United Kingdom, March 4 -- The 'Fallout' TV programme is "almost like 'Fallout 5", showrunner Jonathan Nolan has said.

According to the 47-year-old producer, his pitch for the Prime Video show, where he suggested the programme would tell an original story in the franchise that would be part of what Bethesda Studios had created with their games, was what got the team "most excited" for the project.

In an interview with Total Film, Jonathan said: "From the first conversation with (Bethesda boss) Todd Howard, we were most excited about an original story.

"'Fallout', in my career, is closest to the work we did in adapting 'Batman', where there's so much storytelling in the 'Batman' universe that there is no canonical version of it, so you'...