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LOS ANGELES (AP) â Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show âJeopardy!â for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of schoolmaster strictness, died Sunday. He was 80.
Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, âJeopardy!â studio Sony said.
The Canadian-born host, who made a point of informing fans about his health directly, spoke in a calm, even tone as he revealed his illness and hope for a cure in a video posted March 6, 2019.
In the video, Trebek said he was joining the 50,000 other Americans who receive such a diagnosis each year and that he recognized that the prognosis was not encouraging.
But Trebek said he intended to fight it and keep working, even joking that he needed to beat the disease because his âJeopardy!â contract ran for three more years. Less than a week later, he opened the show with a message acknowledging the outpouring of kind words and prayers heâd received.
âThanks to the â believe it or not â hundreds of thousands of people who have sent in tweets, texts, emails, cards and letters wishing me well,â Trebek said. âIâm a lucky guy.â
An outpouring of grief from former contestants and the wider public quickly followed news of his death.
âAlex wasnât just the best ever at what he did. He was also a lovely and deeply decent man, and Iâm grateful for every minute I got to spend with him,â tweeted âJeopardy!â champion Ken Jennings. âThinking today about his family and his Jeopardy! family â which, in a way, included millions of us.â
âJeopardy!â bills itself as âAmericaâs favorite quiz showâ and captivated the public with a unique format in which contestants were told the answers and had to provide the questions on a variety of subjects, including movies, politics, history and popular culture.
They would answer by saying âWhat is ... ?â or âWho is .... ?â
Trebek, who became its host in 1984, was a master of the format, engaging in friendly banter with contestants, appearing genuinely pleased when they answered correctly and, at the same time, moving the game along in a brisk no-nonsense fashion whenever people struggled for answers.
He never pretended to know the answers himself if he really didnât, deferring to the showâs experts to decide whether a somewhat vague answer had come close enough to be counted as correct.
âI try not to take myself too seriously,â he told an interviewer in 2004. âI donât want to come off as a pompous ass and indicate that I know everything when I donât.â
The show was the brainstorm of Juann Griffin, wife of the late talk show host-entrepreneur Merv Griffin, who said she suggested to him one day that he create a game show where people were given the answers.
âJeopardy!â debuted on NBC in 1964 with Art Fleming as emcee and was an immediate hit. It lasted until 1975, then was revived in syndication with Trebek.
Long identified by a full head of hair and trim mustache (though in 2001 he startled viewers by shaving his mustache, âcompletely on a whimâ), Trebek was more than qualified for the job, having started his game show career on âReach for the Topâ in his native country.
Moving to the U.S. in 1973, he appeared on âThe Wizard of Odds,â âHigh Rollers,â âThe $128,000 Questionâ and âDouble Dare.â Even during his run on âJeopardy!â, Trebek worked on other shows. In the early 1990s, he was the host of three â âJeopardy!â, âTo Tell the Truthâ and âClassic Concentration.â
âJeopardy!â made him famous. He won five Emmys as its host, and received stars on both the Hollywood and Canadian walks of fame. In 2012, the show won a prestigious Peabody Award.
He taped his daily âJeopardy!â shows at a frenetic pace, recording as many as 10 episodes (two weeksâ worth) in just two days. After what was described as a mild heart attack in 2007, he was back at work in just a month.
He posted a video in January 2018 announcing heâd undergone surgery for blood clots on the brain that followed a fall heâd taken. The show was on hiatus during his recovery.
It had yet to bring in a substitute host for Trebek â save once, when he and âWheel of Fortuneâ host Pat Sajak swapped their TV jobs as an Aprilâs Fool prank.
In 2012, Trebek acknowledged that he was considering retirement, but had been urged by friends to stay on so he could reach 30 years on the show. He still loved the job, he declared: âWhatâs not to love? You have the security of a familiar environment, a familiar format, but you have the excitement of new clues and new contestants on every program. You canât beat that!â
Although many viewers considered him one of the key reasons for the showâs success, Trebek himself insisted he was only there to keep things moving.
