Bombshell is a British television military drama series, produced by Shed Productions, the company behind Bad Girls, Footballers' Wives, and Waterloo Road.

[1] The series, originally commissioned by Shed Productions in early 2004, focuses on the day-to-day workload of officers and soldiers in the British Army, and was subsequently given the nickname Army Wives by the British press.

The series was first teased by the creators in March 2002,[2] and was described as "a focus on how the army is changing with the recruitment of more women and a more lenient attitude to homosexuality."

After filming completed, ITV announced that the series was scheduled to be aired in February 2005.

However, just over a year later, the series was shown on TV One in New Zealand in 2006, and on the Hallmark Channel in Australia in 2008.