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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount-owned Channel 5 has greenlit The Chernobyl Disaster, which it promises is the “definitive look at the Chernobyl disaster timeline” three years after Sky/HBO’s award-winning mini-series premiered to critical acclaim. Channel 5 favorite Ben Fogle is helming the three-parter, which will air later…

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacy Snider’s Chernobyl producer Sister has hired an in-house Covid Supervisor for at least the next six months to oversee protocols on set. Neil Chordia, who runs Urban Hymn producer ChorMedia but has been Covid-supervising on various productions since the pandemic…

An iconic UK live music venue is on the verge of reopening following millions of pounds of investment from Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider’s Chernobyl producer Sister. The UK-headquartered drama producer has taken a 40% minority stake in London venue Koko, which will reopen in spring 2022…

UK stage and screen actor Paul Ritter, best known for long-running Channel4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner, has died of a brain tumour aged 54, his agent has confirmed. Ritter’s prolific small screen output included key roles in 2019 HBO hit Chernobyl, ITV drama Vera and Paul Abbott’s No Offence. Among his feature…

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…