âIâm introduced as the host of âJeopardy!,â not the star,â he said in a 2012 interview. âMy job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best,â he explained. âAnd if Iâm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.â
âBut not if I try to steal the limelight! The stars of `Jeopardy!Ⲡare the material and the contestants,â he said.
In a January 2019 interview with The Associated Press, Trebek discussed his decision to keep going with âJeopardy!â
âItâs not as if Iâm overworked â we tape 46 days a year,â he said. But he acknowledged he would retire someday, if he lost his edge or the job was no longer fun, adding: âAnd itâs still fun.â
Born July 22, 1940, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Trebek was sent off to boarding school by his Ukrainian father and French-Canadian mother when he was barely in his teens.
After graduating high school, he spent a summer in Cincinnati to be close to a girlfriend, then returned to Canada to attend college. After earning a philosophy degree from the University of Ottawa, he went to work for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., starting as a staff announcer and eventually becoming a radio and TV reporter.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1997. Trebekâs first marriage, to Elaine Callel, ended in divorce. In 1990 he married Jean Currivan, and they had two children, Emily and Matthew. Trebek lived with his family in Los Angelesâ Studio City section, not far from Hollywood.Â
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The tables have turned on âWheel of Fortuneâ for Vanna White.
The 62-year-old television personality will be filling in for host Pat Sajak after undergoing emergency surgery for a blocked intestine. White took the reins, stepping in to fill Sajakâs big shoes alongside some surprise guests!
On the show's official Instagram account, fans got a first look into Whiteâs appearance as host. The long-running show also teased cameos from some classic Disney characters, showing a couple of snaps of them alongside White.
âVanna steps in as host and Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto join in the fun!â the caption reads. âTune in beginning December 9th.â
The show teased more of what it will look like with White as the host, including some of her elegant looks throughout the pre-taped episodes. White modeled her holiday-themed looks on the showâs Instagram, giving fans a sneak peek into the coming episodes.
â@officialvannawhite wore a variety of elegant dresses this week,â the caption read. âWhich were your favorite, #WheelWatchers? #WheelOfFortuneâ
Sajak and White have been co-hosting the classic game show since the early 1980s, but this will be the first time White will be hosting an entire episode by herself. The last time White filled in was for a segment back in 1996, when Sajak had laryngitis and was unable to finish hosting an episode he had started.
It was announced on Friday, Nov. 8 that taping for the show was canceled due to Sajakâs emergency surgery.
âThe Wheel of Fortune taping on Thursday was canceled because host Pat Sajak underwent successful emergency surgery to correct a blocked intestine,â the show shared on its official social media outlets. âHe is resting comfortably and looking forward to getting back to work. Taping resumed today as scheduled and Vanna White has stepped in as host.â
Episodes of âWheel of Fortuneâ featuring White as the host will begin airing on Monday, Dec. 9.Â
Source: today.com
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As the music industry takes sides in the public war between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun after he bought her former label and acquired her catalog, legal experts are in agreement: The artist likely doesn't have grounds for a lawsuit.
Swift on Sunday sparked an internet frenzy over artists' rights after it was announced that a company fronted by Braun would pay $300 million for Big Machine Label Group, which owns the master recordings for six Swift albums going back to when she was 15 years old. In a lengthy Tumblr post, she claimed she was blindsided by the news and wasn't given the opportunity to buy her masters, adding that Braun has bullied her for years and his owning her work is her "worst case scenario."
Meanwhile, Braun's wife, Yael Cohen, and Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta defended the deal, with Borchetta claiming he sent Swift a text before the announcement and that her dad could have learned about the sale during a shareholders call last week because he owns a stake in the company. Borchetta also said the last deal memo he sent to Swift, which he posted a partial screenshot of online, would have given the artist ownership of everything she had created â and she rejected the deal in favor of moving her business to Universal Music Group. Swift is represented by veteran Beverly Hills attorney Don Passman, who on Tuesday sent The Hollywood Reporter a statement about that aspect of the dispute: âScott Borchetta never gave Taylor Swift an opportunity to purchase her masters, or the label, outright with a check in the way he is now apparently doing for others.â
Whichever version of the story is most accurate doesn't much matter in terms of Swift's legal options, according to music attorneys consulted by THR. The bottom line: This is a personal issue, not a legal one.
