‘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 previously jiffy with a “To Be Continued” caption as Jack O’Connell’s character Paddy Mayne took over the Rogue Heroes.

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

The present’s launch grew to become one of many BBC’s high 5 drama launches of the 12 months with 3.8M viewers, beating all UK launches for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ this 12 months, in line with Barb knowledge.

After 28 days, episode one had accrued an viewers of just about 10M and all episodes have been accessible 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,” mentioned Knight. “Collection 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 sequence one was written and govt produced by Knight, directed by Tom Shankland and produced by Stephen Smallwood. Govt producers for Kudos have been Karen Wilson, Martin Haines and Emma Kingsman-Lloyd, with Tommy Bulfin as govt producer for the BBC.