BBC has ordered a third season of their popular World War II series SAS ROGUE HEROES which, based on Ben Macintyre’s book continues the dramatised story of the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, charting their astounding feats of bravery and the impact of war upon the men.
Summer, 1944, France. Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell) and his Rogues have parachuted deep behind enemy lines and must destroy and disrupt the mighty
Andrew Dawson, Jake Jarratt and Lorne MacFadyen
German army as they continue to repel the Allied advances. Alongside the French resistance and new recruits, the SAS once again face seemingly unsurmountable challenges, as the liberation of Western Europe begins. Sofia Boutella returns as French-Algerian intelligence operative, Eve Mansour and Dominic West as British Army officer, Dudley Clarke. Lorne MacFadyen joins as Reverend Fraser McLusky, offering support to returning troops Theo Barklem-Biggs, Corin Silva, Jacob Ifan, Jacob McCarthy, Stuart Campbell, Bobby Schofield and Jack Barton. Further new recruits include Nick Hargrove, Andrew Dawson and Jake Jarratt, fighting alongside members of the French and Belgian Maquis. In USA the series airs on MGM Plus.
The first season scored success for BBC in UK so the second season of wartime series SAS: ROGUE HEROES is ready to get back on the broadcaster this January and to MGM+ in USA. In the new season Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West are joined by new cast members Gwilym Lee, Con O’Neill, Mark Rowley, Jack Barton and others.You can check out the dynamic first trailer below. The second season will open the New Year, airing on BBC One from January 1st and over in United States January 12th on MGM +. The series also airs on SBS in Australian, TVNZ in New Zealand and Canal Plus in France.
ORIGINALLY INSPIRED BY
Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same
name, series two returns to action with the troops in Spring 1943. Paddy
Mayne (Jack O’Connell) takes control of the SAS following David
Stirling’s (Connor Swindells) capture, and now attention must turn from
the conflict in North Africa to mainland Europe. But GHQ have cast doubt
over the future of the regiment, while the creation of a second unit
and an influx of new arrivals make things even more difficult for the
men. Can they prove that the SAS remain essential to the war, wherever
it may lead them?
WHO IS IN THE SQUAD NOW?
Gwilym Lee joins the cast as Bill Stirling, David Stirling’s brother and founder of the 2SAS regiment, while Con O’Neill appears as General Montgomery. Theo Barklem-Biggs, Corin Silva, Jacob Ifan, Jacob McCarthy, Stuart Campbell, and Bobby Schofield also return for duty in series two. Among the brigade’s new recruits are Mark Rowley and Jack Barton, who will play SAS members Jock McDiarmid and John Tonkin respectively. Further new cast members include Stuart Thompson, Paolo De Vita, Anna Manuelli, Edward Bennett and Matteo Franco.
The first season scored success for BBC in UK so the second season of wartime series SAS: ROGUE HEROES is ready to get back on the broadcaster sometime soon and to MGM+ in USA. In the new season Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West are joined by new cast members Gwilym Lee, Con O’Neill, Mark Rowley, Jack Barton and others.You can check out the dynamic first trailer below.
ORIGINALLY INSPIRED BY
Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same
name, series two returns to action with the troops in Spring 1943. Paddy
Mayne (Jack O’Connell) takes control of the SAS following David
Stirling’s (Connor Swindells) capture, and now attention must turn from
the conflict in North Africa to mainland Europe. But GHQ have cast doubt
over the future of the regiment, while the creation of a second unit
and an influx of new arrivals make things even more difficult for the
men. Can they prove that the SAS remain essential to the war, wherever
it may lead them?
WHO IS IN THE SQUAD NOW?
Gwilym Lee joins the cast as Bill Stirling, David Stirling’s brother and founder of the 2SAS regiment, while Con O’Neill appears as General Montgomery. Theo Barklem-Biggs, Corin Silva, Jacob Ifan, Jacob McCarthy, Stuart Campbell, and Bobby Schofield also return for duty in series two. Among the brigade’s new recruits are Mark Rowley and Jack Barton, who will play SAS members Jock McDiarmid and John Tonkin respectively. Further new cast members include Stuart Thompson, Paolo De Vita, Anna Manuelli, Edward Bennett and Matteo Franco.
