'Rogue Heroes' Adds Several More A-List Faces For Season 2

Perhaps it should have been a no-brainer that when Steven Knight finished Peaky Blinders as a TV series, his next period drama would also be a massive hit. Maybe, had it not been about World War II or been named for the British Special Air Service, streaming services in the U.S. would have taken more notice. Instead,  the small-time Epix streaming service, owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, scooped it up for a song, and (after they were bought hook, line, and sinker by Amazon), it's now one of the biggest hits streaming on the newly renamed MGM+, a streamer few in America have heard of and even less have.

Knight was inspired to create the series after reading Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, with is a non-fiction dramatized account of the origins of the U.K.'s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS. The division was created in the middle of WWII, in 1941, right around the time the allies were losing badly, especially the U.K. Their mission was mainly being dropped behind enemy lines in small bands across North Africa and Axis Europe, staging rescues of POWs and fighting is super close combat with Nazis. The series stars several major actors playing real-life figures from the time.

The good news is that Amazon has deep pockets to market a show (when it actually bothers to), and making MGM+ at least respectable is in the game plan, so there's a good chance Anglophiles might find this series when it returns to the states. Considering how many major A-listers are joining the already-stellar cast for the second season, chances are rising it might break through the glut of entertainment to find an audience.