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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.

Photographer of ‘Beheaded Trump’ Art Comments on the Controversy — Sort Of

Tyler Shields, who photographed the now infamous session in which Kathy Griffin holds up a prop version of a severed Donald Trump head — a session that got the comedian fired from her CNN gig and drew a torrent of…

MTV Has Its Biggest Series Premiere in Two Years

MTV is celebrating its highest-rated series premiere in two years. The Viacom-owned channel rolled out its “Fear Factor” reboot on Tuesday, with the premiere improving on the time period average by a massive 164% in the target 18-34 demo. “’Fear…

BBC Correspondent Joins ABC News

ABC News President James Goldston made the announcement today that the news division has hired BBC correspondent James Longman. Longman will be working as a foreign correspondent based in the ABC News London bureau starting Monday. “Fluent in Arabic, French…

ESPN Delves Into One of the Greatest Rivalries in Sports — and No, It’s Not the Cavaliers-Warriors

Even with many sports fans’ attention focused on tonight’s renewal of the NBA rivalry between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, ESPN just rolled out plans to delve into a past NBA rivalry that is considered to be one of…

Dashcam Video Shows Incoherent Tiger Woods Being Arrested

Video released by Florida authorities showing the DUI arrest of golf champion Tiger Woods has been making the rounds online and on TV. Woods and authorities appear to be in agreement that Woods had not been drinking, although he appears…

CBS Announces Fall 2017-2018 Primetime Premiere Dates

Press release from CBS, Thursday, June 1, 2017: CBS announced today a multi-phase launch for its new season, with fall 2017-2018 primetime premiere dates that begin with the return of television’s #1 scripted series, THE BIG BANG THEORY, on Sept….

ESPN Films Presents Special Two-Night ’30 for 30′ Documentary Event ‘Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies’

Press release from ESPN, May 31, 2017: There are rivalries, and then there is the Celtics versus the Lakers. “Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies,” a five-hour 30 for 30 film event, chronicles the storied franchises’ epic clashes and relives the Boston-LA…

Hannity Goes After Maddow’s Advertisers

Fox News fixture Sean Hannity, who lost advertisers in a controversy over his coverage of a conspiracy theory about the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich, is fighting back. Fortune reports that Hannity is backing a campaign targeting advertisers on rival…

The More Things Change in TV, the More One Thing Stays the Same

Even in a television landscape defined by rapid change, one thing that has remained constant is the domination of total viewership numbers by CBS, TV writer David Bauder notes in a piece for the AP. Bauder reports that with the 2016-2017…

AMC Places Three New Dramas on Straight-to-Series Track

AMC is moving forward with three new drama projects on the cable net’s straight-to-series track, a model that has increasingly come into favor at AMC in recent years. “The cabler has opened writers rooms for ‘NOS4A2,’ ‘Pandora’ and ‘Silent History’…