Link: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/21/tv-tonight-the-wargame-clickbait-clinic-david-olusoga

Gove and Nicola Sturgeon join a simulated cabinet facing an escalating crisis. Plus: Stacey Dooley investigates ‘heightmaxxing’. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky OneUsing political figures from our recent past, this docudrama maps out a British response to an escalating pattern of Russian aggression. Alongside Michael Gove (who gets to cosplay being prime minister at last), politicos including Harriet Harman and Nicola Sturgeon take their places round the cabinet table. Credible commitment to the concept is essential to make the drama elements work, and all manage it reasonably well – particularly the unnamed Potus with Russian sympathies … Phil Harrison

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