hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and sally nugent. coming up on breakfast this morning. as the bbc celebrates 100 years we take a look through the archives at some of its most memorable moments, including the rejection letters sent to david attenborough and david bowie in the 50s and 605. jaime winstone will tell us about her latest role as the sister of serial killer stephen port s last victim. and just before nine, ben fogel will explain how nature can benefit our mental health. now, the uk has seen record numbers of daily covid cases over the festive period with workplace absences affecting many industries. the latest coronavirus figures, which coverjust england and wales, shows a further 137,583 cases have been reported. 73 people have died within 28 days of a positive test.
BBC, C4, Sky, ITV, C5 commissioners talk factual wishlists at Sheffield Doc/Fest UK factual commissioners from the BBC, Channel 4, Sky, ITV and Channel 5 convened virtually yesterday (June 8) during Sheffield Doc/Fest to talk upcoming programming and opportunities for producers and . June 9, 2021
UK factual commissioners from the BBC, Channel 4, Sky, ITV and Channel 5 convened virtually yesterday (June 8) during Sheffield Doc/Fest to talk upcoming programming and opportunities for producers and talent.
Chaired by David DeHaney, creative director of Proper Content, the session featured Guy Davies, commissioning editor, VP of factual, Channel 5; Jo Clinton-Davis, factual entertainment controller, ITV; Poppy Dixon, director, documentaries and factual, Sky; Alisa Pomeroy, senior commissioning editor, factual, Channel 4; and Clar
prices. it will spend less on fuel costs. now the issue is whether or not they actually go and spend money at all of these stores in the mall. so a huge deal for consumers on this day after christmas. at a mall over in jersey city, thank you. from that major milestone on wall street just a few days ago, getting into getting the 18,000, to a whole different stratosphere of record breaking, nbc s ben fogel now with an out of this world look back at 2014. and liftoff at dawn. reporter: it s been a record breaking year in space. nasa astronaut reid wiseman just back from months at the international space station is excited by the milestones. i think we re living right in the middle of this golden age of spaceflight. we just landed on a comet. and now we ve flown orion out past lower earth orbit.
we re looking for people who want to stay on mars the rest of their lives. reporter: there s one real astronaut to take up the challenge. 15, 20 years down the road, maybe my wife and i will sign up together and head to mars. reporter: a dream that s starting to come into focus. in 2015, space is the place to watch. ben fogel for msnbc in austria. with the new year comes a new congress and a whole new set of challenges. coming up, i ll talk with congressman john yarmouth about working together on what s ahead. also, with all this talk about north korea and the sony hack, we have an interesting guest coming up in just a few minutes. author and journalist suki kim who sat science and technology in north korea to students who didn t even have the internet. stay with us here on msnbc. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you re underwater?
and america reaches farther into the unknown. we ll take a look at that. a good friday morning to you. i m craig melvin here in new york. hackers are taking credit for a interrupt of microsoft xbox. does not appear related to the original hack. this happened on the same day the controversial comedy the interview opened in select theaters. sony had said it would not release that film after threats from a group identifying itself as hackers prompted the country s largest theaters to pull it. i m joined now from los angeles by gina kim. here s the thing, man, this christmas day, timing could not have come worse, at a time when people were opening those xboxes, opening those playstations. what s the latest on this particular outage? the latest is a group called lizard skwaquad is taking responsibility for the outage on twitter, on social media at least. but that has not been confirmed. nor do we know the cause or reason. this was not the same group that attacked sony in the f