Sky today announces The Wargame will launch on 21 September, with a live special following the series finale on 24 September. The Wargame is a new four-part thrilling constructed documentary series where senior politicians, military leaders and intelligence chiefs confront a simulated high‑stakes crisis: a Russian attack on UK soil.

Produced by The Garden, part of ITV Studios, (24 Hours in Police Custody) The Wargame brings viewers inside a sealed COBR‑style crisis room as an impressive cross-party cast, including Michael Gove, Nicola Sturgeon, Harriet Harman, Penny Mordaunt, Sayeeda Warsi, Jim Murphy, Ayesha Hazarika, Richard Barrons, Kim Darroch, Christopher Steele, George Robertson and Anthony Scaramucci, grapple with minute‑by‑minute decisions that could shape the fate of the nation.

The series will air nightly from Monday 21 September, with each episode revealing how the “Cabinet” responds to rolling news bulletins, intelligence reports and unexpected interventions as the scenario escalates.

To mark the conclusion of the simulation, the final episode (TX Thursday 24 September) will be followed by a special live programme, The Wargame: Live (w/t), filmed in front of a studio audience and hosted by Cathy Newman. Members of the cast will join the discussion to reflect on the pressures of decision-making at the highest level and explore the wider questions raised from this thrilling documentary series.

The Wargame (5x60) has been commissioned by Phil Edgar-Jones, Executive Director, Unscripted Originals at Sky for Cécile Frot-Coutaz, Chief Advertising and Content Officer, Sky, CEO Sky Studios. The Head of Documentary Commissioning for Sky is Hayley Reynolds and the Commissioning Editor is Jo Hughes. Executive Producers for The Garden are Nicola Brown and Tom Fulford, the Series Director is Ben Harding, Series Producers are Ella Taylor and Zehra Yas, and the Line Producer is Sasha Davies.

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