Merman is a British film and television production company founded in 2014 by Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford.
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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.