UK music streaming faces scrutiny from competition watchdog

ITV Secures Adele Special 

EXCLUSIVE: Popcornflix, the streaming service owned by Crackle parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, has acquired its first original documentary feature, Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman.

Comcast has set a streaming distribution deal that will put its Xfinity Stream and Sky Go apps on Apple TV and integrate Apple TV+ on a number of Comcast platforms.

Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Jon Wright’s (Grabbers, Robot Overlords) horror film, Unwelcome, with plans to release it in U.S. theaters on March 17, 2022.

Duran Duran are one of the most important bands of the new-wave movement of the 1980s, and show no sign of slowing down. 

Primo, a coming-of-age comedy from The Good Place creator Mike Schur and The Ringer writer Shea Serrano, has been ordered to series at IMDb TV.

which manages BTS, did not disclose the financial terms of the deal but said Universal and its American record label Interscope would distribute and market BTS’ music in the United States and other regions.The deal expands the entertainment company’s existing partnership with Universal, as it seeks to boost the popularity of K-pop music globally.BTS, which shot to global fame after the release of its English songs such as “Butter” and “Permission to Dance,” is the first K-pop group to ever

William Earl Warner Bros. Pictures’ $160 million sci-fi spectacle “Dune” could be facing a fate worse than giant sandworms: online leakers.As confirmed by Variety, at least three major illegal streaming sites are hosting HD quality streaming copies of “Dune,” complete with bells and whistles such as English, Danish, Spanish and Arabic subtitles.

EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm Gladwell and his podcast production company Pushkin Industries have boarded a BBC audio series that tells the story of Elon Musk.

Discovery+ has picked up North American streaming rights for Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions’ Handmade: Good With Wood format.

Spotify give a fair deal to users, and comes after dramatic changes over the past decade in the way music is consumed.Streaming now accounts for more than 80 per cent of all music listened to in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the music industry had evolved “almost beyond recognition”.

coronavirus pandemic.The trade body, which represents the collective voice of the UK music industry, has laid out the stark findings in their newly published annual report, This Is Music 2021.According to the report, 69,000 jobs in the UK music industry have been lost during the pandemic, with employment figures plunging by 35 per cent in 2020.Other findings include how the UK music industry’s economic contribution fell by a record 46 per cent (from £5.8bn to £3.1bn) in 2020, while music exports

British singer-songwriter Adele has returned in style, setting a new Spotify single-day record for streams on her forthcoming album’s first single, “Easy On Me.”

Naman Ramachandran Leading British independent filmmakers expressed some frank views on gatekeepers acting as a barrier to independent cinema at a BFI London Film Festival panel discussion on Tuesday.The panel consisted of Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh (“Secrets & Lies”), Oscar winner Asif Kapadia (“Amy”) and Golden Bear winner Michael Winterbottom (“In This World”).

Discovery+, which has launched in the UK, Europe and the U.S., will light up in Canada on October 19.

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will round off a trilogy of heavyweight tussles on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Blue Bloods star Tom Selleck and former West End performer Jillie Mack are among the most low key couples in Hollywood. The A-list Magnum P.I. star has been married to British born Jillie for more than three decades, however very little is known about their romance. The couple met when Tom was in London filming the movie Lassiter, and his future wife caught his eye when he saw the stage production of Cats on the West End. Here’s everything you need to know about Jillie.

Bob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan has called for more diversity both on and off-stage in live music – as well as more local support bands and regional shows.Providing the opening speech at the Music Venue Trust’s NME-partnered Venues Day event in London earlier this week (October 5), the singer of the UK punk duo hailed the UK’s grassroots gig spaces for giving bands like his a “shelter” and fostering communities.Vylan also said that we should “never take that relationship between venue, artist and