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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes,” premiering Wednesday on HBO, exposes the shocking lies the Soviet government fed its citizens in an effort to downplay the dangers of the Chernobyl explosion — even as officials who knew better protected themselves.Among the recently discovered and previously unseen footage is video originally shot to be propaganda as the country scurried to downplay the severity of the event. “The Soviet government played fast and loose with the truth,” director James Jones told The Post.

Director Zack Snyder finally got to finish and release his version of “Justice League” earlier this year on HBO Max, after an online campaign spearheaded by fans to allow the filmmaker to complete his original vision.

British actor Paul Ritter, who was most recently seen in the hit HBO series Chernobyl, passed away on 6 April. The 54-year-old actor was battling brain tumor and succumbed to the same.

The British Academy of Film and Television announced the winners of the 2020 British Academy Television Awards and, like their counterparts across the pond a year ago, HBO and Sky’s “Chernobyl” was the big winner. That being said, there were some major surprises.

For those looking for any Emmy Awards trends in the 2020 BAFTA Television Awards, there were decidedly few. Thanks to a different qualification calendar, the HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” and Amazon Prime and BBC’s “Fleabag” dominated the proceedings.

Actor Dimitri Diatchenko, whose turn in Oren Peli’s “Chernobyl Diaries” earned him praise, has died. Diatchenko’s agent, Roger Paul, confirmed the news to Deadline. He was 52.

The U.K.’s Broadcasting Press Guild held its 46th Television and Radio Awards at London’s Banking Hall on Friday, with “Chernobyl” and “The Virtues” among the winners.

The popular action-adventure survival horror video game, The Last of Us is all set to be adapted as an HBO series and the project will be helmed by Chernobyl writer Craig Mazin. Neil Druckmann, the creator of the original game, will join Craig in developing the project. They will pen the script and also serve as the executive producers, The Verge reported. The video game, which came out in 2013, is set in the post-apocalyptic United States where a fungal plague nearly destroyed humanity. 

HBO’s “Chernobyl,” Netflix’s “Sex Education” and indie film “Wild Rose” took top prizes at the U.K.’s second annual CDG Casting Awards, held on Feb. 11 in London.

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Sunday night Oscar win completed her clean sweep of top show-biz awards over the past five months.

Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir continued her winning streak, claiming top honors for both her “Joker” and “Chernobyl” scores at Tuesday night’s inaugural awards of the Society of Composers & Lyricists at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center.