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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.

HBO on Defensive After Slavery Drama Sparks Huge Outcry

HBO was trending on social media over the weekend but not in a good way. The pay-cable channel’s upcoming slavery drama “Confederate” became the focus of a social media campaign urging HBO to abandon the project. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live…

HBO Shows, ‘Game of Thrones’ Material Leaked Online After Pay Cabler Is Hit by Hackers

HBO has been hit with a cyberattack, resulting in upcoming episodes of at least two HBO series being leaked online along with written material from next week’s fourth installment of the current season of “Game of Thrones,” EW.com reports. HBO…

The Vanishing TV Set: Televisions Are Disappearing From U.S. Homes

Data from the Energy Information Administration confirms that the television set is beginning to disappear from American households. “After years of insisting it wasn’t so, the TV Industrial Complex now admits that it’s contracting: The number of people paying for…

CBS Corp. Forms Partnership With Imagine Television

In a deal announced today by CBS Corp. Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves and Imagine Entertainment Chairman Brian Grazer, the companies revealed that Imagine Television Studios and CBS Corp. have entered into a four-year pact to co-finance and co-produce new…

Naked Passenger Disrupts Flight

Passengers on a flight out of Las Vegas on budget carrier Spirit Airlines — which bills itself as the “home of the bare fare” — witnessed an unusual incident over the weekend as a passenger reportedly stripped naked while the…

ABC Makes Key Executive Appointments

ABC named a new executive vice president of marketing for ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios as part of a number of executive moves in the company’s marketing operation. Rebecca Daugherty was named to oversee the department as EVP. Channing Dungey,…

Trump Communications Director Gets the Boot After Profanity-Laced Tirade

Donald Trump is removing White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci following a crude verbal tirade by Scaramucci targeing senior members of the White House staff, The New York Times reports. The report cites three unnamed sources close to the situation….

NBC Adjusts Fall Premiere Schedule

NBC revised the schedule for its fall premieres, giving one of the network’s choicest slots to the sophomore sitcom “The Good Place.” The comedy from Mike Schur, starring Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper, will now premiere with a special…

‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ Adds Series Regular

The cast of the CBS drama series “NCIS: Los Angeles” has added a series regular who will be introduced in the season nine premiere. CBS announced that Nia Long will play the team’s new executive assistant director, Shay Mosely. The…

Best-Selling Novel to Become TV Series

A best-selling novel that was selected as an NPR Best Book of 2016 is headed to television as a half-hour drama series. Starz announced plans today to develop a project based on “Sweetbitter,” by L.A.-based author Stephanie Danier. Danier has…