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EXCLUSIVE: One of BritBox UK’s first original dramas, The Beast Must Die, is ready to begin an 11-week shoot on the Isle Of Wight from next Monday. The series has also rounded out its cast, which is headlined by Jared Harris. Produced by New Regency Television and Ridley Scott's Scott Free Films, The Beast Must Die is…

The BBC and ITV’s joint-venture streamer BritBox has pulled the curtain back on its first slate of UK drama originals, just weeks after Deadline revealed that Damian Lewis and Dominic West will star in an adaptation of A Spy Among Friends for the streamer. Building on the Kim Philby espionage thriller, which BritBox…

Top-tier cable had an extra glow tonight as Chernobyl's awards streak continued with the HBO show snaring the prestigious Best Limited Series or Motion Picture honor at the 77th annual Golden Globes.   "See, Ricky?" teased star Jared Harris to Globes host Ricky Gervais' assertion that all "the best actors" are now…

Lee Pace (Halt and Catch Fire) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl) have been tapped as leads in Foundation, Apple TV+'s upcoming drama series based on Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel trilogy. The 10-episode series from David Goyer, Josh Friedman and Skydance Television chronicles the epic saga of The Foundation, a band…

In writing and creating HBO’s limited series Chernobyl, which has 19 Emmy nominations, Craig Mazin had to grasp two sides of the same coin: both the science, and the human impact of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion. “It was a bit like going back to school and doing a very large term paper,” Mazin said at Deadline’s…

As Craig Mazin focused on the human drama of the meltdown at Chernobyl, so he alighted on one relationship that came together in the clean-up operation, which would speak volumes to the complications of the Soviet system and the efforts of those embroiled in its politics to work within it. Boris Shcherbina was a…

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…

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…

While HBO's Chernobyl is as dark and challenging as television dramas come, the series' stars saw it as an opportunity to learn. A five-part miniseries created by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the show centers on an infamous explosion, which rocked a Soviet power plant in 1986, killing many, while exposing…

EXCLUSIVE: Jared Harris, perhaps best known for roles in AMC’s Mad Men and Netflix’s The Crown, has signed on for the Daniel Espinosa-directed the Spider-Man Universe spinoff, Morbius, at Sony Pictures. Jared Leto is attached to take on the role of Dr. Michael Morbius, the renowned biochemist created by writer Roy…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Angus Macfadyen who played the renowned warrior and king Robert the Bruce in Braveheart is portraying the historical hero again in what is turning out to be an epic Scottish drama Robert the Bruce from Aussie director Richard Gray (Sugar Mountain). Macfadyen and Eric Belgau scripted the story that continues…