One thing the programme didn't predict was the role of the nation state hackers like North Korea, expertly told in the BBC's Lazarus Heist podcast.

Mark Lazarus, who currently serves as chair of NBCUniversal Media Group, will shift to the new company as its chief executive.

But Lazarus, a respected veteran inside NBCUniversal, tried to keep an optimistic tone when addressing staff, according to one attendee at the meeting at the network’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York.

The new company will have the chairman of NBCUniversal's media group, Mark Lazarus, as its chief executive.

Mark Lazarus, who has presided over NBC Sports and NBCUniversal’s networks business for more than a decade, will lead the new company, the knowledgeable people said.