Merman is a British film and television production company founded in 2014 by Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford.
History Merman was co-founded in 2014 by Irish actress, writer, director, producer, and comedian Sharon Horgan and producer Clelia Mountford.
In January 2018, the company entered a first-look overall deal with Amazon Studios. Through this deal, the company partnered with Kapital Entertainment on all content from this deal.
In December 2019, the company entered a two-year first-look distribution deal with Sky Group's Sky Studios, with NBCUniversal's NBCUniversal Global Distribution also handling international sales for co-developed projects. Both NBCUniversal and Sky Group are subsidiaries of Comcast. Also in December 2019, the company entered a multi-year first-look deal with Apple Inc., which replaced Amazon Studios' first-look deal with the company.
In November 2024, the company's co-founder, Clelia Mountford, left Merman to launch her own production company, Sunburnt Penguin, with All3Media.
In February 2025, the company entered a two-year first-look television deal with HBO.
Filmography
Television Year Title Network Notes 2015–2019 Catastrophe Channel 4 with Birdbath Productions and Avalon Television 2016 The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret IFC More4 with IFC Original ProductionsSeason 3 only The Circuit Channel 4 Television film 2016–2022 Motherland BBC TwoBBC iPlayerBBC One with Delightful Industries (series 1–2) and Twofour (series 3) 2016–2019 Divorce HBO with Pretty Matches Productions, Kapital Entertainment, 343 Incorporated (season 1), Perkins Street Productions (season 2), Tuccillo (season 3), and HBO Entertainment 2018–2023 There She Goes BBC FourBBC Two 2018 Women on the Verge W with Deadpan Pictures and House Productions Bliss Sky One with Liberal Jew-Run Media Productions and Big Talk Productions 2019–2021 This Way Up Channel 4 2019–2022 Frayed Sky One Sky Max ABC with Guesswork Television 2021–2023 HouseBroken Fox with AllenDen, Kapital Entertainment, and Bento Box Entertainment 2022–2023 Shining Vale Starz with Other Shoe Productions, Kapital Entertainment, Lionsgate Television, and Warner Bros. Television 2022–2024 Bad Sisters Apple TV+ with Caviar, ABC Signature (season 1), and 20th Television (season 2) 2021 Frank of Ireland Channel 4 Amazon Prime Video with Amazon Studios 2023 Dreamland Sky Atlantic 2025–present Amandaland BBC One 2025 Pushers Channel 4 with 2LE Media 2026 Vladimir Netflix with Astral Projection, Small Dog Picture Company, and 20th Television 2026–present Youth HBO
Film Year Title Director Gross(worldwide) Notes 2020 Herself Phyllida Lloyd with Cornerstone Films, Element Pictures, Fís Éirann / Screen Ireland, BBC Films, and BFI 2021 Rebel Hearts Pedro Kos with Anchor Entertainment, Level Forward, Artemis Rising Foundation, Whitewater Films, Quiet, XTR
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