BBC’s BAFTA-Winning ‘Oppenheimer’ Series Heads to iPlayer Following Movie’s Success
variety.comManori Ravindran Executive Editor of International The BBC’s “Oppenheimer” has finally landed on iPlayer. All seven episodes of the Sam Waterston-led drama series from 1980 is now available in full on the BBC streaming service.
Until now, the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated series was only available to rent or purchase on Prime Video. Its release comes weeks after Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” movie began tearing up the box office with “Barbie” as part of the “Barbenheimer” cinematic event. “Oppenheimer” has now grossed more than $405 million in worldwide box office.
Distributed by BBC Studios, the TV show starred Waterston as the contemplative father of the atom bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and “Poirot” star David Suchet as the Los Alamos scientist Edward Teller.
The cast was mainly comprised of American actors, who were all based in the U.K. at the time, save for Waterston. Produced for $1.5 million (the equivalent of around $5.5 million today), the series filmed between the U.K.
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