835k viewers, beating the block, a good launch.
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A great launch but is concerning that a show in its 10th season beats a new show like this in the key demos. You would think with the AFL promotions it would have done better in the key demos.
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Episode 2:
In tonight’s test of FEAR, the SAS Australia star recruits had to:
- Tackle a daunting climb and speedy forward descent down a steep 60m rockface in teams of two
- Face off in a brutal game of Murderball (rugby with a tyre and no rules) to show they can control aggression
- Endure their first “Beastings” – a relentless physical thrashing from the DS (when recruits are drained physically it affects them mentally – Am I fit enough? Is this course for me? Have I got what it takes?)
Struggling on the course and rattled by her interrogation, glamour model Arabella Del Busso (“ I’m honestly not the only person in Australia who has told a white lie ”) was the second recruit to VW.
Jackson Warne revealed he’d tried more foods in the past two days than he’d eaten in his entire life.
Shayna Jack took a couple of hard hits in Murderball, fainted and needed medical assistance.
Firass Dirani again caught the attention of the DS for all the wrong reasons and in interrogation with the DS was told to STFU and change his attitude.
Recruits were punished for Firass’ actions with an uphill running beasting. It was too much for Schapelle Corby who became the third recruit to VW from the course (“ I came to open doors myself and start to live in society better than I have been; it’s time to create a new life for myself ”).
MONDAY 7.30PM – EP 3 “MINDSET”
Recruits are pushed beyond their pain barriers in a severe night beasting; one mistake could be deadly in a gruelling marksman task; and Mitchell Johnson and Candice Warner face interrogation.
I caught up with the first episode. I thought it was good. It is something a bit different. But I wonder if it could work with regular people rather than celebrities.
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Britain has both a regular version and a celebrity version so it would definitely work.
I’d definitely like to see ordinary Australians involved on the next season if it’s renewed. Just make sure there’s more incentives that challenging themselves/rehabilitating themselves.
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I thought it was supposed to be regular Australians to begin with but they changed it upon their return to Australia. I just don’t know whether it would have launched as successfully without the celebrities.
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Correct, that’s why it changed.
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From the initial press release in last year’s upfronts, it seems that the all-celebrity concept was the original format they considered and eventually proceeded with.
SAS: WHO DARES WINS
Fourteen brave Aussie celebrities are about to embark on the toughest test of their lives – attempting to overcome the intensive SAS selection process. Over two weeks, an elite group of ex-Special Forces
soldiers, led by Chief Instructor Ant Middleton , will put these stars through an extraordinary series of physical and psychological tests, each from the real SAS selection process. Cut off from the outside world at a secret base in a foreign country, they will eat, sleep and train together in spectacular and punishing terrain with no allowances made for their celebritystatus. As they progress through the gruelling course, they’ll be forced to confront surprising truths about themselves to discover their real character. Some will reach breaking point and withdraw. Which recruits will tough it out to the end?
SAS: WHO DARES WINS is produced by Screentime, a Banijay Group company, based on a Minnow Films format, for Channel Seven.
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Ok I wonder who was involved in the series they started filming in NZ.
Schapelle, Roxy and the Honey Badger were mentioned from the start.
They weren’t the ones that went to NZ. I am pretty sure the ones in NZ were regular Australians. They were only mentioned once it started filming here in Australia.
Edit: You are right they must have taken parts from their initial shootings or completely reshot it. Apparently Jana Pittman initially signed up and was filming in NZ. She isn’t in it is she?
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She had to withdraw because she fell pregnant.
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No surprise that the show was today renewed for a second season.
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Seven needs different shows like SAS ? and other international concepts not reviving stuff that was off other networks.
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What like Ultimate Tag and Holey Moley? I think 7 has done a good job at bringing in new concepts. Probably more so than any other network.
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And while they’ve had a string of flops at least they’ve had a go at producing some new shows
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The celebrities went to NZ. The cast is largely unchanged. They were only a couple of days out from beginning filming when they had to return to Australia. The first promo and some interviews had already been filmed. The first promo shown in August was the NZ promo as filming in Australia had only just begun. Some of the interviews filmed in NZ feature, with some filmed here. Other than that, everything was filmed in Australia. At the very least, Roxy, Molly, Erin, Schapelle, Merrick, Firrass, Shayna and Sabrina were in NZ.
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I thought Schapelle was called up weeks before filming here in Australia
Tuesday 24 November - SAS: UK will premiere on Seven at 8:40pm
Twenty-five men are sent to Morocco’s unforgiving Atlas Mountains to see if they have what it takes, physically and mentally, to pass a unique version of SAS Selection.
Original series name is SAS: Who Dares Wins; Seven will be showing Series 3, seen in the UK in 2018.
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