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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.

Uh-Oh: Your Smart TV May Be Opening the Door to Let Hackers Into Your Living Room

Consumer Reports is warning consumers that certain Smart TVs are vulnerable to hacking, citing models from Samsung and TCL, along with other units using the Roku Smart TV platform. The publication indicated that a security flaw enables hackers relatively easily…

CBS Legal Drama to Return Next Month

CBS this week unleashed a two-minute trailer ahead of the March 4 return of its All Access legal drama “The Good Fight.” The series, which stars Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo, Rose Leslie, Delroy Lindo and Audra McDonald, is returning for…

Watch George Clooney and David Letterman Bond in This Clip From Letterman’s Netflix Series

George Clooney and David Letterman bond over In-N-Out burgers and compete over who’s better at identifying airplanes in a teaser released today for Letterman’s Netflix series. The Clooney episode of “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” begins streaming this Friday,…

Well-Known NPR Investigative Reporter Daniel Zwerdling Has Suddenly Retired. Sexual Harassment Has Been Alleged. He Denies the Allegations. NPR Needs to Be Much More Forthcoming Than It’s Been

Please click here to read TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross’ insightful essay about veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling’s sudden retirement amid sexual harassment allegations, and why Ross thinks NPR needs to be more transparent about what’s going on.

MTV Schedules Its First-Ever Global Premiere

MTV is closing in on what the cable channel says will be the first global premiere in its history, when it rolls out “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” in nearly 180 countries on Thursday, April 5. The premiere marks the return…

Why Sharon Tate’s Sister Is Lashing Out at the New Hilary Duff Movie About the Actress

A new movie in which former Disney Channel star Hilary Duff will play murdered actress Sharon Tate isn’t even out yet and it’s already getting bad reviews from Tate’s younger sister, Debra Tate. People reports that Debra Tate had more…

The American Farmer Gets a TV Show

An upcoming television series puts the American farmer front and center. With the appropriate title “American Farmer,” the docuseries has been greenlighted by History. “The eight-part series will be an honest tale of risk, reward, hard work, innovation and grit…

Layoffs at Viacom

“Viacom has initiated a round of layoffs, part of a cost-cutting move anticipated since late last year,” reports Daniel Holloway in Variety. The story continues, “It is believed that fewer than 100 employees will be impacted by the layoffs, which will…

Well-Known NPR Investigative Reporter Daniel Zwerdling Has Suddenly Retired. Sexual Harassment Has Been Alleged. He Denies the Allegations. NPR Needs to Be Much More Forthcoming Than It’s Been

On Tuesday, Feb. 6th, Current, a nonprofit news service for and about public media that’s published by the American University School of Communication, posted a story by associate editor April Simpson titled “NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling out after investigation into harassment.”…

Owner of L.A. Times Finds Buyer for the Paper

“The Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce it is selling the newspaper, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, in a surprise move that probably spells the end of its long-troubled relationship with Southern…