The second series will show viewers what comes next for the SAS, following the dramatic turn of events in series one’s final episode. Series one followed David Stirling (Connor Swindells), Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen) and Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell) in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed in the darkest days of World War Two, with fellow cast members including Dominic West, Sofia Boutella, Tom Glynn-Carney and Theo Barklem-Biggs. The series has been available in full as a box set on BBC iPlayer since launch.

Filming on series two of SAS Rogue Heroes, made for the BBC by Kudos (a Banijay UK company), will take place in 2023.īased on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, SAS Rogue Heroes has been a big hit on the BBC with episode one attracting 9.4 million viewers (28-day all screens figure). The announcement comes as series one comes to a close on BBC One. Steven Knight’s BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes has been commissioned for a second series. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly' Daily Express'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor'Told with deceptive brilliance. With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.

And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find.

'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail_In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS.

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