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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.

AMC Greenlights Two New Series

AMC, which has been developing programs under its “scripts-to-series” model, just greenlighted two new series, “61st Street” and “Kevin Can F**k Himself.” The channel’s “scripts-to-series” model opens writers’ rooms to develop potential series that can move straight to series. Worldwide…

NBC Debuts Must Hear TV

This past summer NBC introduced a new ad format it was selling, called “Must hear TV.” At the time, Jeanine Poggi of Ad Age wrote, “The way it works is the screen going out of an episode of a TV…

Hit Drama Series to Wrap

A successful cable drama series that has received critical praise over the run of its three seasons will wrap with a fourth and final season. TNT announced plans today to bring “Claws” to a conclusion. “For the past three seasons,…

WarnerMedia Expands Brett Weitz’ Role to General Manager of TBS, TNT, and Now truTV

Press release from WarnerMedia, Oct. 1, 2019: Kevin Reilly, President, TBS, TNT, and truTV, and Chief Content Officer, HBO Max today announced that Brett Weitz, general manager of TBS & TNT will now also take on oversight of truTV, reporting…

Byron Allen Reaches Agreement to Purchase 11 Television Stations From USA Television for $290 Million

Press release from Entertainment Studios, Oct. 1, 2019: Entertainment Studios, one of the largest independent producers and distributors of film and television, with 64 shows on the air, and owner of nine 24-hour HD television networks now serving nearly 160…

AMC Greenlights Two New Series, ’61st Street’ and ‘Kevin Can F**k Himself’

Press release from AMC, Oct. 1, 2019: AMC today announced that it has greenlit two new series, thriller and courtroom drama “61st Street,” from BAFTA-winner Peter Moffat (“Criminal Justice” “The Night Of” “Your Honor”) and executive produced by Michael B….

WarnerMedia Appoints Execs to Run HBO Max

WarnerMedia has named a team of executives who will work under Otter Media CEO Tony Goncalves to run the company’s HBO Max streaming service. “HBO Max is slated to launch in the spring of 2020, with some 10,000 hours of…

‘Star Wars’ Hero in Twitter War With Ivanka Trump’s Family

A Twitter post by Ivanka Trump, which you can see below, sparked a social media feeding frenzy after Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill lashed out about the post. The Ivanka Trump tweet, posted Saturday, shows her youngest son, Theodore, 3,…

CNN Interview Cited in Giuliani Subpoena for Impeachment Inquiry

Former New York City Mayor and current Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was hit with a subpoena requesting a number of documents as House Democrats pursue an impeachment inquiry, Deadline reports. “In seeking the documents by an October 15 deadline,…

Report Lists Shows That Just Had Their Lowest-Rated Season Premieres Ever

A new report sounds the alarm about plummeting levels of viewership for broadcast and cable shows, noting that many series that have recently rolled out their season premieres are delivering their all-time lows for a premiere. “Same-day Nielsen ratings for…