The first season scored success for BBC in UK so the second season of wartime series SAS: ROGUE HEROES is ready to get back on the broadcaster sometime soon and to MGM+ in USA. In the new season Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West are joined by new cast members Gwilym Lee, Con O’Neill, Mark Rowley, Jack Barton and others.
ORIGINALLY INSPIRED BY
Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same
name, series two returns to action with the troops in Spring 1943. Paddy
Mayne (Jack O’Connell) takes control of the SAS following David
Stirling’s (Connor Swindells) capture, and now attention must turn from
the conflict in North Africa to mainland Europe. But GHQ have cast doubt
over the future of the regiment, while the creation of a second unit
and an influx of new arrivals make things even more difficult for the
men. Can they prove that the SAS remain essential to the war, wherever
it may lead them?
WHO IS IN THE SQUAD NOW?
Gwilym Lee joins the cast as Bill Stirling, David Stirling’s brother and founder of the 2SAS regiment, while Con O’Neill appears as General Montgomery. Theo Barklem-Biggs, Corin Silva, Jacob Ifan, Jacob McCarthy, Stuart Campbell, and Bobby Schofield also return for duty in series two. Among the brigade’s new recruits are Mark Rowley and Jack Barton, who will play SAS members Jock McDiarmid and John Tonkin respectively. Further new cast members include Stuart Thompson, Paolo De Vita, Anna Manuelli, Edward Bennett and Matteo Franco.
Officially the last series of October, together with Marie Antoinette which starts tomorrow in France, is period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series, which starts
The series starts October 30th on BBC
tonight on BBC One and will later on air on Epix in USA as well, stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West,
in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary
circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored.
Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest
and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create
mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team
are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are
astonishingly brave and heroic. On Epix it starts November 13th, on Canal Plus in France December 1st.
MEET DAVID STIRLING
Connor
Swindells is David Stirling in the series, the real-life founder of
the SAS, who when we first meet him in the series is an eccentric young
officer serving with 8 Commando. He is frustrated with the military
authorities and their handling of strategy. This is Connor's first
series lead.
MEET PADDY MAYNE
Jack O'Connell is Paddy Mayne in the series, he was a real-life British army officer and a founding member of the SAS. He is portrayed in the series as something of a live-wire, who is won round by Stirling. O'Connell led The North Water series last year.
MEET JOCK LEWES
Alfie
Allen plays Jock Lewes in the new series. Lewes was the real-life
founding principal training officer of the SAS, who at the start of the
series shares with Stirling his idea of parachuting units of men into
the desert to attack by surprise! Alfie starred in Game of Thrones.
MEET MIKE SADLER
Tom Glynn Carney, who currently can be seen in House of the Dragon as Prince Aegon Targaryen, portrays Mike Sadler in the new series based on a book by Ben Macintyre and will air till a week before Christmas. He was also a real-life figure and one of the first officers to join the SAS.
MEET BILL FRASER
Stunningly
handsome blond hunk Stuart Campbell will portray Bill Fraser in the
new series which was shot during the hellish summer heat of over 50*C down in Morocco
where the crew experienced the same climate as the real SAS soldiers!
Bill was a real-life member of the SAS in the Second World War.
MEET EOIN MCGONIGAL
Dashing Donal Finn, who previously had small roles in other epic shows such as The Wheel of Time and The Witcher, will portray Eoin McGonigal in this new series from BBC and Epix. Like the others, Eoin McGonigal was also a real-life member of the SAS in World War II.
BBC has released a new trailer for their upcoming period set series SAS ROGUE HEROES coming from Steven Knight. The six-part series stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, Sofia Boutella, and Dominic West, in a dramatised account of how the SAS was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Swindells), an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong, is bored.
Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic. The series starts October 30th on BBC One.
