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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.

Oxygen Media Expands True Crime Programming Slate With 10 New Original Series and the U.S. Premiere of a Piers Morgan Event Series

Press release from Oxygen, April 9, 2018: Oxygen Media, the home for quality true crime programming, is aggressively expanding its original series slate with 10 new greenlights and the US premiere of a Piers Morgan event series, it was announced…

Season 11 of CNN Original Series ‘Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown’ Launches Sunday, April 29, at 9 p.m. With a Tour of West Virginia in an Extended Episode

Press release from CNN, April 9, 2018: Season 11 of the top-rated Emmy and Peabody award-winning CNN Original Series Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown begins on Sunday, April 29 at 9pm ET/PT with a trip to West Virginia, in a special…

U.S. Arts Network Ovation Buys Multi-Genre Package From Banijay Rights Totaling More Than 65 Hours

Press release from Ovation, April 9, 2018: Banijay Rights, the leading distribution arm of Banijay Group, has licensed a package of more than 65 hours of programming to Ovation, America’s only arts network. The high-volume deal sees two seasons of…

CBS Renews Sitcom

CBS announced on Sunday that it is renewing a series that “has been a lynchpin comedy for us over the last several years,” according to the president of CBS Entertainment, Kelly Kahl. The show is “Mom,” the popular Thursday night…

Award-Winning Series Canceled

A series that has won Primetime Emmys and Golden Globes has just been given its cancellation notice after four seasons. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Amazon pulled the plug on the dramedy “Mozart in the Jungle.” The show…

Netflix in High-Stakes Beef With Cannes, Threatens to Withhold Its Films From the Festival

Netflix is in a showdown with the Cannes Film Festival, and the future of the film industry is in the crosshairs, according to an exclusive in The Hollywood Reporter. “Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix has threatened not to…

Tiffany Haddish to Produce Comedy Series at HBO

Tiffany Haddish will executive produce a comedy series that’s now in development at HBO, the first project she has set up under her first-look deal with the pay-cable net, Variety reports in an exclusive. The project, “Unsubscribed,” is described as…

New Series Sets Cable Mark as Most-Watched Unscripted Premiere Since 2012 in Target Demo

A new show is off to a hot start, setting a mark as cable’s most-watched unscripted premiere since 2012 and becoming MTV’s highest-rated new show in six years in MTV’s target demo. MTV announced that “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” premiered…

War of Words Raging Between Jimmy Kimmel and Pretty Much Everyone at Fox News

Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity, along with others at Fox News, are locked in a nasty feud after a number of commentators at Fox took issue with Kimmel’s material on first lady Melania Trump. “It all started when Kimmel laughed…

We May Hate the Subject Matter of Spielberg’s New TV Series … But That’s the Point

A new TV series from Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney, whose directorial efforts include the Oscar-nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” focuses on why human beings hate. Discovery Channel announced plans today for the event series, which has…