SAS Australia

TV.Cynic · September 6, 2021, 12:11am

SAS - Season 2

SAS Australia declassified

Your guide to the new season is here

The highly anticipated new season of SAS Australia starts next Monday, 13 September at 7.30pm on Channel 7 and 7plus.

These Aussie celebrities have volunteered to put their privileged lives behind and embark on the toughest test of their lives - a condensed version of the Special Forces selection course, a brutal process which will physically and mentally strip them back to the core.

In punishing conditions, these recruits will be subjected to extreme physical endurance, sleep deprivation, interrogation and psychological testing, with no allowances or exceptions made for their celebrity status or gender.

They’ll need to push past their fears and their limits in the hope of passing SAS selection.

No other test asks as much, or means as much, to the few who make it through.

The star recruits with something to prove on TV’s toughest test are:

Alicia Molik – Tennis Champion
Bonnie Anderson – Singer / Actor
Brynne Edelsten – Socialite
Dan Ewing – Actor
Emma Husar – Former Politician
Erin Holland – TV Presenter
Heath Shaw – AFL Star
Isabelle Cornish – Actor
Jana Pittman – Dual Olympian
Jessica Peris – Sprinter
Jett Kenny – Ironman
John Steffensen – Olympic Medallist
Kerri Pottharst – Beach Volleyball Olympian
Koby Abberton – Bra Boy
Manu Feildel – Celebrity Chef
Mark Philippoussis – Tennis Legend
Pete Murray – Musician
Sam Burgess – NRL Star

The gripping new season of SAS Australia premieres next Monday, 13 September at 7.30pm on Channel 7 and 7plus.

Under the direction of elite ex-Special Forces soldiers Ant Middleton, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox and Ollie Ollerton, recruits will face a series of physical and psychological tests from the real SAS selection process – on the most gruelling course ever seen in the UK or Australia.

Faced with extreme challenges in unforgiving terrain, these famous faces will eat, sleep and be tested in punishing conditions, with no allowances or exceptions made for their celebrity status or gender.

As they’re subjected to extreme physical endurance, sleep deprivation, interrogation and psychological testing, these men and women will need to push past their fears and their limits in the hope of passing SAS selection.

Some will reach breaking point and withdraw. Who has the mental strength to tough it out to the end?

TV.Cynic · September 6, 2021, 12:12am

The recruits

JohnsonTV · September 6, 2021, 12:24am

Is that a former school or factory?

JohnsonTV · September 12, 2021, 11:29pm

TV.Cynic · September 13, 2021, 10:02pm

Monday:

Tonight on SAS Australia, 18 celebrities volunteered to put their privileged lives behind and embark on the toughest test of their lives – a condensed, but very real, version of the Special Forces selection course.

Under the direction of Chief Instructor Ant Middleton and the DS (Directing Staff) Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox and Ollie Ollerton, these star recruits were forced to endure a shocking tear gassing exercise before even entering the compound, the first step in stripping them of their egos.

“Everyone thinks they’re hardcore until they get f*cking gassed,” said Middleton.

Surprised by the biggest recruit reacting so strongly to the tear gas, the DS brought #16 Sam Burgess into the Mirror Room for questioning, where he proceeded to come clean about the personal events which brought him there.

“I just completed 28 days of rehab because my last 18 months have been crazy,” said Burgess. “Everything I’ve touched turned to sh*t, I’ve lost it all.”

The recruits’ world of pain and suffering continued, with a dangerous test of endurance – a helicopter ladder crossing high above a lake – which proved too challenging for some.

One of the few to successfully complete the task, recruit #17 Alicia Molik, received a brutal dressing down from Middleton after a blatant display of showboating. As punishment, all recruits faced their first beasting back on the Parade Square.

Collapsing under the pressure, #3 Brynne Edelsten became the first recruit to VW (voluntarily withdraw) from the course, stating: “Even though I’m disappointed I’m leaving, I know that I need to because my body is not strong enough to keep doing these things.

“But I have no regrets about this, if anything it encourages me to keep going and see what I can do in the future,” said Edelsten.

Tuesday: Tomorrow 7.30pm, recruits face a terrifying test of courage, 30 metres above ground, before a claustrophobic, underground wormhole task which gets smaller and smaller the further in they go. Plus, Emma Husar exposed and Erin Holland lives every woman’s worst nightmare.

JohnsonTV · September 13, 2021, 11:23pm

Ant and Ollie are back in Australia and currently in hotel quarantine. It means production of the new season of SAS Australia should start in coming weeks.

