Paramount+ streaming service coming to the UK next month

TWICE singer Nayeon has announced that she will be making her solo debut next month.The announcement was made via TWICE’s social media pages earlier today (May 19) at midnight KST. Nayeon’s debut solo project will be a mini-album, titled ‘IM NAYEON’.

Tom Cruise revealed "Top Gun: Maverick" would "never" make its theatrical debut on a streaming network despite years of setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cruise and the "Top Gun" team touched down at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday afternoon for the European premiere, a spectacle that included eight fighter jets flying high above the Palais, with red and blue smoke streaming from behind to match the colors of the French flag.

John Peel – once branded by NME as “the king of the live session” – will be sold at an auction in London next month.Before his death in 2004, Peel amassed a weighty collection spanning over 26,000 LPs, 40,000 seven-inch singles and countless CDs. A selection of those, as well as various items of memorabilia, will be auctioned off at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge location on Tuesday June 14.

Deftones have announced details of an intimate London show to take place next month – see full details below and get your tickets here.On June 13, the week after the band play a huge slot at Download Festival, Chino Moreno and co. will head to the capital to play the Kentish Town Forum.Tickets for the gig at the Forum, which will see Deftones being supported by Grandson, will go on sale on Friday (May 20) at 9am local time.

South Park TV film will officially be dropping next month.South Park: The Streaming Wars has been confirmed for a June 1 release date on Paramount+, as part of a 14-film deal between creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with ViacomCBS.Streaming Wars is the third film in the deal, with a fourth one due for release later this summer.A description obtained by The Hollywood Reporter reads: “Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills, while an epic conflict unfolds and threatens South Park’s very existence.”Take a look at the 15-second teaser:The first made-for-TV film was called Post Covid and premiered last November. It was followed by The Return of Covid, which aired in December.South Park recently announced a 25th anniversary live concert featuring performances from Primus and Ween.The special “one night only” event will take place at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado on August 10.The show is set to “celebrate 25 years of the music of South Park” with Parker and Stone also due to be in attendance on the night.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeJames Corden is heading home — to visit, as part of a week-long trip to Blighty for “The Late Late Show” on CBS. This will mark the fourth time “The Late Late Show with James Corden” has filmed from the U.K., but marks the first major initiative for the show since Corden announced that he would depart next year.“The Late Late Show” will broadcast four episodes from Freemasons’ Hall in Central London, marking the show’s first time in that venue. The episodes will air on Monday, June 27, through Thursday June 30 — in the show’s normal 12:37 a.m.

Aldi and Lidl are set to face a new rival as another European discounted supermarket will be launching in the UK in early summer.

fiscal second-quarter earnings conference call Wednesday afternoon, an investor asked CEO Bob Chapek what was holding the company back from expanding it as an all-in-one service. Chapek said that Disney is trying to preserve the “huge” cash flow generated by its linear networks before jumping into a direct to consumer (DTC) decision like that.“At the same time, we’re very conscious of our ability to go more aggressively into the [direct to consumer] area of ESPN,” said Chapek.

EXCLUSIVE: Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, have partnered on the newest Shudder Original Film, Destroy All Neighbors. From music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes and starring Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produce.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTelevisaUnivision reached a deal with Hemisphere Media Group to acquire Pantaya, a U.S. streaming platform for Spanish-language movies and TV series, picking up the rival streamer to bolster the ViX service.The companies didn’t disclose a value for the Pantaya deal.

Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell said he's planning his entire wedding to fiancée Lauren Silverman all by himself.

Simon Cowell is reportedly set to marry Lauren Silverman next month after the pair got engaged at the start of the year.The music mogul, 62, has been in a relationship with 44 year old Lauren since 2013 and he popped the question in Barbados a few months ago.The wedding of the pair is set to take place in London and despite Simon previously keeping quiet about plans he is very much a hands-on groom. He told The Sun: “I am planning it all, otherwise I know what will happen - there will be 600 people and it'll get out of control, like my 50th birthday party.” He also admitted that the bride-to-be is unaware of the date: “No one knows when it's going to be - that'll be a surprise, even for Lauren.” There will be “no arguments” over the guest list, as Simon has said he will be inviting whoever he likes, and says he has a laid back approach to the wedding, as it “seems like too much hassle”.

Simon Cowell is reportedly set to marry fiancée Lauren Silverman in an extravagant ceremony next month.The Britain's Got Talent judge, 62, proposed to Lauren, 44, with who he shares eight year old son Eric, on a romantic holiday in Barbados at the start of the year, and Simon recently explained he would be taking control of the wedding plans. And just five months of engagement, the music mogul is said to believe that there's "no point in delaying" their nuptials.

Simon Cowell is getting married next month. The 'Britain's Got Talent' star got engaged to Lauren Silverman - with whom he has eight-year-old son Eric - late last year and it's now been revealed they will tie the knot in front of friends and family in London in just a few weeks time. A source told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: “Simon cannot wait to have Lauren as his wife and didn’t see the point in delaying it.

Paramount+ is to launch in the UK and South Korea next month and will be in India next year, Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish has revealed in the past hour.

More than two years into its run at Fox Corp., Tubi is ramping up in original programming, planning 100 new film and TV titles over the next year as viewership continues to rise.

Happy Endings was only on the air for three seasons, but Elisha Cuthbert is thankful that the sitcom even reached that milestone.

i news on Wednesday in which she wrote, “The competition for eyeballs is fiercer than ever – and we’ve got to ensure British broadcasters can hold their own in this fight.”She notes that the rise of “American streaming giants” over the last year has left linear channels such as the BBC and ITV with 20% less viewers. Her office has published a broadcasting white paper that would impose content regulations on U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorComcast and Charter Communications, the two biggest cable operators in the U.S., are joining forces in the streaming wars.The two companies on Wednesday announced a 50-50 joint venture to develop and offer a next-generation streaming platform on a variety of branded 4K streaming devices and smart TVs to reach customers in major markets across the country with the platform.Comcast will license Flex, its aggregated streaming platform and hardware to the JV, contribute the retail business for XClass TVs, and contribute Xumo, the free, ad-supported streaming service it acquired in 2020. Charter will make an initial contribution of $900 million, funded over multiple years.The XClass TVs will be available through national retail partners and potentially direct from Comcast and Charter to provide more customer choice.