STARS AT NOON TRAILER
SENDS JOE ALWYN TO JUNGLE
Stars are out at Noon October 14th
First trailer has been released for the big screen adaptation of Denis Johnson's novel STARS AT NOON which will hit cinemas October 14th starring Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley. This year Cannes Film Festival competitor, follows a young American journalist (Qualley), who falls for a mysterious Englishman (Alwyn) while stranded in Nicaragua (not during the revolution like in the novel, but during today's covid outbreak). Though at first he seems like her best bet at getting out of the country, it is slowly revealed that her affiliation with the Englishman has put both of them in immense danger. Claire Denis took the helm of this one. Check out the trailer below:
It will arrive to Epix and BBC sometime this fall but before they announced the exact date, we have the first teaser for Jack O'Connell, Connor Swindells, Dominic West, Sofia Boutella, Alfie Allen series ROGUE HEROES. The six-part drama is based on Ben Macintyre's SAS: Rogue Heroes book, which charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit.
HAGEN EPIC SERIES
AND MOVIE COMING UP
A couple of years ago I informed you about this one and now the shooting is finally starting this September: production company Constantin and
The project will shoot in Germany and Prague
TV broadcaster RTL are planning an elaborate film and six part series adaptation of HAGEN von Tronje novel by Wolfgang Hohlbein which
combines the Nibelung saga with elements from other myths following
Hagen von Tronje, the dark warrior of the Nibelung saga, now a lonely
hero, and the radiant Siegfried, now an unscrupulous upstart, a
representative of an authoritarian form of government, supported by a
new religion, Christianity. Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben are the executive producers.
STARZ' DANGEROUS LIAISONS
SEE THE BRAND NEW IMAGES
Afterthe first, not overly promising trailer last week, Starz has unveiled today new images via Radio Times from their eight part TV series version of
The series arrives this November
DANGEROUS LIAISONS which willarrive November 6th starring Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Lesley Manville, and Tom Wlaschiha. New images reveal more of Lesley Manville and British singer Paloma Faith, who plays Florence de Regnier!
THE NEW SERIES
is a bold prelude of Laclos’ classic 18th century novel
focusing on the origin story of how his iconic characters, the Marquise
de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, met as passionate young lovers
in Paris on the eve of the revolution. This modern take on a classic
story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation,
seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the
wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their
skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but
of each other. Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton portray the notorious lovers: Camille who is taken in by the current Marquise de Merteuil (Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and
Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently
taken from him. Their on- again off-again love story is the heart of the
series. It’s not love… it’s war. I must admit those two youngsters look
terribly dull and miscast to me, no passion nor talent in them.
New STAR TREK series STRANGE NEW WORLDS has got a launch date of May 5th over at Paramount +
and the first ultra spectacular trailer as well after that gorgeous teaser that I shown you a few weeks ago! It is interesting that the series has already
been renewed for a second season. It will follow episodic adventures of
the Enterprise’s original crew long before James T. Kirk was captain. Anson Mount, Rebecca Romjin, and Ethan Peck will be returning as Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock Celia Rose Gooding will play Uhura, Babs Olasanmokun will play Dr. M’Benga, and Jess Bush will play Christine Chapel; new characters on the bridge include Christina Chong as La'an
Anson Mount takes the lead role of captain Pike
Noonien-Singh, Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas, and Bruce Horak as Hemmer. With other series in the franchise, Discovery and Picard proving
a disappointment with the fans, the audience is having high hopes
New series will be episodic in nature
for
this one which will have episodic stories rather than having a seasonal
plot. That is something that we haven't seen in 17 years ever since Enterprise finished.
SHORT NEWS BULLETIN
In other short news today, VIKINGS: VALHALLA will start shooting season 3 in May with season 2 already shot before with the first one. HOTEL
Hotel Portofino has been sold to more than 55 countries so far
PORTOFINO series got a second season order after becoming a huge hit for Britbox, PBS and Foxtel. And the work on THE WITCHER season 3 has
First look at the Witcher season 3 snowy set
been
announced with the first set photo. It will see Geralt and Yeneffer
taking Ciri to Aretuza, where they discover they’ve landed in a
battlefield of political corruption, dark magic, and treachery.
SAS: ROGUE HEROES
BBC RELEASES FIRST TEASER
The series will arrive this Autumn, but BBC has already released a teaser for their new six part series SAS: ROGUE HEROES set in Cairo, 1941. David Stirling (Connor Swindells) - an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong - is bored. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic. Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, and Dominic West also star.
