From Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the show tells the creation story of the elite special forces unit. 

It feels like SAS Rogue Heroes has been a long time coming. With the show’s first teaser dropping back in April, we’re still only as the “coming soon” stage.

However, the BBC have just delivered a belter of a trailer so we’re guessing the air date must be a matter of weeks away.

The show boasts an impressive cast, including Connor Swindells (Sex Education, Vigil), Jack O’Connell, Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Dominic West. The six-part series is based on Ben Macintyre’s book and dramatizes the special forces regiment’s remarkable genesis during the darkest days of World War Two.

Here’s the synopsis:

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.

Inspired by true events…

While the first teaser was a brief 30 seconds, this one luxuriates in a full minute; we meet the show’s main players, tagged as the dreamer, the creator and the maverick. Against the stunning location work and explosive action scenes, these tags gives the show an almost comic book feel. We also get the utterance of the regiment’s famous motto: “who dares wins”.

The music in the trailer is a version of the apt No More Heroes by The Stranglers. It’s been specially recorded for the show by Skin, lead singer of the band Skunk Anansie.

SAS Rogue Heroes is directed by Tom Shankland (The Serpent), with Stephen Smallwood producing. Karen Wilson, Martin Haines and Emma Kingsman-Lloyd executive produce for Kudos, and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC.

The show will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer – we’ll update when there’s a start date.