There's a new boss in charge at the Discovery Network, and he's anxious to get rid of mega-sharks, mermaids and man-eating snakes. Rich Ross, a longtime Disney executive who began this week as ...

Mermaid Echo, a popular event for families in which a live mermaid swims in the Reiman Aquarium tank at Discovery World is back. Mermaid Echo, a popular event for families in which a live mermaid ...

Last we checked in with the Discovery Channel, it had just acquired a new president who promised that his channel would stop trying to trick children and stoned people into believing in mermaids and ...

Discovery Communications has promoted the guy behind Animal Planet’s controversial mermaid documentaries to oversee a newly created Original Content Group for the whole company of networks. As EVP, ...

There were many who said this day would never come -- Discovery Channel is finally moving away from creating fake Mermaid documentaries and trying to film men eaten alive by anacondas. Why exactly is ...

I caught an incredibly bad two-hour “documentary” on the Discovery Channel last night that, in a nut shell, encapsulates many of our societal foibles. That program was “Mermaids: The Body Found.” ...