With Nine Shows on the Air, Dick Wolf Extends Overall Deal at Universal Television Through 2027

Belle Hassan ditches her signature pink hair in favour of an all over chocolate brown shade in her latest hairstyle switch up.The former Love Island star’s previous look featured two money pieces at the front of her hair, which she had dyed a vibrant pink colour.The style has been a major trend for the past year, and involves lightening two narrow strips at the front of your hair to frame your face. Although plenty of people choose to leave the bleached sections blonde, others took advantage of the lighter shade and experimented with bright colours, including Belle Hassan, who chose to dye her lightened locks a vibrant bubblegum pink shade.

It’s been rumoured that pop princess Taylor Swift has found herself another British beau just a few weeks after confirming she’d called it quits with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. A source has claimed that she’s dating rocker Matty Healy, who fronts band The 1975 and is the son of Loose Women presenter Denise Welch.

Tonight's I'm A Celebrity... South Africa sees recent arrival Joe Swash spot former royal butler Paul Burrell surprising bum tattoo.

Kate Garraway was left taken aback as her Good Morning Britain co-star made an unexpected dig at Carol Vorderman. The presenter was at the helm of the ITV news programme on Thursday (May 4) alongside Ben Shephard when they were joined as usual by Richard Arnold.

Erik ten Hag and his Manchester United players made the trip south on Thursday morning as they prepare to take on Brighton in the Premier League.

Hey Jude, don't let me down.

Street parties are being held all across Oldham to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III.

The Beach Boys’ ‘God Only Knows’ as if it were performed by The Beatles.Over recent months, music lovers have been using AI methods to create “new music” and collaborations with their favourite artists, including The Weeknd, Drake, Kanye West and more. However, one of the latest projects shared shows that fans can also bring some of their nostalgic favourites back to life, and create new versions of iconic 1960s tracks.One of the most recent covers, shared last month, shows just that — depicting the iconic 1966 Beach Boys track, ‘God Only Knows’ being played in the style of The Beatles.Starting with AI-generated vocals, the track also features a dreamy duet with Paul McCartney and John Lennon, as well as backing harmonies from drummer Ringo Starr and an a cappella ending.

Ed Sheeran’s threat that he will quit music if he loses the current ‘Thinking Out Loud’ song-theft case in New York might have actually boosted support for the Ed Townsend estate that instigated this legal battle. However, Sheeran’s lawyer warned yesterday, if her client loses, all songwriters lose because of the precedent that ruling will set.

UK record industry trade group BPI has announced the first recipients of its new BRIT Billion award, handed out to artists who have achieved more than a billion UK streams. Among them are Abba, Coldplay, Mariah Carey, Ellie Goulding, AJ Tracey and Lewis Capaldi.Announced last year and joining the existing platinum, silver and gold BRIT Certified awards, the BRIT Billion trophy is the first such award to recognise an artists’ success across multiple projects.

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APPOINTMENTSBecause Music UK and its London Records division have both announced new Managing Directors. Rhian Emanuel moves up from Marketing Director of Because, while Laura Kelly shifts from General Manager of London. Meanwhile, Ed Pearson has been promoted from Marketing Director to SVP Marketing, Dance & Electronic at Because Music UK, and Junior Foster joins London Records as Digital Marketing & Strategy Manager.————————————————–RELEASESHarry Styles has released the video for ‘Satellite’ from his ‘Harry’s House’ album.Brian Eno and Fred Again will release a collaborative album, titled ‘Secret Life’, this Friday. It is, says Four Tet – who is releasing the album on his Text Records label – “the most beautiful album of 2023”.Little Dragon will release their latest album ‘Slugs Of Love’ on 7 Jul, which will feature a collaboration with Damon Albarn on its tracklist.

Grimes has launched a new website making it easier to replicate her voice using AI, should you want to. It was only last month that the musician gave her blessing for people to do so.The website allows users to upload audio of themselves singing or to record directly into the software via their computer microphone. Once processed, the same audio will be returned but with a computer-generated Grimes voice.“This is all a beta test so it may be imperfect at first”, she explained in a tweet.

A petition calling for New Zealand to be allowed to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest now has more than – wait for it – 70 signatories! But, hey, 73 people is most of the population of New Zealand, right? Now they just need to convince the 745 million people living in Europe.Comedy pop duo Two Hearts launched a campaign last month calling for New Zealand to be allowed to enter next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. They state their case with the country’s “official/unofficial Eurovision entry” ‘Eurovusion (Open Up)’.Among other things, the song points out that Australia has now been allowed to compete in the contest since 2015 and that New Zealand probably wouldn’t upset the balance of things by actually winning.

The Hives have announced that they will release their first studio album in over a decade, ‘The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons’, this summer. Its first single ‘Bogus Operandi’ is out now.The title references the apparent death of the band’s supposed mentor, manager and songwriter, Randy Fitzsimmons.

The late Carrie Fisher had a love/hate relationship with the franchise that defined her career, "Star Wars." Fisher – who died in 2016 at age 60 from a heart attack – will be honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4, or "Star Wars Day." Fisher played Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, from 1977 to 1983, before reprising the role for its sequel trilogy in 2015 and again in 2017. She was outspoken prior to her death about her struggle with simultaneously loving the iconic film franchise and also wishing she had turned down the offer. Here is a snapshot of some of Fisher's most memorable comments about "Star Wars." Having regrets Fisher was known to be an open book.

Addie Morfoot Contributor The breakdown of the Writers Guild of America’s contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers could benefit the documentary industry. Especially those documentary filmmakers with projects seeking distribution. At least that’s the hope. Like film and television scribes worried about the survival of screenwriting as a viable profession, hundreds of nonfiction filmmakers with independently made docus are grappling with the streamers’ new distribution landscape, which, for the most part, no longer includes acquiring titles that aren’t commissioned.

EXCLUSIVE: NBC earlier this week picked up all six Wolf Entertainment series, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime, for next season. The renewals came with an asterisk as casts were told that they will appear in fewer episodes next year, I hear.

[Warning: Major spoilers ahead]The actress — who generated fandom shockwaves when she announced her mysterious departure from the NBC franchise — is also slated to appear in the penultimate episode of the spin-off “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” TVLine reported.Giddish will reportedly be accompanied by a surprise, uh, guest when she returns to Dick Wolf’s enduring police procedural.Yes, Detective Rollins will arrive on the crime scene — pregnant, sources confirmed exclusively to the outlet.The fan favorite first revealed her unexplained exit via an emotional social media message in August 2022.“I wanted to address the chatter I’ve seen online and let everyone know that this will, indeed, be my last season on ‘Law & Order: SVU.’ Playing Rollins has been one of the greatest joys and privileges of my life,” Giddish, 42, wrote on Instagram at the time.“Playing Rollins has been one of the greatest joys and privileges of my life. I’ve been so fortunate to be a part of the ‘Law & Order’ family for the last 12 years.”Her shocking exit was reportedly not her decision — with some industry sources revealing that she was forced out.Showrunner David Graziano — who replaced Warren Leight after Season 23 and has faced claims of on-set bullying and sexual harassment — responded to the news after outraged fans started tagging him in social media rants.

On the heels of NBC extending Dick Wolf’s six scripted series on the network for another season, sibling Universal Television has extended Wolf’s overall deal at the studio for two additional years.

NBC has renewed all six of its Dick Wolf-produced shows including the One Chicago franchise — Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. — and the trio of Law & Order dramas — the mothership series, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime — for the 2023-2024 season.