shut by the pandemic, donna langley made a single bold move that transformed her industry allowing audiences to stream brand new movies at home. donna langley, welcome to the media show. thank you. we met earlier this year when you very kindly hosted a load ofjournalists at a lovely, swanky london hotel on the day you were made a dame. and you then left that party and went off for a dinner which you were hosting and the papers were full of it the next day, that you had hosted, amongst other people, tom cruise. i mean, in a sense, that sums up your pulling power that tom cruise was happy to hotfoot across london to meet you. if you say so. i do say so. at least that s what it looks like to me. i mean, there have been reports that universal and tom cruise are going to collaborate together on a $200 million space adventure, shot on the international space station. are you taking tom cruise to space? i think tom cruise is taking us to space. he s taking the world to space.
that the supreme court s ruling against the federal protection of abortion rights was immoral. her comments came as thousands marched in washington and other cities on saturday to protest against the verdict. now on bbc news, the media show. hello, we re bringing today s media show to you from the heat of la. i m at universal studios to meet one of the most powerful women in hollywood the chairman of universal filmed entertainment group, who just happens to be a brit. her decisions have led to everything from huge surprise hits like mamma mia and straight outta compton to enduring franchises, the likes of fast & furious and despicable me. and back in 2020, with cinemas shut by the pandemic, donna langley made a single bold move that transformed her industry allowing audiences to stream brand new movies at home. donna langley, welcome to the media show. thank you. we met earlier this year when you very kindly hosted a load ofjournalists at a lovely, swanky london hotel o
in towards north west england, north west wales, across more of northern england and wales as the evening goes on. been quite pleasant after the chilly start in that sunshine towards the south east. so clearing from much of scotland and northern ireland quite quickly this evening, rhe rain. and then it moves south overnight through wales and england, maybe not reaching the very far southeast until we get on into tomorrow morning. it ll be a milder night in the south, a cooler night across northern areas and throughout the rest of today, tonight and tomorrow morning, across northern scotland, northern and western isles, 50 to 60 mph gusts and plenty of showers moving in. rain clearing the southeast by lunchtime tomorrow. then most places having a dry, sunny day. the showers are into western scotland, a few for northern ireland, north west england, north wales and perhaps the north midlands. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: police in ireland have named the 10 people who
well, why is abba so enduring? why is that music so enduring? what does it tap into, in terms of the human psyche and experience? and if you can tap into that relatability and universality, then the chances are that ll be something that s appealing to a lot of people. but others didn t see that? 0thers didn t see that. but i think in the case of some of these films, whether it was mamma mia or straight 0utta compton, or others that we could talk about, they re films that i did not see as inherently risky. and i know that s easy for me to sit here with you today and say that when the proof is in the pudding. but again, they sort of checked the boxes in terms of that relatability and universality. fair enough. i mean, let s go back to the beginning right now. you were born in the uk which is very exciting to us, of course, because you re now the first british woman to run a studio. but you were born in the uk,