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Sex Education's Connor Swindells stars in first look pictures and trailer for SAS Rogue Heroes

The new series from the Peaky Blinders creator is nearly here.

Sex Education's Connor Swindells is starring in a new TV series titled SAS Rogue Heroes, which has just released a brand new trailer and some first-look images.

Coming from the mind of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the series features Swindells, Skins alumni Jack O'Connell, Game of Thrones' Alfie Allen, The Mummy's Sofia Boutella and Brassic's Dominic West larking around in the desert during the Second World War, blowing up enemy vehicles and artillery.

The show doesn't seem to take itself too seriously, with the trailer backed by a cover of 'No More Heroes' by The Stranglers and the actors delivering their lines with a slight wink and a nudge.

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The six-part series tells the story of the formation of the Special Air Service and their escapades in Egypt. Swindells' officer David Stirling is our focus character, being brought into the SAS after being bored out of his mind in hospital due to an accident.

"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," the synopsis reads.

"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."

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Knight himself said: "It has been a privilege to work on a project which tells the story of a renegade band of soldiers who used wit and imagination as much as firepower to halt the march of Fascism across North Africa during the darkest days of World War Two.

"This is a war story like no other, told in a way that is at once inspired by the facts and true to the spirit of this legendary brigade of misfits and adventurers."

SAS Rogue Heroes will come to BBC One later this year, and Epix in the US.

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