‘SAS Rogue Heroes’ Renewed For Season Two By BBC – Deadline

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s SAS Rogue Heroes has been renewed for a second season by the BBC.

The wartime drama, which was picked up for season one by Epix within the U.S., ended prior to now couple of minutes with a “To Be Continued” caption as Jack O’Connell’s character Paddy Mayne took over the Rogue Heroes.

Sequence one adopted David Stirling (Connor Swindells), Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen) and Paddy Mayne (O’Connell) in a dramatized account of how the SAS was fashioned within the darkest days of World Struggle Two, with fellow forged members together with Dominic West, Sofia Boutella, Tom Glynn-Carney and Theo Barklem-Biggs. Sequence two will present viewers what comes subsequent for the SAS, following a dramatic flip of occasions.

The present’s launch turned one of many BBC’s high 5 drama launches of the yr with 3.8M viewers, beating all UK launches for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ this yr, in line with Barb knowledge.

After 28 days, episode one had accrued an viewers of virtually 10M and all episodes have been obtainable on iPlayer from episode one.

“After the roaring success of Rogue Heroes I’m delighted to be embarking on the following chapter of the story,” stated Knight. “Sequence two will take the SAS into mainland Europe and can take our heroes to the bounds of their endurance.”

Banijay label Kudos is producer and Banijay Rights is worldwide distributor. SAS Rogue Heroes collection one was written and govt produced by Knight, directed by Tom Shankland and produced by Stephen Smallwood. Government producers for Kudos have been Karen Wilson, Martin Haines and Emma Kingsman-Lloyd, with Tommy Bulfin as govt producer for the BBC.