TV.Cynic · September 14, 2021, 11:28am

Didn’t take long for Seven to find their own cheating scandal.

Brekkie · September 14, 2021, 1:21pm

Prediction: It won’t outrage Australia.

JeepersCreepers · September 14, 2021, 2:31pm

Nor did they really cheat…

VictorianSun · September 14, 2021, 2:42pm

I can’t stand all these shows making stories about cheating. Just show the bloody show and people enjoy it!

JohnsonTV · September 16, 2021, 9:23am

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TV.Cynic · September 21, 2021, 9:37am

SAS Australia recruits viewers to Seven

Launch episode up 41% in total viewers, up 58% in 25 to 54s
Live streaming on 7plus up 72%

The new season of SAS Australia on the Seven Network has attracted strong audience numbers across all screens since it launched last week.

With consolidated viewing over seven days, including broadcast catch-up and online streaming audiences, the launch episode on Monday 13 September averaged 1.36 million total viewers, up 41% or 392,000 viewers, on its overnight audience. In 25 to 54s, the first episode increased its audience by 58% across seven days.

An average of 1.28 million viewers watched the first four episodes on Channel 7 and 7plus, including 985,000 broadcast viewers nationally and 667,000 in the capital cities. The new season has reached 4.27 million people since it started, with an additional 450,000 on 7plus.

SAS Australia , which sees 18 celebrities put through the show’s toughest, most unforgiving selection course yet, has lifted its timeslot audience on Channel 7 by 42% year-on-year and 66% in 25 to 54s.

On 7plus, audiences have also soared. Across the first four episodes, an average of 43,000 viewers watched live on 7plus alongside the television broadcast, up 72% on the live streaming average for the same episodes last year.

Harriet · September 22, 2021, 5:01pm

The tumbleweed in this thread is real.

I’ve actually been enjoying this season quite a lot though one thing really irked me in Episode 5.

When Kerri was getting taken into her interrogation and her masked was ripped off, why did Ant suddenly feel the need to rip apart Kerri’s looks?

Saying she aged ten years in a matter of days and asking her age and basically saying she looked rough or hard for her age. Why does her physical appearance have to be mentioned? How does her looks affect her performance and ability to perform tasks and missions?

Then it was the questions about her lack of partner and asking her if she was lonely. Why does that matter? Kerri was already vulnerable when her eyes visibly welled up over Ant’s comments about her age, so there was no need to probe further to get a reaction. Also why had no other female been asked about her sex life in a demeaning manner, let alone a male?

Ant’s whole interrogation was just off. Usually he’ll give them a pep talk and wish them well and offer some encouragement, instead he had distain dripping in his voice and told her she needed to be better and she wasn’t good enough. Oh to be a he-man male where their egos are gently soothed and their wounded pride expertly caressed, as witnessed during Heath’s interrogation when he royally effed up.

As usual another show reinforces the putrid stereotype that women are only of value to society and men if they are good looking and youthful. Then in a double wammy the other crass old age stereotype that a woman can only be emotionally and sexually fulfilled if she has a man in her life.

JohnsonTV · September 28, 2021, 12:53pm

Herald Sun reports that former AFL star and media commentator Wayne Carey could take part in the next season of SAS Australia. Other names rumoured to be joining Carey are sporting stars Willie Mason, Sonny Bill Williams, Ian Thorpe, Pete Evans and former Bachelor Locky Gilbert.

Tom_TV7 · September 28, 2021, 12:53pm

I thought it was supposed to be a normal civilian based season rather than another ‘celebrity’ season?

Andrew · September 28, 2021, 6:32pm

If there’s any show you’d want Pete Evans to be on, this would be it.

Harriet · September 29, 2021, 7:01pm

Why? He’d quit the first episode and be a total disappointment.

I was looking forward to seeing him on I’m a Celeb, only because they are so deathly dull with their kumbaya moments and seeing his shenanigans would have riled people up. Honestly that would have been his best platform.

Surprised 7 never bothered to have him on BB VIP.

Brekkie · September 29, 2021, 8:38pm

Playing devils advocate here participants usually come into this show with insecurities and experiences they are in some way looking to overcome and this show (in the UK at least) has always been far more about mental health and physical health. Therefore in the scenario you describe I suspect they are aware of her insecurities and are looking to bring them out in the interrogations to help break her down and then build her up again (aka make content for the show).

On the other hand though the concerns you raise kind of line up with some of the unverified rumours as to why Ant will no longer be on the UK version.

JohnsonTV · September 30, 2021, 10:28pm