"Researchers from Kyushu University and colleagues report that a specially trained 8-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine is able to detect colorectal cancer among patients with up to 98 percent accuracy, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. We’ll summarize this for you, put…
A January ratings plunge for Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News leads to the question of whether the talk show host is losing his popularity, writes Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. "Glenn Beck" averaged 1.8 million viewers in January, representing a…
WIth the weather so bad in so much of the U.S., on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, "The Weather Channel (TWC) set a new one day digital record and plans the most live coverage ever in the network’s history," TWC announced. The…
Jim Early, a blogger who was sued last year by "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett and CBS, alleges his source for leaking secret information about the show was "Survivor" villain Russell Hantz, the New York Post reports. "Survivor" cast members must…
"The Cape," a struggling midseason series on NBC, has gotten its order cut to 10 episodes instead of the initial 13, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. The show debuted in January with fewer than 9 million viewers watching…
An Oscar-winning director who is also a cult favorite has closed a deal to direct the pilot episode of an untitled medical drama at CBS, reports our friend Joe Adalian at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. It’s Jonathan Demme, who won…
"This morning [Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011], Rupert Murdoch will finally unveil The Daily, a news app that he hopes will put his News Corporation front and center in the digital newsstand of the near future," write Jeremy W. Peters and…
Comcast and Time Warner have agreed to a streaming deal that will place networks TBS, TNT,. Cartoon Network and CNN online, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, calling the arrangement a first-of-its-kind deal. The contract is part of the companies’ vision…
The CW has picked up four pilots, whose topics range from zombies to attorneys, reports TVLine.com. "Awakening" follows two sisters who "come of age" during a zombie uprising, while "Hart of Dixie," from Josh Schwartz of "Chuck" and Stephanie Savage…
Carson Daly has closed a deal to host NBC’s "The Voice," which is set to go head-to-head against Ryan Seacrest and "American Idol" in the spring, reports Deadline.com. In this article, Nellie Andreeva writes, "The show, in which contestants vie…