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Sky is to tread some familiar, award-winning ground with a revisit to the story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster as part of a slate of new documentaries that will premiere on the Comcast-owned pay-TV giant in the UK and Ireland. Sky has commissioned Emmy-winning filmmaker James Jones to produce a definitive 90-minute…

Sky/HBO series Chernobyl continued to dominate the awards scene after winning best drama at the Edinburgh TV Awards on Wednesday, as well as helping producer Sister scoop the production company of the year gong. Other winners included Succession, which took home best international drama, and For Sama, which was…

Sky has claimed that its HBO co-production Chernobyl has become the biggest BAFTA-winning series ever after clinching nine gongs across the BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA TV Craft Awards. The nuclear disaster drama won best mini-series at the main ceremony on Friday, while it also provided a vehicle for Jared Harris to win…

Chernobyl's awards run continues after picking up the award for best mini-series at the BAFTA TV Awards. The HBO and Sky co-production drama beat BBC drama The Victim, Channel 4's The Virtues and ITV's A Confession to pick up the award. Jared Harris also won the leading actor award. He beat The Capture’s Callum…

EXCLUSIVE: Chernobyl the big-budget Russian action drama about the titular nuclear disaster, has been acquired by Capelight Pictures for North America and German-speaking territories, with the company partnering with MPI Media Group on the U.S. release. Moscow-based sales agent Central Partnership continued sales…

Fleabag, Chernobyl and Gentleman Jack were among the winners of Banff's Rockie Awards International Program Competition. Brits dominated the virtual event taking home 14 awards, compared with 11 awards for U.S. shows and seven for Canadian shows. Last year, U.S. shows picked up nine awards, British shows scored eight…

Themes of racial and social injustice, war, the current world and even an upside-down one are key in the winners of the 2020 Peabody Awards, which on Wednesday unveiled its annual list of the 30 most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media in 2019. PBS with its documentary series PO…

The Peabody Awards on Wednesday unveiled nominations repping the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. PBS tops the nominees list with 11 noms including several the Documentaries category via its POV series. Other nominees include HBO’s Emmy winners Succession…

Chernobyl and The Virtues were the big winners at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in London on Friday. Chernobyl, the Sister Pictures series for Sky and HBO on the Soviet nuclear disaster, won Best Drama Series, while writer Craig Mazin took home Best Writer, beating Fleabag scribe Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Shane…

Fleabag and Chernobyl, two of the breakout Brit hits of 2019, will be competing for prizes at the 46th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in London on March 13. Sky and HBO’s Chernobyl scooped more nominations than any other show, and will compete in four categories including Best Drama Series at the awards, which…

UPDATED with complete list of winners: Billie Eilish swept the marquee Record, Album, Song and New Artist categories Sunday at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, with the 18-year old dominating the ceremony dubbed music’s biggest night. The live ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles was hosted by Alicia Keys the same…

The Motion Picture Sound Editors unveiled winners Sunday night at the 67th Golden Reel Awards at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The annual ceremony recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing presented awards in 23 categories encompassing feature films, long-form and short-form television, animation…