PBR Inks Pluto TV Deal Converting RidePass Into Free Streaming Channel (EXCLUSIVE)

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSummer vacation season may have started in the U.K., but the fallout from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport’s Parliamentary Committee report into the economics of music streaming continues to keep much of the British industry hard at work.The report calls for a “complete reset” of the streaming economy and recommends measures, including introducing the right for performers to receive equitable digital music remuneration, and refers the major music

Love Island winner Amber Rose Gill has admitted she likes Scots born barber Dale Mehmet as she watches this year's show.. And as Amber complimented him online, fans reckons that the heavily tattooed Conor McGregor lookalike actually prefers Kaz to his current love interest Chloe.

EXCLUSIVE: Black-ish co-executive producer Robb Chavis has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios. Under the pact, he will develop new half-hour series for the studio.

Love Island Scot Dale Mehmet looks to have taken a step closer to securing a longer stay in the Majorca villa. The Glasgow barber was seen cracking on with Chloe Burrows - and he suggested that she was the only woman that he was getting on with in the villa.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Arika Lisanne Mittman (Paradise Lost) has signed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Multi-hyphenate Marja-Lewis Ryan, showrunner, executive producer, director and writer on The L Word: Generation Q, is expanding her relationship with Showtime. Ryan has signed an overall deal under which she will develop television projects exclusively for the premium television network.

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales company Bankside Film has inked a development overhead deal with Sydney-based production company Causeway Films, which has credits including Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale.

EXCLUSIVE: Al Madrigal is expanding his relationship with CBS Studios. The multi-hyphenate writer, producer and actor has signed a multi-year overall deal with the Studio to develop new series for broadcast, cable and streaming services.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy writer-producer rrica Oyama (Young Rock) has signed a three-year overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Under the pact, Oyama will develop and produce projects for the studio, run by Erin Underhill, aimed at a variety of platforms.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystCNN disclosed the first details of its long-awaited new subscription streaming service Monday, which will launch in the first quarter of 2022 with 8-12 hours of original live content each day.CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker shared some basic information about CNN Plus with his employees in an internal meeting Monday.

Michele Amabile Angermiller Pandora’s ‘Billionaires’ program, which launched in 2018 as a way to mark an artist surpassing more than 1 billion streams, is expanding with the launch of eight new genre stations: pop, country, hip-hop, alternative, dance, classic rock, R&B and hard rock.Each ‘Billionaire’ station features top songs from acts who have crossed the streaming threshold in that genre, with additional tracks and genre stations to be added in the coming months.Said Jason Aldean, the

EXCLUSIVE: The Last Police, an adaptation of Ben Winters’ sci-fi mystery novel The Last Policeman, has received a pilot order at Fox.

Turns out the grass is greener up in Cupertino, at least figuratively and literally for Misha Green.

EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks, the Buenos Aires-based sales agency, is busy on the ground here in Cannes and has inked a series of significant deals on key titles from its slate.

It’s no wonder people can’t walk past without staring when they see Clelia Murphy and Claudia Carroll together. Whether they are out for a coffee and a chat or wheeling suitcases through the airport en route to their next adventure, it’s a sight Fair City lovers thought they would never see.

Michael Starrbury continues his collaboration with Netflix as he inks a multi-year overall deal with the streamer to develop new series programming.

Fans of Fair City will be devastated to hear that the soap won’t have its usual three episodes this week. Instead, only one of the scheduled episodes will air.

Naman Ramachandran Richie Mehta, creator of International Emmy winning Netflix series “Delhi Crime,” has boarded veteran Indian producer Ronnie Screwvala’s series on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, as writer, director and showrunner.Screwvala, whose producer credits include “The Lunchbox” and “The Happening,” was formerly the head of Disney India and has several films in various stages of development and production.Produced by Screwvala’s RSVP and Ramesh Krishnamoorthy’s Global One Studios, the