The Wargame: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Wargame takes viewers beyond the news cycle and behind closed doors into a sealed COBR-style crisis room where real-world senior politicians, military leaders and intelligence chiefs are challenged to confront a high-stakes scenario: a Russian attack on UK soil.

Set six months in the future, this gripping simulation has been developed in conjunction with leading academics, military and defence experts, including Sky News' Security and Defence Editor Deborah Haynes, to replicate the pressure of political decision-making at the highest level.

Rolling news bulletins, social media footage, military and intelligence reports and unexpected interventions throw up a series of minute-by-minute dilemmas, forcing the ‘Cabinet' to grapple with decisions that could affect us all. A provocative stress test on our leaders, our institutions and the country itself, this unmissable event television will prompt us all to engage with our new geopolitical reality.

Series details

• Title: The Wargame
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2026-09-21
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Network listed by TVmaze: Sky One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 92726

Cast and credited roles

• Michael Gove — Prime Minister
• Nicola Sturgeon — Deputy Prime Minister
• Penny Mordaunt — Defence Secretary
• Harriet Harman — Home Secretary
• Jim Murphy — Foreign Secretary
• Sayeeda Warsi — Attorney General
• Ayesha Hazarika — Director of Communications
• Richard Barrons — Chief of Defence Staff
• Kim Darroch — National Security Adviser
• Christopher Steele — Intelligence Chief
• George Robertson — Nato Secretary General
• Anthony Scaramucci — US Secretary of State

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2026-09-21; final listed air date 2026-09-24; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

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