price of $2.2 billion for the team. CBS Sports reports that billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper will be shelling out for the Carolina Panthers. “This blasts…

One of the Greatest Sports Icons to Be Focus of Series

A new TV series will focus on an athlete who is acclaimed as one of the greatest sports icons of all time, former NBA great Michael Jordan. ESPN Films and Netflix announced plans today for the joint production “The Last…

Was NBC Lying in Wait for ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’?

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Andy Samberg is crediting some high-profile supporters with helping the show get picked up by NBC after it was canceled by Fox. But NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt hinted that NBC was already more than prepared to…

Author Tom Wolfe, Pioneer of ‘New Journalism,’ Dead at 88

“Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s moneyed status-seekers in works like ‘The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,’ ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire…

ABC Releases Trailers for Its New Fall Shows — Watch Them Now

ABC has released official trailers for the new prime-time shows that will make up a big part of the network’s fall lineup. Here they are: “A Million Little Things” “The Rookie” “Single Parents” “The Kids Are Alright” “Grand Hotel” “Whiskey…

ABC Unleashes Fall Schedule Loaded With New Shows

ABC released its fall schedule today, with the network’s prime-time lineup filled out by a heavy dose of new series. The network announced six new shows — “A Million Little Things,” “The Fix,” “Grand Hotel,” “The Kids Are Alright,” ‘Single…

Fan Favorite Pauley Perrette Implies She Left ‘NCIS’ After ‘Multiple Physical Assaults’

“What, exactly, happened on the set of ‘NCIS’ to make Pauley Perrette leave after so many years?” asks Laura Bradley on the Vanity Fair website. Bradley reports: “The details remain unclear. But in a series of vague tweets, the actress made several startling claims…

ABC Unveils 2018-19 Prime-Time Schedule

Press release from ABC, May 15, 2018: Coming on the heels of a tremendously successful 2017-18 season that boasts the No. 1 show on television (“Roseanne”), the No. 1 new drama (“The Good Doctor”) and the No. 1 reality show…

CBS-Viacom Showdown on Fast Track: Court Date Set for This Week

Leslie Moonves and Shari Redstone won’t have to wait long to wage what’s being described by Deadline as a “Game of Thrones level war” as Moonves seeks to keep Redstone and her family from forcing a CBS-Viacom merger on the…