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Disaster drama Chernobyl swept up 19 Emmy nominations including a nod in the limited series category, making it the third most nominated show after Game of Thrones and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. The drama, which is a co-production between HBO and Sky Atlantic, is up against Escape At Dannemora, Fosse/Verdon, Sharp Objec…

Craig Mazin's five-part adaptation of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 begins with Jared Harris's Valery Legasov taking his own life. It is, says Harris, the inciting mystery in a story that will examine both the human cost of the event, and the social and political fallout. Freshly wrapped on HBO, the series…

Chernobyl actor Alex Ferns claims his uncle contracted cancer from rain tainted by the nuclear disaster that’s depicted in the HBO show. In an interview with the Daily Record, Ferns claimed his uncle, Robert Stephenson, was working for the Scottish Water Board in the rain in the Killearn area of Scotland shortly after…

Communists Of Russia, a Marxist-Leninist communist party, said Thursday that it has asked Russia’s TV regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block local access to “disgusting” HBO miniseries Chernobyl.  The party, not to be confused with the bigger, more powerful Communist Party of the Russian Federation, went on to call for a…

Just days into the initial round of Emmy voting, When They See Us has gotten a big boost from the streaming service that the Ava DuVernay directed limited series is on and from real world outrage over the prosecutors who were hellbent on putting the Central Park 5 behind bars for the brutal sexual assault of a NYC…

EXCLUSIVE: There's a lot of anecdotes about what a global sensation Chernobyl has become for HBO, but like the fallout from the horrific nuclear plant eruption of 1986, it is the numbers that tell the real story. And unlike the initially suppressed devastation that still leaves parts of Ukraine soaked in radiation…

Russian state TV channel NTV is soon to air its own drama version about the deadly 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Unlike the hit HBO series, this more obviously pro-Russian Chernobyl will claim that a CIA spy was present for the catastrophic nuclear accident. According to the Guardian, a description of the show says that…

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…