On Friday, April 13th, YouTube will officially launch BlackBoxTV, a new online television station dedicated to the horror genre. The folks at Bloody Disgusting sat down with BlackBoxTV creator Tony E. Valenzuela and producer Anthony E. Zuiker (CSI) to learn what sort of chills the new channel will serve up. Here are a few of the interview highlights:

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Music reality shows are all the rage, and OurStage.com, an music site featuring over 200,000 undiscovered artists, plans to get into the game with a new web series featuring music industry experts and top-ranked musicians who hope to make it big.

“With the flood of reality music shows that primarily focus on karaoke singers, we want to use this very popular medium to showcase real artists who have a bonafide shot at a long-term career once they get discovered,” said Ben Campbell, OurStage.com Founder and CEO.

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The Steve Jobs biography that everyone has been anticipating will be available sooner than expected. Originally slated for a 2012 release, Simon & Shuster now reveals that the book by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson will be released October 24th.

Plus, Sony Pictures is already trying to buy the rights for the authorized biography so the studio can make a movie.

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It seems Netflix won’t split its DVD and video streaming services after all.

Last month, CEO Reed Hastings announced that Netflix would push the company’s DVD rental service to a new website called Qwikster while Netflix would be reserved for streaming only. Under the new plan, customers who wished to stream movies and watch DVDs would have to maintain two separate accounts and pay two separate charges, a proposal that infuriated many Netflix customers.

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Amazon has inked a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to allow Amazon Prime subscribers to stream Fox movies and television shows, the companies announced today. 

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced last night that the popular video rental service will now split into two separate companies, one for online video streaming and one for DVD by mail. The announcement comes two months after Netflix said it would begin charging separately for the two services and raise existing prices by 60%, a move that infuriated many customers.

“I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation,” Hastings said on The Netflix Blog Sunday night. “We realized that streaming and DVD by mail are really becoming two different businesses, with very different cost structures, that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.”

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Reading Rainbow, the popular children’s television show that encouraged kids to read books, was shut down in 2006, much to pretty much everyone’s dismay. It had aired for over 20 years on PBS, but the network’s financial troubles were the nail in the Rainbow’s coffin. Now, fans of the show will be delighted to hear that it’s coming back – although, not on television.

Reading Rainbow will make its return to the media world via iPad app.

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Categories: Entertainment | Gadgets and Gizmos

September is National Coupon Month, a perfect time for TLC to debut the second season of Extreme Couponing. And though extreme couponers are not particularly popular with cashiers or other shoppers (thanks to the long lines and hassle they bring), there’s one breed of couponer that is particularly loathed: the shelf clearer.

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It’s a pretty big blow to Netflix – users will soon lose access to new movies from two of Hollywood’s biggest studios, Disney Studios and Sony Pictures. In a deal that broke down yesterday, Starz Entertainment said that it will end a distribution deal with Netflix that provided the streaming service with movies from those studios. That news sent Netflix stock plunging 9% overnight.

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Comic books sales have significantly suffered over the past five years so DC Comics developed a plan to save its superheroes from a dastardly demise. The New 52 hopes to gain new readers and refresh the perspectives of former fans by starting all the storylines over at issue Number 1.

73-year-old Superman is whisked back to his 20s, while Batman and Robin become brand new partners. Will this bold move make a difference in the decline?

DC Comics has already received 200,000 pre-orders for the new Number 1 issue of Justice League, but some longtime fans are so far unimpressed.

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