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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.

Meet This Summer’s Most Unlikely Hero

An unlikely hero with a supersized sidekick is expected to make an impact this summer after Netflix today unveiled Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja,” with its young star An Seo Hyun as the heroic Mija. The film’s title is also the name…

New Stephen King TV Series Bows This Month

A trailer released today for a TV series premiering this month based on Stephen King’s “The Mist” is appropriately scary and creepy. The series version of “The Mist” from Spike TV premieres Thursday, June 22. “When the residents of Bridgeville,…

Cavaliers-Warriors Trilogy: NBA Finals by the Numbers

With the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors facing off for the third consecutive year in the NBA Finals, ESPN and ABC Sports announced today that the viewer numbers are up from a year ago. Sunday’s Game 2 on ABC…

A&E Network Announces Two-Part Documentary ‘Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G.’ Premiere Moves to Monday, Sept. 4

Press release from A&E, June 5, 2017: A&E Network will premiere the definitive documentary “Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G.” as the inaugural project airing under the recently relaunched ‘Biography’ banner. The three-hour, deeply personal biography will allow the late…

Comedy Central Announces Roy Wood Jr. as New Host of ‘This Is Not Happening’

Press release from Comedy Central, June 2, 2017: Roy Wood Jr. has been named the new host of Comedy Central’s wild storytelling series, This Is Not Happening, which will film its fourth season this weekend in Hollywood for a fall…

ABC Faces Hacking Threat

The ABC Broadcast Network appears to be in the crosshairs of a hacker who has already pulled off a high-profile hack of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black.” The hacker or group of hackers known as The Dark Overlord issued…

Upcoming TV Movie Will Feature a String of Unlikely Cameos, With Fabio, Charo, Olivia Newton-John and Three NBC ‘Today’ Hosts Among Them

Details have surfaced about a TV movie that’s coming up this summer that is likely to get a lot of attention. The movie is “Sharknado 5: Global Swarming,” which is set to roll out Aug. 6 on Syfy. The long…

Singer Brandy Rushed to Hospital After Apparently Losing Consciousness Aboard Plane

R&B singer and actress Brandy Norwood was hospitalized today after she became ill on a plane at LAX, KABC-TV reports. “Officers and firefighter-paramedics responded about 7 a.m. to a report of a person who was ‘unconscious or almost unconscious’ shortly…

TV Has Its Highest-Rated Drama in Eight Weeks

A TV show airing on broadcast in the past week was television’s highest-rated drama telecast in eight weeks. That’s the word today from Fox, which says the season finale of “Empire” set the mark. The network cites Live+3 ratings, noting…

Disney CEO Robert Iger Resigns From Trump Advisory Council

Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., has resigned from Donald Trump’s business advisory council. Iger announced on Twitter that he was making the move in response to Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. In…