A new BBC World News six-part series on cybercrimes is set to debut on the network on Saturday, Nov. 1.

Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley (pictured), produced in partnership with The Open University by Tern TV, delves into the dark world of hacking, now home to a new generation of highly-organized cybercriminals running complex commercial enterprises, involving leaders, planners, engineers, infantry and hired money mules. Hammersley, a technologist, investigates scam emails, threats to privacy of credit-card details, how drugs and guns can be bought anonymously on the darknet and governments' ability to spy on citizens or launch cyber war, the BBC said.

In sequence, the episodes will deal with, on Nov. 1-2, "Darknets" (such as The Silk Road, a drugs marketplace shut down by the FBI); on Nov. 8-9, "Heists" (including $45 million stolen from ATMs around the world in February 2013); on Nov. 15-16, "Scams" (in which Hammersley travels to Lagos, Nigeria, pictured, to meet online scammers in the global capital of that activity); on Nov. 17-18, "Piracy" (about the prosecution of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay); on Nov. 29-30, "Cyber War" (about the computer worm Stuxnet deployed to attack Iran's nuclear development program), and on Dec. 6-7, "Surveillance (about the fallout from Edward Snowden's NSA revelations).

HBO and BBC World News led cable-network winners at last night’s 35th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

The premium channel won two awards at the the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-produced ceremony held in New York last night, including Outstanding Informational Programming-long form for its documentary The Crash Reel (pictured). BBC World News won Emmys for two BBC World News Americaprograms, on Africa and Syria.

Other cable networks garnering single News & Documentary Emmy awards were Al Jazeera America; CNN and CNN en Espanol; Discovery Channel and Discovery Channel en Espanol; H2; ID: Investigation Discovery; National Geographic Channel and National Geographic Wild.

Among all networks, cable and broadcast, PBS had the biggest single haul of awards with 11, followed by CBS with 10 and ABC with three.

A complete list of the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award recipients can be found at the National Academy's web site. (This story was updated to include the BBC World News awards.)

Even if you don’t care about soccer, you might be curious about six very different Brazilian cities that will host the upcoming matches and, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, the Summer Olympics in two years.

A great introduction to the people and sights of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília, Manaus, Salvador and Recife comes via the 30-minute documentary Soccer Cities on BBC World News. The BBC’s clever hexacopter camera captures aerial views of the new stadiums and other urban and rainforest landscapes, and trails behind kids “free running” through empty areas of the pre-planned capital city Brasilia and mountain biking down narrow sloping alleyways in Rio. The visuals are fantastic and BBC Brasil’s knowledge of the people and politics bring us average folks who are both proud of and frustrated with their country. I loved asides about handicapped kids taking “bototherapy” swimming sessions with river dolphins in Manaus and about bouncy Frevo dancers in Recife, practicing an art invented by African slaves.

Soccer Cities will air on BBC World News on Saturday, June 14, at 5:30 and 10:30 p.m. (This was story was updated to correct the first airtime.)