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Friday, May 17, 2019

CHERNOBYL FOR M-NET


M-Net Channel 101 will air the start of the series Chernobyl on May 22 at 22h10. The devastating and chilling real-life 1986 catastrophe at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is unpacked in this tense historical drama.

Chernobyl is a five-part British-American historical drama television miniseries created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck.

Starring Jared Harris, Stellan SkarsgÄrd and Emily Watson, it was a co-production between the American cable network HBO and the British television network Sky, and premiered in both the United States and the United Kingdom on May 6, 2019.

The series depicts the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in April 1986 and the unprecedented clean-up efforts that followed.