Unforgivable | |
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Genre | Drama |
Screenplay by | Jimmy McGovern |
Directed by | Julia Ford |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers |
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Producer | Donna Molloy |
Running time | 90 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 24 July 2025 |
Unforgivable is a British television drama from Jimmy McGovern, starring Anna Friel, Bobby Schofield, Mark Womack, Austin Haynes, David Threlfall and Anna Maxwell Martin.
The project was scripted by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Julia Ford with Donna Molloy as producer. McGovern and Colin McKeown from LA Productions were executive producers with Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond. [1]
The cast for the single 90-minute drama is led by Bobby Schofield and Anna Friel, with support from Anna Maxwell Martin, David Threlfall, Austin Haynes and Mark Womack with Phina Oruche and Finn McParland. [2] [3]
It was set and filmed in Liverpool with filming starting in September 2024. First look images from the set were released in July 2025. [4] [5]
It was broadcast on 24 July 2025 on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. [6]
Reviewing the programme for The Guardian , Lucy Mangan awarded it five stars out of five, praising the "faultless" performances of the cast, Womack in particular, who she described as "mesmeric"; Mangan also noted that Unforgivable was free of "the agitprop that can creep into McGovern’s always impassioned work". [7]