It started on Sky Atlantic earlier this month.

And despite only airing for three weeks in the UK so far, with the mini-series having a total of five episodes, Chernobyl has already got a higher rating than both Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones.

The Sky Atlantic show has scored an impressive average of 9.6 out of 10 by nearly 26,000 fans.

Impressive: Chernobyl has already got a higher rating than both Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones despite only airing for three weeks with an impressive average 9.6 out of 10 on IMDb

Whereas Breaking Bad has 9.5 out of 10 by 1,194,332 fans, and Game of Thrones 9.4 out of 10 by 1,512,733 fans.

Five-part drama Chernobyl, with a star-studded cast including Emily Watson, Jessie Buckley, Stellan Skarsgard and Jared Harris, tells the story of the biggest disaster in the history of nuclear energy.

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, a safety test on a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet state of Ukraine went catastrophically wrong.

Errors were made by the poorly trained night shift, who were finding out how reactor number four would cope in a power cut.

GoT: Game of Thrones has an average of 9.4 out of 10 by 1,512,733 fans on the website

Breaking Bad: While Breaking Bad has an average of 9.5 out of 10 by 1,194,332 fans on the site

Anatoly Dyatlov, the deputy chief engineer who’s played by Friday Night Dinner actor Paul Ritter, made reckless decisions and an explosion was triggered which released 400 times more radioactivity than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima 41 years earlier.

Soviet officials put the official death toll at 31, although the real figure may have been in the hundreds of thousands.

A 19-mile exclusion zone has been in place around the site for decades – an area that has now been reclaimed by nature and wildlife – and experts say it won’t be fit for habitation for 20,000 years.

Plot: Five-part drama Chernobyl, with a star-studded cast tells the story of the biggest disaster in the history of nuclear energy

Chernobyl doesn’t shy away from the consequences of radiation exposure with prosthetics designer, Daniel Parker, providing burning and blotching, depending upon the amount of exposure.

Much of the filming of Chernobyl took place at a nuclear plant in Lithuania, which had supposedly been decommissioned.

Chernobyl continues on Tuesday 28 May at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.