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Sky to adapt the scariest 'spine-chilling' podcast of 2025 in immersive new documentary series — and it'll completely change your fears about 'World War 3'
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Sky set to adapt its 2025 political podcast The Wargame as an 'immersive' new documentary series of the same name
UK politicians, including Michael Gove, Nicola Sturgeon, and Penny Mordaunt, will form a mock government cabinet that is faced with the threat of war from Russia
Sky has announced plans to adapt its hit 2025 political podcast The Wargame as an "immersive" documentary service coming to both the streamer and NOW TV in September 2026.
The premise will remain the same across four 60-minute episodes, which "take 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."
The Wargame is set six months in the future and has been developed alongside leading academics, military, and defence experts to replicate the pressure of political decision-making at the highest level.
The following core cast of former UK politicians will be assuming these (fictional) roles in the simulation:
Deputy Prime Minister — The Rt Hon. Nicola Sturgeon PC
Defence Secretary — The Rt Hon. Dame Penny Mordaunt DBE PC
Home Secretary — The Rt Hon. the Baroness Harman KC PC
Attorney General — The Rt Hon. the Baroness Warsi PC
Director of Communications — The Baroness Hazarika MBE
Chief of Defence Staff — General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE
National Security Adviser — The Rt Hon. the Lord Kim Darroch KCMG
No exact release date has been confirmed as of writing, but the original podcast gives us a solid idea of how we can expect the episodes to break the "conflict" down.
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Though the podcast was paced over fives episodes rather than four, we can expect the breakdown of The Wargame to follow the same format.
Episode 1 sets the scene, with a number of seemingly unrelated attacks and issues across the UK potentially being orchestrated by Russian intelligence. In episode 2, Russia launches its first full-scale attack, with the Prime Minister having to address the nation in a time of unprecedented crisis in episode 3.
Episode 4 is when the UK's defence starts to fight back, but is on the losing foot. This all culminates in a potential ceasefire being brokered in episode 5, which, as you might expect, isn't too straightforward.
If this premise sounds horrifying, that's because it is. When the podcast first launched on Spotify, Apple, and other services, I made everybody I knew listen to it. Why? It addresses one reality that nobody in actual government wants to freely admit: the UK defence system is almost non-existent.
The Wargame concludes that the UK is susceptible to almost every kind of combative attack possible, and would most likely be defeated (or at least left in a very worrying state). It encourages a greater sense of awareness among us all, and hopefully, will lead to some critical conversations.
If you're wondering why a podcast would openly admit a country's lack of protection to an international audience, The Wargame's slogan answers that for us: "Russia knows our weaknesses, but do you?"
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Jasmine is a Streaming Staff Writer for Tech Radar, previously writing for outlets including Radio Times, Yahoo! and Stylist. She specialises in comfort TV shows and movies, ranging from Hallmark's latest tearjerker to Netflix's Virgin River. She's also the person who wrote an obituary for George Cooper Sr. during Young Sheldon Season 7 and still can't watch the funeral episode.
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