Comcast Boosts Q1 Profit Despite Slowing Broadband, Ad Sales; Peacock U.S. Subs Rise to 22 Million

Disney+ Hotstar has announced School of Lies, a Hindi missing child drama from BBC Studios India.

Martin Lewis has shared essential energy need-to-knows ahead of Ofgem confirming the new price cap on Thursday morning. The industry regulator is expected to announce a £450 drop to its energy price cap from July 1 amid warnings that consumers are likely to feel little benefit to their household finances.

A man has admitted raping and murdering Scots mum Jill Barclay in Aberdeen.

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has confirmed that she is battling Stage 3 breast cancer.

Derek McInnes believes his side have what it takes to avoid the dreaded drop.

The race for third place in the Scottish Premiership is on the home straight.

A person was found dead on the train tracks at a station in Greater Manchester last night.

Police have issued a series of tips to Lanarkshire residents following increased reports of break ins and thefts of tools from parked vehicles across the area.

Strictly Come Dancing stars and Gemma Atkinson have been among the first to rush to show their public support for Amy Dowden after she revealed she has breast cancer.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor In one scene in Mona Achache’s “Little Girl Blue,” which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section, the director is seen insisting that lead actor Marion Cotillard stays in character even on her tea break, to the extent that she must drink tea noisily as her character, Carole – based on the French filmmaker’s own mother – used to do. Does this suggest a manipulative relationship between director and actor? Cotillard disagrees. “I don’t see a director and an actor as being in relationships of manipulation. It’s more a collaboration,” she tells Variety. “It happened to me only once where I felt that I was being manipulated by a director, and I really didn’t like that.”

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Martin Scorsese is executive producing “Escape,” the next film from Spanish writer-director Rodrigo Cortés, who burst onto the international scene directing Ryan Reynolds in the 2010 Sundance hit “Buried.” Set to go into production at the end of May, Cortés’ first Spanish-language film since his debut feature, 2007 madcap dark comedy “The Contestant,” “Escape” stars Mario Casas, a Spanish Academy Award Goya winner for 2020’s “Cross the Line.”  One of Spain’s biggest film-TV stars, Casas leads a top-notch Spanish cast in “Escape” which takes in Anna Castillo (“The Olive Tree,” “Holy Camp!”), José Garcia (“Bastille Day”), Guillermo Toledo (“I’m So Excited”), Josep Maria Pou (“The Realm”), Blanca Portillo (“Maixabel”), and Jose Sacristán (“Velvet”).

Mae Muller is undoubtedly one of the most promising female talents in pop right now. Fresh off the back of her first-ever Official Top 10 single, the UK's Eurovision 2023 entry I Wrote A Song, Mae's booked and busy at festivals from Birmingham to Brighton Pride, has a headline tour in the diary and has just announced her debut album.

While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now.

The wait is finally over. Beyoncé's much-anticipated RENAISSANCE World Tour is officially under way, with the superstar having kicking things off at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.

Susanna Reid has confirmed that she hosted her last episode of Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (May 24) as she heads off on a break. The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV news programme alongside Richard Madeley when she made the announcement.

Emmerdale fans have said they were left in 'disbelief' as they continued to watch the ITV soap's latest affair unfold. Earlier this week, Wendy Posner and Liam Cavanagh let the excitement get the better of them after hiding their hidden interest from their friends and loved ones.

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has shared the news that she has breast cancer. The dancer has shared her personal news, which she only received last week, in the hopes to raise awareness of the disease and help others going through their own diagnoses.

North-West based IT Services & Solutions firm Nviron, recently delivered a series of education-focused events, raising awareness of the importance of 1:1 device programmes and the Microsoft Ecosystem within UK education establishments.

A woman was taken to hospital after police were called to the M60 over 'concerns for her welfare'.

who won ABC’s Season 18 of the hit competition, said they were “super embarrassed” to let fans know that they have resumed singing in public following the major win.Sam, whose real name is Samantha Diaz, shared several clips of singing Ariana Grande’s “Almost Is Never Enough” in a subway station on Instagram.“Back in 2021, I was super embarrassed to be going back to the trains. I didn’t want people to know that I legit needed the money & I didn’t want people to know that it wasn’t optional,” Diaz, who uses they/them pronouns, wrote in a since-deleted caption, according to The Sun.“I was disappointed in myself for allowing myself to fall so low after winning ‘Idol,’ but then I had to take it easy on me and remember that I started my journey with ‘Idol’ at 20 years old.

Kim Kardashian has shared how the one place where she isn’t as recognised or mobbed by fans. Kim, 42, recently enjoyed a family holiday to an Asian country and while there, she says she didn’t find herself being pestered for photos as much, which allowed her and her loved ones some much-needed time away from the limelight. Speaking on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, Kim discussed personal topics including parenting, healing trauma, navigating the dating world as a celebrity, and what it's like to travel with her family.