"She has no legal recourse," says music specialist Howard King, who represents artists including Kanye West (an on-and-off Braun client), Pharrell Williams and Avenged Sevenfold. "The masters are the record companyâs property. There's nothing in a contract that says they canât sell it to another company. In fact, it happens all the time. Thereâs no key man clause in these recording agreements."Â
Nashville-based entertainment and music lawyer Derek Crownover agrees it's unlikely Swift would sue, especially since she's already left the label. "The devil is in the details," he says. "But from the satellite view, I donât see any legal ramifications that could come of this, unless there were restrictions on the sale of the masters to third parties." Theoretically, he says, such an agreement could contain a right to match an offer for the masters â but that's uncommon.Â
James Sammataro, who represents both artists and companies in the music industry, says there may be a confidentiality provision that could have been breached when Borchetta posted the proposed deal terms online, but it's just as likely that he could argue Swift breached it first by posting on Tumblr. Still, he says, "I don't think it's going to result in litigation of any sort."
The angst artists feel over not owning their masters certainly isn't new. Music royalty like Prince, Jay-Z and Janet Jackson have publicly complained about not owning the physical manifestation of their work. (Those three artists successfully gained control.) But even before Swift's online missive, the topic has recently been in the spotlight because of a New York Times Magazine exposĂŠ titled "The Day the Music Burned." The June 11 feature about the 2008 Universal Studios fire brought to light for the first time exactly how many master recordings were destroyed when the vault they were stored in was swept up in the blaze. Universal Music Group and NBCUniversal reached a settlement in 2013, but a fresh round of litigation hit UMG last month. A $100 million class action lawsuit was filed by the estates of Tom Petty and Tupac Shakur, bands Soundgarden and Hole, and Grammy-winning artist Steve Earle. (King's firm is representing plaintiffs, alongside McPherson LLP and Susman Godfrey.)Â
As for Swift, she could offer to write Braun a check, but King questions why she'd spend that kind of money when she owns everything she makes from here on out and has a highly anticipated album due out later this summer. (She could also refuse to play her old music in live shows, thus diminishing the value of the songs, assuming her fans won't freak out.) King suspects the situation will defuse as the news cycle shifts. "This too shall pass," he says. "Her new album will be a huge success, and sheâll get far more of the profits than she used to get."
Sammataro also notes that Swift will still have some control over certain exploitations of her masters that require permission from the owner of the underlying composition. For example, a film studio can't license "Shake It Off" for a movie without the green light from both Braun and Swift. And public pressure arising from this situation might make Braun think twice about exploiting her work in ways she wouldn't be happy with, even if he's within his rights to do so.
"Any time Taylor brings attention to an issue it gets magnified," says Sammataro, noting how Swift successfully nudged Apple in 2015 to change how it pays for music. "She has a very loud megaphone and sheâs not afraid to use it. Sheâs had great success in effectuating change."
Crownover says the most significant takeaway from this whole mess isn't a legal lesson for artists, but the $300 million boost for Nashville â a city that has long been overlooked by investors in favor of the flashier markets like New York and Los Angeles. "Itâs big business now," he says. "Itâs not just country records that top out at a million in sales. Itâs Taylor Swift. It's The Black Keys. It's becoming a genre-less town, and the private equity firms are making deals here where they never did before."
Thanks to Ashley Cullins over at the Hollywood Reporter for the story.
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"Thereâs never a good time to have to do this," stated CEO Mitch Lowe.
Are the end credits near for MoviePass? The company says its taking a temporary break.Â
The once high-flying but now embattled theater subscription platform has halted its service just as the July 4 holiday box office weekend gets into swing.
MoviePass said its service was halted at 5 am ET on Thursday and may take "several weeks" for it to resume service while it undergoes unspecified "improvements" to its mobile app.Â
In March, the company had brought back its $9.95 a month plan as a promotional offering, but with many restrictions.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission that same month the company noted an "overstatement of subscription revenue" in the third quarter of 2018. It did not disclose the number of subscribers it had.
