Sharon Horgan’s Merman is a globally-renowned production and entertainment company working across the UK and US. Founded in 2014 by award-winning duo Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford, it has a reputation for scripting and producing award winning TV and film. Merman Television has won a multitude of accolades, including numerous BAFTAs and multiple Emmy and RTS nominations, alongside Production Company of The Year at the Edinburgh TV Awards 2022. Sharon Horgan and Merman have signed a two-year first-look television deal with HBO, with the inclusion of an 8 part straight-to-series order for an upcoming comedy.

Merman’s recent TV projects include season two of the critically acclaimed Bad Sisters (Apple TV+), which was created by and starred Sharon Horgan, which took home titles like Best Drama, Director (Dearbhla Walsh), and Script (Sharon Horgan) at the 2025 IFTA Awards. The second season has amassed nominations from the Critics’ Choice and Producers Guild Awards, including a nomination for the Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, an Emmy nomination for Sharon Horgan for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and won a BAFTA Television Craft Award for Original Music: Fiction, awarded to composers Tim Phillips and PJ Harvey. In 2023, Bad Sisters won the BAFTA Award for Drama Series, Best Supporting Actress and Best Titles & Graphic Identity, alongside a further two nominations. It received four IFTA Awards and the Peabody Award for Entertainment, and was nominated at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards, C21’s International Drama Awards, Writers Guild of America, Broadcast Awards, Channel 4’s National Comedy Awards, RTS Craft & Design Awards and at the Edinburgh TV Awards for Best Drama.

In the US, Merman’s offices cover TV and film alongside advertising and branded content. Kira Carstensen is Managing Partner of Merman Los Angeles and Ellen Jacobson-Clarke is Managing Partner of Merman New York. Stacy Greenberg serves as Head of Scripted Television. Merman US currently have the highly anticipated Vladimir for Netflix in production and I’m Glad My Mom Died in Development for Apple TV+.

Amandaland, the eagerly anticipated Motherland spin-off, aired on BBC One and iPlayer in February of 2025. Following immediate critical acclaim and averaging over 6.4 million viewers to date, it was soon recommissioned for a second series which is currently in pre production. Pushers, a co-production with 2LE Media, written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows aired in June, which  first came to life as the award-winning Channel 4 Comedy Blap Disability Benefits.

Other TV projects include: Dreamland For Sky, Frayed for Sky/ABC, This Way Up for Hulu/Channel 4, Housebroken for Fox, Shining Vale for Starz, Frank of Ireland for Channel 4/Amazon, Motherland for BBC Two, There She Goes for BBC Four, Catastrophe for Channel 4/Amazon, Divorce for HBO, Women on the Verge for UKTV, plus series 3 of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret for Channel 4.

Merman’s first feature film Herself, a co-production with Element Pictures, written by Clare Dunne and Malcolm Campbell and starring Dunne, premiered at 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Merman has also produced BBC Sounds audio drama People Who Knew Me, starring Rosamund Pike and Hugh Laurie.

Working alongside Sharon Horgan in the London office are Merman’s Managing Director, Rebecca Parkinson; Finance Director Jackie Sidey; and Head of Scripted, Faye Dorn. Merman’s advertising and branded division are also based in London and under the leadership of joint Managing Directors Siobhan Murphy and Spencer Dodd.