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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.

Robert Osborne WAS the Movies

For me, Robert Osborne WAS the movies. Movie makers are storytellers, and no one knew or shared more stories about the movies than Robert Osborne, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host who died yesterday at age 84. He worked on…

Hollywood Braces for a Writers Strike

Another writers strike appears to be brewing in Hollywood, where the last time it happened — in 2007 — it shut things down for 100 days. “We’re hearing Hollywood agents far and wide are bracing for another writers’ strike,” The…

Talk About Star Power: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Team Up for New Project

Steven Spielberg has agreed to direct and Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks will star in “The Post,” a film about how The Washington Post brought the Pentagon Papers to light in 1971, Deadline.com reports. The deals are still being negotiated,…

‘Two and a Half Men’ Star Has New ABC Comedy

One of the stars of the hit CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men” resurfaced with a new sitcom project at ABC. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Jon Cryer, a two-time Emmy winner for “Men,” is making his…

ABC’s ‘Kimmel’ Brings Back Popular Feature

ABC’s late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” announced that tonight, Monday, March 6, marks the return to the show of “Mash Up Mondays.” “Jimmy brings two well-known music acts together to form one super, pun-filled band performance,” the announcement notes….

Will Netflix Revive ‘Gilmore Girls’ — Again?

The streaming service Netflix has already brought back the “Gilmore Girls” TV franchise once, for “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” a four-part reboot released last November. Now the word is that Netflix is angling for another “Gilmore Girls” project. The…

New Showtime Project Examines Athlete’s Murder

Showtime has taken the wraps off details about a new program, premiering this month, that examines the 2003 murder of Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy. The program is “Disgraced,” which premieres Friday, March 31, on Showtime. “The revealing documentary…

Robert Osborne, Movie Fan and TCM Fixture, Dead at 84

Robert Osborne, who became a familiar face on television as the longtime Turner Classic Movies host who provided the background on the films presented by the cable channel, has died. The Los Angeles Times reports that Osborne died in New…

Letterman Unloads His Trump Backlog

After being out of the CBS “Late Show” limelight for almost two years, David Letterman appears to have built up a backlog of things to say about Donald Trump. The late-night legend unloaded some of that backlog in a wide-ranging…

Cause of Death Revealed for Actor Bill Paxton

Well-liked actor Bill Paxton, who died Feb. 25 at the age of 61 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, died as a result of a stroke that was triggered by surgery for an aneurysm, TMZ.com reports. “According to the…