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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.

It Turns Out Someone’s Counting the Number of Jokes Each Late-Night Host Has Made About Trump — Guess Who Leads the Pack?

CBS’s Stephen Colbert may have gotten in trouble for a joke about Donald Trump, but when it comes to which of the late-night hosts is targeting Trump the most … why, it’s Colbert again. The AP cites a study by…

CBS Posts Strong First-Quarter Results

CBS Corp. unveiled its first-quarter financial results today in a conference call with investors, with boss Leslie Moonves touting strong results even though year-ago comparisons were tough given that the earlier period included Super Bowl 50. “The company said first-quarter…

Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination, Harassment and Intimidation at Viacom’s BET

The Viacom-owned cable channel BET has been hit with a lawsuit that alleges the network has a “mysoginistic culture” that “marginalizes, demeans, and undervalues women.” Variety reports that the wrongful termination suit was filed by Zola Mashariki, the former executive…

Colbert Responds to Backlash on CBS’s ‘Late Show’

Stephen Colbert opened Wednesday night’s monologue on CBS’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” with comments referencing the controversy he triggered on Monday’s show. As we reported previously, Colbert came under fire for a string of insults he hurled at Donald…

Morning Hosts Get Engaged

Two co-hosts of a morning TV show got engaged over the weekend. The New York Post’s Page Six cites sources confirming that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who host “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, are set to be married after Scarborough…

Matt Lauer Says Trump Doesn’t Hate the Media — and Then Gets Pranked Bigtime

NBC’s Matt Lauer talked about Donald Trump’s uneasy relationship with the media during an appearance on “The Ellen Show,” saying Trump has always actually “loved the media more than most people.” The “Today” fixture added that he thinks the friction between…

Singer’s Ex-Manager Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Millions From Her (and No, It’s Not Ironic)

A business manager who stole more than $7 million from a popular alt-rock singer and others was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison. The AP reports that Jonathan Todd Schwartz, who stole the bulk of the money from…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Gets Involved After Politician Knocks Himself Unconscious While Laughing at ‘Veep’

After news broke that a politiican had suffered an injury while laughing at ‘Veep,” the show’s star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, took to social media and wound up in an exchange with the politician. The U.K. publication The Guardian reports that Graham…

Russia Pulls the Plug on ‘Simpsons’ Episode

An episode of Fox’s animated series “The Simpsons” that had been scheduled to air on the Russian TV network 2×2 now will not be airing after the episode, “Looking for Mr. Goodbart,” came under fire from the Russian Orthodox Church, according…

HBO to Replace ‘Game of Thrones’ With … More ‘Game of Thrones’ — Four New ‘Thrones’-Related Series in Development

HBO’s megahit “Game of Thrones” will soon be winding down, but that doesn’t mean the pay-cable channel is ready to let go. Far from it, in fact. Deadline.com reports that the “succession plan” at HBO includes developing four new series that…