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.
The cast for the single 90-minute drama was 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.
The production was set and filmed in Liverpool, with shooting starting in September 2024. First look images from the set were released in July 2025.
It was broadcast on 24 July 2025 on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
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 McGovernâÂÂs always impassioned work".
Schofield and Friel both won in acting categories at the 2026 Royal Television Society Programme Awards.