With Peaky Blinders concluding earlier this year, it’s time to embrace creator Steven Knight’s new creation – SAS: Rogue Heroes, a six-part drama charting how the SAS was formed and surged into action.
Based on Ben Macintyre’s book, the drama is set against the backdrop of the North African Campaign, promising high tension and large-scale set-pieces as viewers are dropped into Cairo, 1941, with officer David Stirling (Connor Swindells) persuading his superiors to allow him to recruit the toughest, bravest and brightest soldiers into a unit that will infiltrate enemy territory to cause havoc. The psychological makeup and interpersonal dynamics of these bold and, yes, reckless men will be explored as they bring their particular set of skills to bear.
Knight says the unit “used wit and imagination as much as firepower to halt the march of fascism across North Africa during the darkest days of World War 2. This is a war story like no other, told in a way that is once inspired by the facts and true to the spirit of this legendary brigade of misfits and adventurers.”
JAMIE GRAHAM