Dive Brief:

• National Geographic is premiering American Blackout, a 2-hour made-for-TV movie, on Sunday October 27 at 9 p.m. ET.
• The movie "imagines the story of a national power failure in in the U.S. caused by a cyberattack" which will be "told in real time, over 10 days, by those who kept filming on cameras and phones."

This is a trailer for the movie:

Dive Insight:

Cataclysmic nationwide power outages make for great TV and movie fodder, but are they truly possible? A worst-case scenario cyberattack could effectively cripple the U.S. electrical grid for up to 18 months, according to control systems security consultant Joe Weiss. This is any utility's (and perhaps the country's) worst nightmare.