The company stated that the halting of its service was temporary but moviegoers won't be able to subscribe during the platform's time on hiatus.Â
"Thereâs never a good time to have to do this," said MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe in a statement. "But to complete the improved version of our app, one that we believe will provide a much better experience for our subscribers, it has to be done."
The fortunes for MoviePass have declined as the company suffered a cash crunch and pivoted to multiple business strategies in the course of a single year. The service once made headlines for a model that seemed to promise, essentially, 30 movie tickets for the price of one. But it wasn't able to sustain that pricing plan.Â
MoviePass' subscription app rival, Sinemia, shut down its U.S. service in late April, saying that its effort to "raise the funds required to continue operations have not been sufficient."
However, the movie theater subscription service model has taken off even as MoviePass has faded. The companies that have been seeming to make it work have been the theater chains themselves.Â
AMC Theatres' own subscription service, AMC Stubs A-List, now counts more than 860,000 subscribers as of the end of June. Theater giant Cinemark's Movie Club passed the 500,000 subscriber mark earlier this year.
And the smaller Alamo Drafthouse chain has unveiled plans to get into the subsciption game, planning to charge $20 a year for a service to launch by the end of the year.
Thanks to Hollywood Reporter for the news.
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Netflix is adding an assortment of titles this July, giving subscribers a new batch of streaming options to beat the summer heat.
The highly anticipated new season of Stranger Things will be returning to Netflix on July 4 after an extensive hiatus that lasted nearly two years. The seventh and final season of Orange Is the New Black will also be released in July along with new seasons of Queer Eye and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Other TV debuts on Netflix in July include Designated Survivor: 60 Days, the Korean adaption of the Kiefer Sutherland starrer; the second seasons of Workin' Moms and The Let Down; Another Life; and the Tia Mowry-starring sitcom Family Reunion.
As for movies, hits like Disneyâs Mary Poppins Returns, Inglourious Basterds, Taxi Driver, Philadelphia, The Hangover and Rain Man will make their way to the platform.
Netflix original movies set to hit the streamer in July include Cambridge Analytica doc The Great Hack; Point Blank, starring Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo; and the mockumentary Frankensteinâs Monsterâs Monster, Frankenstein.
Missed last month? See June's additions here. Missed what is leaving Netflix in July? See here.
Read on for the complete list of Netflix's July TV show and movie additions.
July 1st
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Astro Boy
Caddyshack
Caddyshack 2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke
Cloverfield
Designated Survivor: 60 Days
Disney's Race to Witch Mountain
Frozen River
Inkheart
Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room
Kill the Irishman
Lady in the Water
Little Monsters
Mean Dreams
Mean Streets
Megamind
Nights in Rodanthe
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Philadelphia
Rain Man
Road House
Room on the Broom
Scream 3
Starsky & Hutch
Swiped
Swordfish
Taxi Driver
The Accountant of Auschwitz
The American
The Book of Eli
The Brothers Grimm
The Hangover
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther 2
War Against Women
Who's That Knocking at My Door?
July 2
Bangkok Love Stories: Objects of Affection
Bangkok Love Stories: Plead
Good Witch: Season 4
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July 3
The Last Czars
Yummy Mummies: Season 2
July 4
Kakegurui: Season 2
Stranger Things 3
July 5
In The Dark: Season 1
July 6
Free Rein: Season 3
The Iron Lady
Sicilian Ghost Story
July 9
Disneyâs Mary Poppins Returns
Kinky
July 10
Family Reunion
Grand Designs: Season 10
Grand Designs: Season 15
ParchĂs: El documental
July 11
Cities of Last Things
July 12
3Below: Tales of Arcadia: Part 2
4 latas
Blown Away
Bonus Family: Season 3
Extreme Engagement
Kidnapping Stella
Luis Miguel â The Series: Season 1
Point Blank
Smart People
Taco Chronicles
True Tunes: Songs
July 13
Sorry Angel
July 16
The Break-Up
Disneyâs Princess and the Frog
Frankensteinâs Monsterâs Monster, Frankenstein
Wyonna Earp: Season 3
July 17
Pinky Malinky: Part 3
July 18
Secret Obsession
July 19
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: New 2019: Freshly Brewed
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Season 3
La casa de papel: Part 3
Last Chance U: INDY: Part 2
Queer Eye: Season 4
SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac
Typewriter
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July 22
Inglorious Basterds
July 24
The Great Hack
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July 25
Another Life
Workinâ Moms: Season 2
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July 26
Boi
The Exception
Girls With Balls
My First First Love: Season 2
Orange Is the New Black: Season 7
The Son
Sugar Rush: Season 2
The Worst Witch: Season 3
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July 29
The Croods
July 30
Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It?
