About this season
Selection for the SAS is one of the world's toughest job interviews and physical fitness is only the starting point. What's really being tested is psychological resilience and character as candidates undergo sleep deprivation, interrogation and a series of increasingly complex mind games. In this programme, five ex-special forces soldiers re-create tasks from the SAS's secret selection process, putting 30 civilian men through the ultimate test of their physical and - more importantly - their psychological resilience.
Episodes (6)
1. Episode 1
Aired 10 April 2022 • 45 min
A new elite training team welcome 20 brave recruits to the searing, epic Jordanian desert, with an intense start crossing a ravine balancing on a rope suspended 165 feet above the ground, and escaping a room full of CS gas.
2. Episode 2
Aired 17 April 2022 • 45 min
The recruits pair up for a 50-foot freefall off a cliff. They also face a brutal beasting in the desert, which pushes some recruits to the edge, and are forced to make a split-second decision about whether to fire in a combat situation.
3. Episode 3
Aired 24 April 2022 • 45 min
The recruits try a seven-metre backwards dive and face an elimination sickener on a major sand dune. After hand-to-hand combat in murderball, they're ambushed while driving back.
4. Episode 4
Aired 1 May 2022 • 45 min
After a set of tasks designed to test trust, including hand-to-hand combat and a terrifying abseil, Shylla's pushed to confront how a lifetime of racism has made her withdraw.
5. Episode 5
Aired 8 May 2022 • 45 min
After a beasting on base, the teams are pushed to their physical limits as they race to pull vehicles weighing 1000kg from the sand while under indirect simulated fire. Calls from home unsettle some and prompt an honest reflection of the cost of war.
6. Episode 6
Aired 15 May 2022 • 45 min
In the series finale, the last recruits are subjected to all kinds of punishing interrogation techniques. In the most feared phase of the course, they receive severe punishments, being buried alive, and thrown in water tanks, to force a confession.