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Chernobyl is now the highest rated TV show on IMDb beating Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad

Published 10:01 24 May 2019 BST

Alan Loughnane
Chernobyl is now the highest rated TV show on IMDb beating Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad

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HBO and Sky Atlantic's new show Chernobyl has only aired for three weeks in the UK so far, with the mini-series having a total of only five episodes. But it certainly seems to have struck a chord with fans, since it has managed to secure a higher rating on IMDb than Planet Earth 2, Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones. Chernobyl has become the top rated TV show on IMDb with a rating of 9.5 while over on Rotten Tomatoes, it also holds a rating of 96%. Planet Earth 2 previously held the IMDb gong. Chernobyl talks about the early hours of 26 April 1986, when a safety test on a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet state of Ukraine went catastrophically wrong. Detailing the 1986 disaster, HBO and Sky Atlantic's five-part mini-series dramatises the story of the nuclear accident, considered to be one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, and the sacrifices made to save Europe from an unimaginable disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9APLXM9Ei8

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Chernobyl is now the highest rated TV show on IMDb beating Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad