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Hit BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes to return for a second series". BBC Media Centre. 4 December 2022 . Retrieved 6 December 2022. A master at setting the pulse racing, Macintyre relates stories of raw courage and daring by extraordinary men (Tony Rennell Daily Mail)

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SAS Rogue Heroes is distributed internationally by Banijay Rights, which has sold the series to multiple global broadcasters and streaming services including MGM+ in the US, HBO Max in Europe, Prime Video in Canada, SBS in Australia, STARZPLAY in the Middle East, Paramount+ in Germany and Canal+ in France. Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony Beevor World Cup wins 2022 in record breaking year for BBC iPlayer". BBC Media Centre. 31 January 2023 . Retrieved 31 January 2023. 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 ] Stirling was very brave, but he was not cut out for being a guerrilla fighter, so he willed himself into each operation. I yield to no one in my admiration for David Stirling as a man of physical courage, but really, he was soon out of his depth. I suspect he realised he was out of his depth.” Did Churchill’s son really join an SAS mission?According to the Irish Post, Eoin McGonigal was Mayne’s best friend and possibly his only confidante. Accompanied by Mayne's shyness around women and drunken outbursts, historians have questioned the relationship between the pair. Some believed Mayne managed his feeling with alcohol, because he was a repressed homosexual. On 4 December 2022, the BBC confirmed that a second series had been commissioned, based upon SAS operations in the European theatre of war. [5] Premise [ edit ] 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] As military historian Antony Beevor noted, whilst events surrounding the creation of the SAS "certainly defy belief", it is true that "some liberties with the precise record" were taken – for example, in the scripting of a romantic association between David Stirling and Mansour, the French intelligence agent. However, his opinion was that these were "mainly additions, fleshing out characters and context", rather than being significant "distortions" of the facts. [3]

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Hardy was never slated for the role, which was always going to be O'Connell's. Series writer Steven Knight told The Times the show would highlight the psychology of the men behind it. SAS: Rogue Heroes was the sixth most-watched UK drama series of 2022, and the fourth most popular of the year on the BBC. [15] Historical accuracy [ edit ] Members of the ' French Squadron SAS' ( 1ere Compagnie de Chasseurs Parachutistes) in Tunisia. Previously a company of Free French paratroopers, the French SAS squadron were the first of a range of units "acquired" by Major Stirling as the SAS expanded. 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]According to Den of Geek, there is speculation Mayne’s reputation as a troublemaker could be to blame - he was prone to regular outbursts of violence, especially after drinking. Other sources have argued that downgrading a Victoria Cross to a fourth DSO was standard practice, and Mayne was not the only soldier this happened to. Rogue Heroes: Season 1". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022 . Retrieved 16 November 2022. Told with deceptive brilliance . . . one the finest books of its kind' Evening Standard Read more Details A boxer, a Northern Ireland rugby star and reportedly an excellent shot, Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne went into the Second World War with many ideal qualities for a soldier, and also had a reputation as a rambunctious personality. Mortimer, Gavin (16 December 2022). "Rogues Heroes: What Prince Harry has in common with the SAS's founder". The Spectator.

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The Jewish man who shot up the explosives was Peter Haas. His act of heroism enabled Augustin Jordan to escape. “He decided to try and save us by sacrificing himself,” Jordan later said. Did Germans soldiers hunt down and capture David Stirling? I don’t think Mayne took Stirling very seriously as a guerrilla fighter. Over time this embittered Stirling. I think he appointed Mayne as a training officer to take him out of action and claim successes of his own, which he didn’t do.” The narrative begins in a Cairo hospital in 1941, when, after a failed training exercise, British Army officer David Stirling has the idea of creating a special commando unit which could operate deep behind enemy lines. [1] Cast [ edit ]

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Also in the first episode, Stirling and Lewes take the plunge with their daring, first-of-its-kind parachute jump in the desert. Stirling’s parachute tears, causing him to plummet towards the ground and temporarily paralyse himself. That’s all true. Stirling was burdened with health problems for the rest of his life from the spinal injury he suffered in that drop. Further new cast members for series two include Paolo De Vita (Anonymous, La Grande Guerra del Salento), Anna Manuelli (Blocco 181, Pezzi unici), Edward Bennett (Industry, Save Me Too) and Matteo Franco. 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. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. Paddy Mayne didn't ever confirm his sexuality, and rumours he was gay appear to be speculation arising from authors and historians that has never been substantiated. In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines.

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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+. 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]