Amy Dowden has revealed that she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 32. Amy is best known for being one of the talented professional dancers on Strictly Come Dancing, where she’s been partnered up with celebrities such as Tom Fletcher, Karim Zeroual and, most recently, EastEnders favourite James Bye. Amy, who hails from Wales, shared the devastating news of her cancer diagnosis on Instagram.

Ariana Madix is spilling even more Scandoval tea. On the latest episode of the podcast, the star gave fans more insight into her ex Tom Sandoval's months-long affair with Raquel Leviss.Among the biggest bombshells from the episode was Madix's claim that, while she was at the home she owns with her ex, Sandoval and Leviss hooked up in the other room.«They had sex in my guest room while I was sleeping in my own bed that he and I went into bed in together and then he left the bed and went to the guest room and f**ked her,» Madix said.As for the rumor that Madix and Sandoval were in an open relationship at the time of his affair, the former reality star denied that and suggested that her ex was the one to push that narrative.«Honestly, I think [that rumor] came from him,» Madix said, recalling how, in January, she came out to deny tabloid reports that they were in an open relationship.According to Madix, there was no indication that they weren't exclusive, as they were living together, sleeping in the same bed, and shared a romantic date night as recently as Valentine's Day.Madix additionally addressed Sandoval's claim that he tried to end the relationship several times and that she had an extreme reaction to that prospect.

Police Scotland officers claimed they were "punished" for raising concerns over "racism, sexism and homophobia" from their colleagues, a review has found. The report into the culture of the force found instances of "poor behaviour being known and seen in plain sight with no action being taken" and that people were being "punished for raising issues or concerns".

Summer is here and so is barbecue season and you could enjoy the ultimate event in Glasgow city centre. Albert Bartlett is throwing a potato-inspired soiree, where the humble spud will be the star.

North Lanarkshire Council had to carry out almost 1000 more visits last year following reports of rat infestations than in the previous year.

just 48% of U.S. adults had a monthly cable or satellite subscription, while a slim majority had signed on for streaming services.Indeed, Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, also reported that its streaming service Peacock picked up 2 million net new subscribers in the quarter.As a result of the decline in cable subscribers, Comcast saw revenue from video fall 8% year-over-year to $7.38 billion in the first quarter, down from $8 billion last year.Put another way, cable TV revenue in the first quarter was not quite 25% of Comcast’s total revenue of $29.69 billion.At the same time, both broadband and wireless customers in the U.S.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The first rumblings about Comcast considering a major change involving NBCUniversal started this time last year.Now, in the wake of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell’s abrupt firing, industry speculation about what may be in store for the network-studio conglomerate has gone into what-if overdrive. Maybe NBCU merges with Hulu to become a stand-alone company. Maybe the cable operations of Comcast and the satellite business of the U.K.-based Sky are separated from NBCU.

Newly interim NBCUniversal boss Mike Cavanagh has spoken out on the Jeff Shell shocker for the first time and said he’ll be in the post overseeing the entertainment unit “for a while.”

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts kicked off the company’s first-quarter earnings call by acknowledging the abrupt dismissal of NBCUniversal chief Jeff Shell last Sunday.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Top Comcast execs made their first public comments on the departure of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Thursday, remarks that came as the company reported its Q1 earnings results. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts opened a call with investors by saying Shell’s exit due to “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate was “obviously a tough moment” adding, “we are so fortunate to have a fabulous and tenured leadership team at NBCUniversal.” “When you go down the list, you’ll see many of them have been leading their divisions within the company for at least 10 years and are the best in the business,” Roberts said. “We are also lucky to have Mike Cavanagh stepped in to help NBCUniversal while also remaining president.”

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell was dismissed “with cause” due to “inappropriate conduct” and “sexual harassment” of an employee, according to a new SEC filing from parent company Comcast.

Fox, Comcast and Warner Bros Discovery shares each took a dip Monday after the media companies took turns generating industry-shaking headlines over less than 24 hours.

As Comcast manages through the shocking and abrupt exit of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, the company has put senior exec Mike Cavanagh at the controls on an interim basis.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor After steering NBCUniversal through a global pandemic and a roiling stock market, Jeff Shell in January thought he had some good news for investors: Better times were just around the corner. “I’m pretty confident that we have a lot of growth ahead in NBCUniversal,” he told Wall Street analysts during a recent conference call. He called for new activity at the company’s amusement parks after a long fallow period caused by the COVID pandemic, as well as a boost to paying subscribers at the company’s Peacock streaming hub. Now a different executive will be charged with finding out whether Shell’s projections will come to pass.

Comcast President Mike Cavanagh will take over Jeff Shell’s role at NBCUniversal as the former CEO exited suddenly Sunday after an investigation of inappropriate conduct.