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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.

NBC Readies Saturation Coverage, New Faces and a Few Wrinkles as Olympics Open This Week

With the Winter Olympics launching this week, NBC is betting its Pyeongchang rights fee of $963 million that its saturation coverage of the two-week-plus event will pay off. The AP notes that a few skiing and figure skating events will…

2018 Tribeca Film Festival to Open With World Premiere of ‘Love, Gilda’ on Wednesday, April 18

Press release from Tribeca Film Festival, Feb. 6, 2018: The Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, will open its 17th edition with the world premiere of LOVE, GILDA on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. CNN Films presents the feature length documentary…

‘Frasier’ Star John Mahoney Dead at 77

Actor John Mahoney, best known for playing the perennially annoyed ex-cop father of Frasier and Niles Crane on NBC’s hit sitcom “Frasier,” has died. TMZ reports that Mahoney died Sunday in hospice care in Chicago. He was 77. Mahoney received…

Paul Simon Announces Farewell Tour

Legendary singer and songwriter Paul Simon says he is retiring from touring, and he revealed the itinerary today for his final tour. Simon, 76, will tour North America, the U.K. and Europe from May to July, wrapping up the tour…

Updated Super Bowl Ratings: Sunday’s Game Cracks the Top 10 TV Programs of All Time

NBC delivered updated numbers for viewership of Sunday’s Super Bowl, announcing that the game posted total audience delivery of 106 million viewers across all platforms, based on Nielsen Fast National data and digital data from Adobe Analytics. The game ran…

From a High-Achieving Couch Potato to a Good Old-Fashioned Expletive-Filled Rant, Annual Pre-Oscars Event Had It All

The major players in the original and adapted screenplay categories for this year’s Academy Awards turned up Thursday night for the annual Beyond Words event, put on by the Writers Guild. Among the highlights, Aaron Sorkin revealed that much of…

One Super Bowl Commercial Has Kicked Up a Firestorm — Here’s Why

One Super Bowl commercial that has come under heavy fire since it aired during Sunday’s game is a Dodge Ram commercial, which you can watch below. The New York Times reports that the spot generated criticism over its use of…

How Much Did NBC Make on Advertising for This Year’s Super Bowl?

NBC’s haul from advertising for Sunday’s Super Bowl, in which the Philadelphia Eagles knocked off the New England Patriots 41-33, was $414 million — the second-largest take in history, MediaPost reports, citing Kantar Media’s preliminary estimate of in-game ad spending….

HBO Unveils Plans for Return of One of Its Most High-Profile Shows

HBO has unveiled plans for the return of a high-profile drama series, providing a glimpse of season two of “Westworld” in a spot that ran during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The spot marks HBO’s first Super Bowl ad in 20 years….

‘Queer Eye’ Then and Now: The Original Fab Five Trades Notes With the New Cast

In an unusual encounter reaching across a generation and connecting the current TV landscape with its not-so-distant origins, the original “Fab Five” from “Queer Eye” back when it was on Bravo from 2003-2007 — including when it was originally known…