EXCLUSIVE: Ever wondered what happens in the room when some of the most important people in Britain debate whether to go to war?
Wonder no more as Channel 4 preps War Room [working title], which will drop a cast of senior politicians, military strategists and intelligence chiefs into a high-stakes simulation of the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBRA), the rooms used for decision-making over responses to national or regional crises.
Clarkson’s Farm maker Expectation is behind the entertainment format, which tests how Britain’s leaders might respond if the country was under attack. Created by military strategists and based around the precarious geopolitical events of 2026, the series unfolds as a real-time thriller, combining documentary footage from the War Room with dramatized sequences. Locked inside a purpose-built, secure bunker, modelled on Britain’s own COBRA, the committee will be forced to make key decisions with the weight of the country’s
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