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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.

NFL Network Introduces Three New Hall of Fame Analysts

With the NFL season about to start up, the NFL Network, which is heading into its 15th season, held a special event last week to celebrate the three newest members of its broadcast team: newly inducted Hall of Famers LaDainian…

Aretha Franklin Scores a Knockout in Philly as She Winds Down Her Touring Career

Soul legend Aretha Franklin took the stage at the Mann Center in Philadelphia for what will be one of her last shows as a touring artist, and delivered what veteran critic Roger Friedman, writing for Showbiz411, called “a knockout show…

Beloved Horror Director Tobe Hooper Dead at 74

Tobe Hooper, a pioneer of the horror genre, has died. The filmmaker who taught movie audiences how terrifying a chainsaw can be in the wrong hands in the low-budget 1974 sleeper hit “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” died Saturday in…

Amazon Offers a Peek at ‘One Mississippi’

Season two of Amazon’s offbeat original series “One Mississippi” is about to premiere, and the streaming service released a two-minute trailer, which you can watch below. “Love is in the air in when we pick back up with Tig (Tig…

Controversial NFL Star Lands at Fox

Fox Sports is bringing aboard an NFL standout who has polarized fans for years and whose career was put on hold while he spent 21 months in federal prison. Former Pro Bowl quarterback Michael Vick will begin his new job…

New York Times Pulls Book From Best-Seller List After Suspicions Arise Over Its Ranking Atop the List

A novel that reached the top spot on a New York Times best-seller list was removed from the list by the paper after suspicions surfaced over the book’s ranking. The AP reports that the book, “Handbook for Mortals,” by Lani…

Cable’s Top Unscripted Franchise Expands

Plans are now set to expand the reality franchise that holds down the top three spots in the rankings among unscripted cable shows in the key 18-49 demo. VH1 announced today that its new “Love & Hip Hop” series, “Love…

Showtime Sports Lines Up Exclusive Content, Artists to Complement Saturday’s Big Mayweather-McGregor Fight

Showtime announced a lineup of artists and exclusive content that will be a part of the digital programming the pay cabler is building around this Saturday’s pay-per-view mega-event featuring the boxing showdown between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “The Notorious” Conor…

Bill Nye, the ‘Science Guy,’ Sues Disney for $37 Million

TV presenter, engineer and science educator William Nye — widely known as “Bill Nye the Science Guy” — has filed a fraud suit against Disney that some media outlets are valuing at more than $37 million. “Bill filed docs Thursday…

TNT Pulls Plug on Drama Project

TNT has backed out of a drama project that would have co-starred “Game of Thrones” alum Tom Wlaschiha. TVLine reports that the cable channel has scrapped “The Deep Mad Dark.” Set in Detroit, the project was to be produced by…