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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.

‘2 Broke Girls’ Alum to Star in Lee Daniels Comedy

One of the stars of the omnipresent CBS comedy series “2 Broke Girls” is on her way to Fox. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Beth Behrs will star in the new Lee Daniels comedy pilot “Our People.” “Based…

Show Business Crowns History’s First ‘Double EGOT’ Winner — With Two Oscars, Two Emmys, Three Tonys and Three Grammys

As of last night, show business has its first-ever “double EGOT” winner, who not only has won the Emmy, the Oscar, the Grammy and the Tony, but has won each award at least twice. Variety reports that Robert Lopez accomplished…

Bill Cosby Appears in Court as His Attorneys Fail to Get Case Thrown Out

“Bill Cosby made his first court appearance of the #MeToo era on Monday as defense lawyers tried without success to get his sexual assault case thrown out, then turned their attention to blocking some of the 80-year-old comedian’s dozens of…

Police Arrest Man Suspected of Stealing Frances McDormand’s Oscar

Police in Los Angeles arrested a man Sunday night who is accused of stealing actress Frances McDormand’s Oscar trophy. Earlier in the evening, McDormand won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”…

Here’s Who the Oscars Left Out of the ‘In Memoriam’ Segment This Year

The Oscars always seem to snub a few major stars when it comes to the annual “In Memoriam” tribute to those who have been lost in the past year. And it happened again on Sunday. The New York Daily News…

Macaulay Culkin Rips the Oscars on Social Media

“Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin, who’s 37 now and described by The New York Post’s Page Six as a “former actor,” live tweeted the Oscars on Sunday, offering a running critique of the ceremony that was generally unflattering. But he…

Netflix Series Renewed

A critically acclaimed series running on Netflix has picked up a renewal from the streaming service, which announced today that it will bring back “Black Mirror” for a fifth season. Created by Charlie Brooker, the science fiction anthology series debuted…

New President of ESPN Named

Disney has appointed a new president of ESPN and co-chair of Disney Media Networks, naming James Pitaro to the post, Deadline reports. “Pitaro replaces John Skipper who resigned as president of ESPN and co-chairman of the Disney Media Networks in…

‘M*A*S*H’s’ Major Winchester, David Ogden Stiers, Dead at 75

Veteran actor David Ogden Stiers, best remembered for playing Major Winchester on “M*A*S*H” from 1977-1983, has died. The New York Times reports that Stiers died Saturday at his home in Newport, Ore., from bladder cancer. He was 75. “Mr. Stiers…

Sunday’s Oscarcast Is on Track to Be the Lowest-Rated of All Time

The Oscars telecast, which occupied almost four hours of airtime Sunday on ABC, delivered an average of 26.5 million viewers, Variety reports. “While that was good enough to handily top all of Sunday’s broadcast competition and most of the award…