The Forge, a Banijay UK company, is a UK based drama production company with an unrivalled reputation for high quality, ambitious and influential TV drama, working in collaboration with the UK’s leading creative talent. The company has produced a wide range of award-winning dramas including Jack Thorne’s ‘National Treasure’ starring Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters, ’Help’ starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, David Hare’s ‘Collateral’ and ‘Roadkill’, starring Carey Mulligan and Hugh Laurie respectively and Anya Reiss’s ‘Becoming Elizabeth’ for Starz in the US.

Most recently, The Forge produced major 8-part series ‘The Buccaneers’ created and written by Katherine Jakeways for Apple TV+, which launched globally in 2023 and 4-part Disney+ series ‘Shardlake’ by Stephen Butchard, which launched globally in 2024. The Forge currently has multiple, high profile new titles for both linear and SVOD platforms in production, including season 2 of ‘The Buccaneers’ for Apple TV+; ‘Generation Z’, a six-part series and the first original TV project from Ben Wheatley for Channel 4 and ‘We Go Again’ (working title), a six-part series from award-winning writer Janice Okoh for BBC Three.