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Posted on 07/16/2019 2:08:38 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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 Objects and When They See Us in the limited series category, while Jared Harris picked up a nomination in the Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category.
Produced by Jane Featherstone’s Sister Pictures and created The Huntsman: Winter’s War’s Craig Mazin, the period drama was a breakout hit for both networks; for HBO the series reached a cumulative audience of 8M viewers between its May 6 debut and its June 3 finale, higher than Amy Adams’ Sharp Objects and just below the first season of Big Little Lies. Similarly, Sky said that it was the UK broadcaster’s third best ever launch for an original drama with its opening episode scoring a cumulative audience of 1.7M.
Mazin said that he was “thrilled” that the Television Academy honored Chernobyl. with 19 nominations. “Our show was a labor of love by so many, so it was particularly gratifying to see how our cast and crew was acknowledged across the board. We all worked so hard to bring Chernobyl to the screen, and we’re overwhelmed by this recognition by our colleagues,” he added.
Featherstone previously told Deadline that Mazin’s “vast” drama was one of the most fascinating, compelling and brilliant outlines” she had ever read.
Chernobyl was one of a number of shows produced by British producers with the UK invading shorter run categories with 40% of the nominations in limited series and television movie categories produced by British firms.
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The only thing I don’t like is that it plays into the generally misguided fear of nuclear power.
The Chernobyl reactor was an irresponsibly bad design, and even then it took an idiotic, intentional defeat of safety systems in order to cause the disaster.
I do look forward to watching it from a historical standpoint.
Too bad its mostly B.S.
How so? I think it's quite accurate. The overall message is that this accident was caused not by nuclear power, faulty design or incompetence but rather by the endless lies of socialism.
Riveting.
you think?
I like when historians post
“How so? I think it’s quite accurate.”
Here you go.
Count me suspect.
MOSTLY BS
I love it when radiation scientists post.
Indeed I always look to HBO and others for exact science and then i show it to my students at Cal Tech.
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Last night I watched a video I downloaded from the internet, titled "The Babushkas of Chernobyl." Made in 2015, it's the story about the elderly women who returned to their homes in the exclusion zone, and continue to reside there.
thanx
The series was not about nuclear power or the effects of radiation. The author of this article got it wrong because the authors shallow analysis missed the whole message of the film maker.
“The overall message is that this accident was caused not by nuclear power, faulty design or incompetence but rather by the endless lies of socialism. “
That message was wrapped in a heavy blanket of lies about the danger of nuclear power and radiation.
LOL, genius.
I have never wanted to reach through the tv screen and punch someone in all of my life.
If Dyatlov was even half as obnoxious and arrogant as he is portrayed in “Chernobyl”, then he was a real piece of work.
First of all, I admit to being extremely ignorant about Nuclear Power and radioactivity.
But when you cited the book about the Southern Urals disaster, I wanted your personal opinion about that incident and the Dyatlov Pass mystery.
As you stated, the 1957 Kyshtym explosion contaminated a huge area and some areas are still contaminated today.
I’m sure that you are probably familiar with the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine explorers died very mysteriously.
The Dyatlov Pass mystery also took place in the Ural Mountains, although further North than the Atomic Plant explosion of 1957.
When they found the bodies of the Dyatlov Pass explorers, it has been said that a few of the hikers bodies were radioactive. I know the two incidents happened two years apart but the contamination covered such a huge area and lingered for so long that I was curious if you have considered the possibility that the explorers contracted Acute Radiation Sickness.
That would explain the radioactivity found on some of the corpses and one of the symptoms of Acute Radiation Poisoning is disorientation. The explorers could have been disoriented and in extreme pain, left their tent and suffered brutal, fatal falls.
I may be way off base on this one, but the Dyatlov Pass Mystery has always intrigued me and I wondered if the intense radiation from the Kyshtym disaster caused their deaths.
I’m just throwing that theory out there.
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