The pastor of a Gainesville church said late this afternoon that he is canceling plans to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday. In return, Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones said, he's been assured that the controversial Islamic center planned near Ground Zero in New York City will be moved elsewhere. But no such agreement exists, said Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida. And CNN reported that the developer of the New York project is denying any plans to move. Musri has met with Jones repeatedly in the past couple of days …

Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution is beginning to make dates with key TV station groups to pitch a new syndicated talk show featuring Dr. Drew Pinsky for fall 2011, according to industry sources. Pinsky, known as Dr. Drew, and Warner Bros.' Telepictures announced in April that they were developing the show. Dr. Drew is best known for hosting reality shows like VH1's "Celebrity Rehab." Earlier this year, Pinsky, an internist who is board certified in addiction medicine, was being considered for "Lifechangers," a spinoff of Warner Bros.' Extra. But that show didn't pan out. The new show is …

BS and TNT have greenlit four pilots including a remake of the classic nighttime soap "Dallas," which ran for 13 years starting in 1978. The "Dallas pilot was ordered by TNT. It comes to the network from Warner Horizon Television and executive producer Cynthia Cidre. TNT also ordered an untitled police drama from "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" screenwriter Allan Loeb and Lionsgate Television as well as "Perception" from ABC Studios, which follows an "eccentric neuroscientist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve cases."

Spanish-language broadcaster Univision made history last week, beating all other broadcast networks in the coveted 18-49 demographic for the first time. Univision also managed to beat both Fox and the CW in viewers for the week. It is rerun season on Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and the CW and the last week of August and first week of September are slow, but it's still an impressive performance, says the Los Angeles Times. Univision's big shows include its telenovelas "Hasta que el Dinero Nos Separe" ("For Love or Money") and "Soy Tu Dueña" ("Woman of Steel"). The network also …

Chairman and publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, stressed the need to take risks and not be afraid of failure in the quest to find a business model that can adequately support high quality journalism. The newspaper is due to introduce a metered paywall in early 2011. Readers will be allowed to access a certain number of articles free each month, then will be asked to pay. "This has the benefit of allowing our millions of readers who come to us through search engine to still find our content," Sulzberger specified, while those who use the site …

Overcrowding is a perennial problem or, to be more exact, biennial problem for broadcasters and their advertisers. Every even-numbered year, money from candidates, parties and advocacy groups soars, swelling the top line, but creating a headache for station managers that have to cope with excess demand. Evan Tracey, who tracks political spending at the Campaign Media Analysis Group, believes it will approach a record $3 billion this year with TV stations getting most of it. According to BIA/Kelsey, TV station revenue will rebound to $18.5 billion this year. If $2.5 billion of that is political, the category represents …

Fox has picked up a second season of "MasterChef," the standout reality show of the summer. The series, about amateur chefs competing under the watchful eye of Gordon Ramsay, is the first clear-cut success story for summer reality TV since "Wipeout." It is unclear whether Fox will wait until next summer to broadcast the second season of the series. Last week, NBC ordered a sixth season of its summer staple, "America's Got Talent." And CBS, according to Joe Adalian of New York magazine, has renewed "Big Brother" for a 13th season, albeit without an official announcement yet.

NPR just launched its $3 million local journalism effort Project Argo: 12 sites hosted by 14 stations, each zeroing in on a topic of specific interest to that community -- local music in Philly, education and technology in the Bay Area, climate change on Cape Cod. Now another clock starts ticking: The pilot project is funded only through fiscal year 2011. NPR wants to show that with the right resources, stations can create beats of value to the community and, in turn, increase their own audience and value by using the Internet as a platform for original content. Those …

Campbell Soup kicked off the first umbrella campaign for all of its U.S. soups. Campbell is spending more than $100 million on the new effort, significantly more than what it had spent on individual campaigns in the past. According to Nielsen, the company spent $236 million advertising its U.S. soup business last year, excluding online, and $97 million through June of this year. The effort, which spans television, print, radio, online and in-store media, is part of the soup maker's strategy to reposition its products in the simple meals category. The first spot denotes that eating Campbell's contributes to …

British TV host Piers Morgan will take over Larry King's prime-time hour with "a candid, in-depth newsmaker interview program" starting in January. His new show was not named in the CNN release. Morgan is best known to American viewers as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent." "Piers has made his name posing tough questions to public figures, holding them accountable for their words and deeds," said CNN-US President Jon Klein. "He is able to look at all aspects of the news with style and humor with an occasional good laugh in the process." Morgan's show …