July 31
Kengan Ashura: Part I
The Letdown: Season 2
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Wentworth: Season 7Â
Thanks to the Hollywood Reporter for the news.
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The secret's out, or at least it will be at the end of July, when all seven seasons of Pretty Little Liars leave Netflix.
The hit show, which aired on the Disney-owned Freeform, will disappear from Netflix on July 27.
PLL is just one of the TV shows and many movies exiting the streaming service next month.
Films taking their last bow â for now â include the first two Austin Powers movies, Blood Diamond, Cool Hand Luke, Dumb and Dumber, The Interview, The Terminator, Wedding Crashers and Silence of the Lambs. The Matrix franchise along with The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor will also be removed.
Despite the number of titles leaving, Netflix has announced a large number of new additions set to appear on the streaming service in July.
Take a look below at the movies and TV shows that will be leaving Netflix in July.
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Leaving July 1
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Blood Diamond
Body of Lies
Bull Durham
Chasing Amy
Cool Hand Luke
Definitely, Maybe
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Doctor Zhivago
Dolphin Tale
Dumb and Dumber
East of Eden
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Season 1
It Takes Two
Malibu's Most Wanted
Monster-in-Law
Pan's Labyrinth
Punch-Drunk Love
Silence of the Lambs
The Boondock Saints
The Interview
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The Terminator
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
The Wild Bunch
Turner and Hooch
Valkyrie
Wedding CrashersLeaving July 2
Disneyâs Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Leaving July 4
The Indian in the Cupboard
Leaving July 9
Lion
Leaving July 10
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Leaving July 12
Gone Baby Gone
Leaving July 14
The Immigrant
Leaving July 16
American Gangster
Leaving July 27
Pretty Little Liars: Seasons 1-7
Leaving July 30
Staten Island Summer
Thanks to the Hollywood Reporter for the news.
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Coming in at No. 2 just wonât do when youâre DJ Khaled.
Multiple music sources told Page Six that the rapper and producer is fuming at his label after his ballyhooed new album, âFather of Asahd,â failed to debut at the top of the charts.
âHe stormed into Epic with an entourage,â a source said. And when projections showed his new record looked likely to come in second, âhe was angry and yelling. He threw a temper tantrum,â blaming the also-ran album placing on his label chiefsâ not understanding streaming services and bundle deals.
A second source, who also described how the disappointed DJ did not hold back his displeasure, added, âNo. 2 wonât do for Khaled. He was not happy when the album didnât debut at No. 1 .â.â. Not happy at all.â
An industry insider added: âHe was furious. There was some nasty stuff said. Publicly, heâs all about âpositivity,â but there is a mean side to him that people donât see .â.â. He overhyped the record and blew it up as his biggest album ever.â
Turns out it wasnât.
âFather of Asahdâ debuted behind LA rapper Tyler, the Creatorâs fifth studio album, âIgorâ â despite an aggressive PR push by Khaledâs team that included a âSaturday Night Liveâ appearance and a Pepsi #Summergram kickoff event in New York.
The album features guests Cardi B, Meek Mill and SZA.
Another insider said Khaled went off when an estimated 100,000 downloads of his album that were sold through a bundle deal with an energy drink werenât included in his sales by Billboard.
