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EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK Box Sets'The Crown' and 'Chernobyl' lead the TV Bafta nominations
Fleabag is also up for three TV and three craft awards.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK'Bombshell' director Jay Roach: Charlize Theron's transformation into Megyn Kelly 'short-circuited' my brain (exclusive)
'I’ve done a lot of these films where we convert and transform people, but that’s by far the most uncanny we’ve ever got to,' he said.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKCostume company behind HBO's 'Chernobyl' donating protective equipment to coronavirus struggle
The costume company behind the award-winning drama Chernobyl is donating all of its protective equipment to key workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKEli Roth set to direct 'Borderlands' movie based on hit first-person shooter
The long-in-gestation project will will find the former Tarantino protégé behind the camera, with a script from Craig Mazin.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKGolden Globes 2020: Full list of winners
It was a big night for Brits at the Golden Globes.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK Box SetsThe most searched for TV box sets of 2019
We’ve crunched the numbers to find out which shows you’ve been watching over the last twelve month.
NewsDeadline‘Chernobyl’ Star Alex Ferns Claims His Uncle Died From Nuclear Disaster Rain
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 the disaster. His […]
PoliticsYahoo Movies UKRussian Communist Party wants 'Chernobyl' series banned
The Marxist-Leninist Party in Russia is also calling for a libel action against the HBO series.
NewsYahoo Movies UK'Chernobyl' creator hits out at 'disrespectful' tourists
Some of the photos, first shared on Instagram but now circulating on Twitter, show tourists flippantly posing in the exclusion zone.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKThe Kremlin wants to remake 'Chernobyl' but with the CIA as the bad guys
HBO's harrowing drama series Chernobyl became the highest-rated series ever on IMDb this week, with almost universal praise coming from critics too.
NewsYahoo Movies UK Box Sets'Chernobyl': How historically accurate is the hit HBO miniseries?
With so much misinformation about the nuclear disaster disseminated by the Soviet government, how did the HBO show separate fact from fiction?
EntertainmentThe TelegraphChernobyl, final episode review: one of the finest TV dramas ever made
After the trauma, the reckoning. In this golden age of TV, series creators tend to make grandiloquent claims about making very long movies, as if admitting to making “television” showed a lack of ambition. Chernobyl (Sky Atlantic), though, has very deliberately used the episodic nature of the miniseries format to filter all the different facets of the event through a variety of genres: disaster movie of course, but also body horror, love story, political thriller, espionage suspenser, action adventure and even pitch-black comedy, the tension throbbing away at high intensity throughout.
LifestyleReutersHBO show success drives Chernobyl tourism boom
The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the ghostly abandoned town that neighbours it for themselves. One Chernobyl tour agency reported a 40% rise in trip bookings since the series, made by HBO, began in May and which has attracted outstanding reviews. Last April marked the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in then-Soviet Ukraine, caused by a botched safety test in the fourth reactor of the atomic plant that sent clouds of nuclear material across much of Europe.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK Box SetsDiscover the drama rated higher than 'Breaking Bad' & 'Game of Thrones' on IMDb
'Chernobyl' has shot to the top of the IMDb.com user-rated league table, with a 9.7 star rating.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKWhich show just beat David Attenborough's 'Planet Earth II' as TV's top-rated series?
Planet Earth II was indeed jaw-droppingly spectacular, but it's just been knocked off the top spot as TV's best-rated show.