Chernobyl has become the third best ever launch for an original drama on Sky Atlantic with its opening episode scoring a cumulative audience of 1.7M. The HBO co-pro, which is produced by Jane Featherstone's Sister Pictures, was the biggest audience for a Sky original drama this year and its launch is only behind Fortit…

Jane Featherstone, exec producer of HBO's Chernobyl, has lifted the lid on producing the "vast" and "compelling" period drama and how the series fits into her rapidly growing Sister Pictures. The Broadchurch and Humans producer had only just recently set up her own indie when she received a call from Kary Antholis…

"Whatever good we did doesn't matter," a solemn voice says to open the first trailer for HBO's miniseries. "What does matter is that, to them, justice was done. See, a just world is a sane world. There was nothing sane about Chernobyl." Whoa. From that ominous beginning, the trailer shifts to the almost upbeat tone of…

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its slate of TV offerings, including world premieres of HBO’s Chernobyl and Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys. The lineup also includes an event marking the final season of USA’s Mr. Robot, including a screening and a farewell conversation with the show’s star, newly minted Oscar…

HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl, about the 1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union, is as "close to reality" as possible within a five-hour structure. The Huntsman: Winter's War's Craig Mazin, who wrote and exec produced the drama, said, "We want to be as accurate as we can be. We never changed anything to make it more…

HBO has set premiere dates for the new seasons of Veep and Big Little Lies along with the debuts of miniseries Chernobyl and comedy series Los Espookys. The premium channel also said at during its TCA panel today that it will air Leaving Neverland, the controversial Michael Jackson documentary that shook up Sundance…

Paul Ritter (Electric Dreams, No Offence), Jessie Buckley (Taboo, Country Music), Adrian Rawlins (Darkest Hour, War and Peace) and Con O'Neill (Happy Valley, Telstar) have joined HBO's miniseries Chernobyl, a co-production between HBO and Sky. They join previously announced Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily…

Stellan Skarsgård (Avengers: Age of Ultron) and Emily Watson (The Dresser) are set to star opposite Jared Harris in HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl, a co-production between HBO and Sky. Written by Craig Mazin, the five-part miniseries dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — the…

Five-part miniseries Chernobyl, the first production under HBO and Sky’s recently announced drama partnership,  is set to begin filming next year, with The Crown‘s Jared Harris in the starring role. Kary Antholis, president of HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, announced the project today during HBO’s…

BREAKING: Alcon Entertainment has acquired North American and international release rights in Germany, Spain and Japan for Chernobyl Diaries, the next horror thriller produced by Paranormal Activity helmer Oren Peli. Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove made the deal and the film will be…