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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.

ABC Gives Its ‘Roseanne’ Revival an Oscar Boost

With its revival of “Roseanne” set to premiere later this month, ABC used Sunday’s Oscars telecast to help publicize the premiere, including unveiling the official trailer for the series. You can watch the trailer below. The series returns March 27…

‘The Shape of Water’ Named Best Picture — Here Are All the Oscar Winners

The 90th Oscars crowned “The Shape of Water” as the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture on Sunday night, with the movie’s director, Guillermo del Toro, named Best Director. The movie also won for Best Original Score and…

The Academy Awards Ceremony Is Today. Here Are Two Printable Oscar Ballots. On One, You Pick the Academy Award Winners. The Other Has Our Choices Marked for You

It’s Oscar time! Today, Sunday, March 4, 2018, is the live telecast of the 90th Annual Academy Awards on ABC, hosted, like last year, by Jimmy Kimmel. For a ballot you can print out and mark, please click here. If…


Why NBC’s Live Presentation of the Classic Broadway Musical ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ Has Been Delayed Again

NBC’s “Bye Bye Birdie Live” has been pushed back again, with Variety reporting that the Jennifer Lopez-led production will now air in 2019 at the earliest. The project “has been delayed for a second time due to the difficulty of…

McDonald’s Incident Goes Viral, Sparks Outrage

Video of an incident at a McDonald’s restaurant in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in which a homeless man was kicked out after a customer bought him food, has sparked outrage online after the clip went viral on a number of social…

Megyn Kelly Scores a Second Sitdown With Vladimir Putin — Here’s a Look

In her second interview with Vladimir Putin, NBC’s Megyn Kelly confronted the Russian leader on his claims about ICBMs. NBC showed a little bit of the interview on its evening news broadcast last night, with anchor Lester Holt indicating that…

Bidding War Breaks Out Over Hot New TV Project

One buzzworthy TV project seems to suddenly be on everyone’s wish list, presumably because it’s being shopped by the “power duo” of Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The two stars are working on a limited series based on Celeste Ng’s…

Sinclair Reportedly Will Sell Chicago Station WGN-TV — But Is It Just a Ploy to Skirt Ownership Regulations?

“Sinclair Broadcast Group is selling WGN-TV to a Maryland auto dealer but would remain in control of the station in what critics say is a bid to skirt ownership limits and win federal regulatory approval for its proposed $3.9 billion…

Longtime Production Executive at Fox TV Dead at 64

A veteran production executive and television producer at 20th Century Fox Television has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruce Margolis died Feb. 16 at a hospice facility in West Covina, Calif., following a battle with cancer. He was 64….

Showtime Makes Series Available for Free

For the first time in Showtime’s history the pay-cable channel is making every episode of a series available for free to non-subscribers. The channel announced today that “The Trade,” a documentary series focusing on the opioid epidemic, is being made…