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ViacomCBS forecast streaming subscribers will grow to 65-75 million, mostly at Paramount+ as the company unveiled its new direct-to-consumer service to launch March 4. The company will ramp up investment in pure streaming content to $5 billion in 2024 from $1 billion last year and that could accelerate if its services…

EXCLUSIVE: In a sign of more streaming synergy to come, ViacomCBS is making use of its growing Pluto TV streaming service to amplify awareness of soon-to-debut CBS dramas The Equalizer and Clarice. The free, ad-supported platform will stream a two-week sampling of the premiere episodes of each show after their…

Martin Scorsese-fronted Documentary Abacus Media Rights will distribute documentary The Oratorio, hosted by multiple Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese. The 66-minute TV film about the immigrant experience will tell the story of a long-forgotten event that helped shape the cultural landscape of New York. In 1826, a…

EXCLUSIVE: A Life Too Short, the MTV Documentary Films movie about the honor killing of one of Pakistan’s first social-media stars that resulted in changes to the laws there, will debut on Friday, January 22 at 7 p.m. ET on Pluto TV. The short, produced by two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, directed by…

Today’s audience can experience Bob Barker in all his The Price Is Right hosting glory with Fremantle and Pluto TV’s new channel. On Monday Pluto TV and Fremantle’s Buzzr announced that the services would team to launch The Price Is Right: The Barker Era, a new channel aimed at highlighting the beloved game show’s…

ViacomCBS reported domestic streaming and digital video sales – which includes streaming subscription and digital video advertising revenue – rose to $489 million in the second quarter, up 25% year-on-year, driven by a 52% bump in streaming subscription revenue and robust growth at Pluto TV. Domestic pay streaming…

Pluto TV, the ViacomCBS-owned free streaming service, has expanded its smart TV reach through a global deal with LG. Under the arrangement, 2020 models of LG smart TVs in the U.S. will carry Pluto, an ad-supported, linear bundle of streaming channels. Models made between 2016-2019 will be phased in this fall, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Following through on news Deadline broke in May, Pluto TV and Verizon have activated their game-changing distribution partnership and revealed new programming details. Starting today, 100,000-plus hours of free, ad-supported programming on ViacomCBS-owned Pluto are available to Verizon customers. The…

The NFL and free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV have extended their programming partnership in a multi-year agreement. After a one-year deal revealed last August, the NFL Channel delivered a curated version of library pro football fare. Without the live game coverage or studio chat shows that are the bread…

Germany's Constantin Film has been awarded the Federal Film Board's Branchentiger prize for the top local producer and distributor of 2019. This is the 13th consecutive year that the Resident Evil and Perfect Strangers maker has won the award. With it comes 3.1M euros in funding for seven new in-house productions as…

Hitting topics that are top of mind in Hollywood, ViacomCBS Bob Bakish said stalled production is a money saver now but needs to restart by mid-summer; that movies will be released in theatres as planned if they're open and enough people are going; and that COVID-19 has spurred cost efficient work that will inform its…

EXCLUSIVE: Pluto TV and Verizon are breaking some new ground in streaming, unveiling what they call the industry’s first comprehensive distribution deal spanning pay-TV, connected TV and mobile, Deadline has learned. Both parties remained tight-lipped about financial terms. Pluto, the free, ad-supported service owned…