The source said, âKhaled was upset that his label wasnât fighting for him and fighting for those numbers to count, which could have propelled him to No. 1. They donât get it.â
Meanwhile, Sony, which owns Epic and also reps Tyler, âis happy regardless. Their artists were No. 1 and No. 2.â
A source close to Khaled insisted heâs staying sanguine.
âHis album is almost gold and itâs not even a month old.â
Heâs sticking to his positive mantra on social, writing, âStill celebrating the album that was the most streamed and digital sales .â.â. to the world.â
His rep didnât comment.
Thanks to Page Six / SandraRose for the news.
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The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the worldâs worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the ghostly abandoned town that neighbors it for themselves.
One Chernobyl tour agency reported a 40% rise in trip bookings since the series, made by HBO, began in May and which has attracted outstanding reviews.
English-language tours usually cost around $100 per person.
Last April marked the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in then-Soviet Ukraine, caused by a botched safety test in the fourth reactor of the atomic plant that sent clouds of nuclear material across much of Europe.
The HBO miniseries depicts the explosionâs aftermath, the vast clean-up operation and the subsequent inquiry.
The area around the plant retains the feel of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where stray dogs roam and vegetation encroaches into windowless, abandoned buildings strewn with rubble.
In Pripyat, the ghost town once home to 50,000 people who mainly worked at the plant, an amusement park houses a rusting hulk of a merry-go-round and dodgem-car track, and a giant Ferris wheel that never went into operation. The wheel was to open on May 1 â the traditional May Day holiday.
Sergiy Ivanchuk, director of SoloEast tours, told Reuters the company saw a 30% increase in tourists going to the area in May 2019 compared with the same month last year. Bookings for June, July and August have risen by approximately 40% since HBO aired the show, he said.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko, director of Chernobyl Tour, said he expected a similar increase of 30-40% because of the show.
His company offers a special tour of locations depicted in the series, including the bunker where the initial decision by local officials not to evacuate after the explosion was made.
Day-trippers board buses in the center of Kiev and are driven 120km (75 miles) to the area, where they can see monuments to the victims and abandoned villages and have lunch in the only restaurant in the town of Chernobyl.
They are then taken to see reactor number four, which since 2017 has been covered by a vast metal dome 105 meters (344 ft) high which envelops the exploded core. The day finishes with a walk around Pripyat.
âMany people come here, they ask a lot of questions about the TV show, about all the events. People are getting more and more curious,â said tour guide Viktoria Brozhko, who insists the area is safe for visitors.
âDuring the entire visit to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, you get around two microsieverts, which is equal to the amount of radiation youâd get staying at home for 24 hoursâ,â she said.
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When Craig Mazin, the creator of the âChernobylâ miniseries, came to visit before writing the show, he said of his experience: âIâm not a religious man, but thatâs as religious as Iâll ever feelâ.
âTo walk where they walked felt so strange, and also being under that same piece of sky you start to feel a little closer, in a sense, to who they were,â he told an HBO podcast.
The disaster and the governmentâs handling of it â the evacuation order only came 36 hours after the accident â highlighted the shortcomings of the Soviet system with its unaccountable bureaucrats and entrenched culture of secrecy.
The accident killed 31 right away and forced tens of thousands to flee. The final death toll of those killed by radiation-related illnesses such as cancer is subject to debate.
A Belarusian study estimates the total cancer deaths from the disaster at 115,000, in contrast to the World Health Organizationâs estimate of 9,000.
âYou canât really come to Kiev and not take the opportunity to see this unique place,â said Gareth Burrows, a 39-year-old nurse practitioner from southern England.
âWe only ended up watching the show because we were already coming, but I think you will see an increase in tourism because of the show, it will definitely spark interest.â
Thieme Bosman, an 18-year-old student from the Netherlands, worries that the bump in tourist numbers will have a downside.
âThere are quite a lot of tourists already here and it does kind of take away the experience of being in a completely abandoned town, so I think if more and more tourists come here that will ruin the experience,â he said.
Thanks to Reuters and ScreenRant for the news.
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