HBO says production will begin next year on a miniseries about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
The five-part series will star Jared Harris as a Soviet scientist tapped by the Kremlin to investigate the accident.
Associated Press: HBO announces five-part miniseries on Chornobyl accident
(FILES) This file photo taken on April 22, 2016 shows the 4th block of Chornobyl's Nuclear Power Plant (R) and Chornobyl's New Safe Confinement (L). The normal radiation monitoring system at Ukraine's Chornobyl plant has been taken offline due to a massive cyberattack, forcing employees to use hand-held counters to measure levels, officials said June 27. The station's Windows systems was turned off "due to the cyberattack", said Ukraine's agency in charge of the exclusion zone around the plant. A spokesman told AFP employees now "go out and measure the (radiation) levels with hand-held meters."
