Best Television Show Tournament Round 1c: Chernobyl (45) vs The Newsroom (84)

[Chris]

Chernobyl
Plot: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.
Genres: Historical drama, Disaster, Tragedy
Created by: Craig Mazin
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Con O'Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Emily Watson, David Dencik, Mark Lewis Jones, Alan Williams, Alex Ferns, Ralph Ineson, Barry Keoghan, Fares Fares, Michael McElhatton
On-air: May 6 – June 3, 2019


VS

The Newsroom
Plot: A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor.
Genre: Political drama
Created by: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, Sam Waterston
On-air: June 24, 2012 – December 14, 2014​

 

[King Kota]

Jeff Daniels best role

 

[John McHenry]

I'm just going to leave this right here so that all those that voted Chernobyl can see their wrongness

 

[Wiseman]

Honestly, it's what hooked me in. Someone posted it on one of the social sites years and years ago. I watched it and then bam, binged the series.

 

[Keith]

Only seen a bit of The Newsroom will have to see more because I’m a Sorkin fan. Chernobyl was really good.

 

[John McHenry]

Honestly, it's what hooked me in. Someone posted it on one of the social sites years and years ago. I watched it and then bam, binged the series.

I post it somewhere at least once a year. The Morning show on Apple is very similar.

 

[Lady Redfield]

Chernobyl