SAS Rogue Heroes [DVD]

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Mortimer, Gavin (16 December 2022). "Rogues Heroes: What Prince Harry has in common with the SAS's founder". The Spectator. World Cup wins 2022 in record breaking year for BBC iPlayer". BBC Media Centre. 31 January 2023 . Retrieved 31 January 2023. Filming has just begun on series two of the hit BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes, created by Steven Knight and made by Kudos (a Banijay UK company) for the BBC with MGM+. Of course, David Stirling is captured towards the end of Season 1. Stirling was captured in 1943, subsequently escapes and is recaptured, before finding himself in Colditz for the rest of the war. There's an obvious storyline following Stirling, but much of that might just be a distraction to the rest of the SAS story. SAS Rogue Heroes stormed on to BBC One and iPlayer last Autumn, becoming a huge hit with viewers and critics alike, attracting an audience of 9.4 million viewers (30-day all screens episode 1 figure). Inspired by Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, series two will again be a dramatised account of the origins of the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS.

Hit BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes to return for a second series". BBC Media Centre. 4 December 2022 . Retrieved 6 December 2022. Boutella, Sofia (31 October 2022). "SAS Rogue Heroes | Interview with Sofia Boutella (Eve Mansour)". Bradford Zone (Interview).Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne became more withdrawn as World War II continued and he was deeply affected by the death of his father, with his request to attend the funeral refused. Despite that, Mayne was initially awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions at Oldenburg in April 1945. Rogue Heroes: Season 1". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022 . Retrieved 16 November 2022. McLean, Craig (25 October 2022). "Tough Enough? What did it take to step into the boots of the men who made a myth?". Radio Times. London: Immediate Media Co. p.19.

At the beginning of each episode, the viewer is informed that the series is "[b]ased on a true story", and that "the events depicted which seem most unbelievable… are mostly true". [16] a b "First full-length trailer and new pictures released for SAS Rogue Heroes, coming soon to BBC One and iPlayer". BBC Media Centre. 30 September 2022. Billy Foley, writing in The Irish News, was somewhat more critical of the artistic license employed, particularly in the depiction of Paddy Mayne. Far from being "a brutish, rough man who was looked down on by the aristocracy of his native Newtownards and despised the toff officer class of the British army", Foley pointed out that the ostensibly working class Mayne was in fact born to a landed family, went to grammar school, played rugby for the British & Irish Lions, and studied at Queen's University Belfast before qualifying as a solicitor. [18] Historian Damien Lewis also said it was "nonsense" to portray Mayne as a "thug and drunken lout", when he "cared passionately for those men he commanded". [19]SAS: Rogue Heroes – Episode guide". BBC One. Choose appropriate episode . Retrieved 24 October 2022. Moreover, it was Stirling who asked General De Gaulle to have Frenchmen in the SAS because he needed men ready to do anything to deal with the Germans. So the 1re Compagnie de Chasseurs Parachutistes was sent, which became the French Squadron SAS. [20] The first episode was watched 5,526,000 times on iPlayer alone during 2022, making it the fifth most viewed individual programme on the platform that year. [12] Reception [ edit ]