Strike Back (TV series)

Chris Ryan's Strike Back
Blu-ray cover for the series.
Genre	Action Drama Military
Written by	Jed Mercurio Robert Murphy Alan Whiting
Directed by	Edward Hall Daniel Percival
Starring	Richard Armitage Andrew Lincoln Orla Brady Shelley Conn Colin Salmon Jodhi May
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	6 (List of episodes)
Production
Executiveproducer(s)	Andy Harries Elaine Pyke
Producer(s)	Andrew Benson
Location(s)	South Africa
Running time	45 minutes approx
Productioncompany(s)	Left Bank Pictures
Distributor	BSkyB BBC Worldwide
Broadcast
Original channel	Sky1
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original run	5 May 2010 ? 19 May 2010
Chronology
Followed by	Strike Back: Project Dawn (2011)

Chris Ryan's Strike Back is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan. It was produced by Left Bank Pictures for Sky1. The cast of Strike Back is led by Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln, also starring Orla Brady, Shelley Conn, Colin Salmon and Jodhi May, including a variety of guest appearances including Toby Stephens, Ewen Bremner, Dhaffer L'Abidine, Shaun Parkes and Alexander Siddig. The series follows John Porter (Armitage), a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

The series ran on a multi-million pound budget, and was filmed on location in South Africa, particularly in Gauteng. Ryan became a series consultant.Strike Back commenced airing on 5 May 2010 with two episodes showing a week. The first episode received unofficial overnight ratings of almost 400,000 viewers in the United Kingdom, which increased to just over one million according to the more official Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. It was met with generally positive reviews; comments of the series ranged from a positive "British action series that packs a Die Hard-style thrill around every corner," to a more negative "pathetic male fantasy". It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 7 June 2010. A 10-part second series, known asStrike Back: Project Dawn, a co-production between Sky and the American network Cinemax, was first broadcast in August 2011. A third series ofStrike Back, also to consist of 10 parts, will be released in 2012.^[1]

Contents   [hide]  1 Series overview 2 Cast and characters 3 Production 4 Release and reception 4.1 Release and ratings 4.2 Critical reception 5 Episodes 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit]Series overview

The series takes place in a six-episode format. It follows the actions of John Porter (Richard Armitage), a former SAS Sergeant, and Hugh Collinson (Andrew Lincoln), a Section 20 officer in the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Both of them took part in a botched operation on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq where two soldiers in their unit were killed. The series is divided on three main story lines that take place seven years later. The first two episodes focus on the kidnapping of Katie Dartmouth (Orla Brady), a British journalist, outside Basra, Iraq. Porter is redrafted to rescue her. The next two episodes take place in Zimbabwe, where the Government accuses the UK of orchestrating a plot to assassinate Robert Mugabe; Porter is to enter the same prison in which the apparent shooter is being held and aid in breaking him out. The last two episodes take place in Afghanistan andPakistan, where a computer hacker is responsible for killing several American troops in Helmand Province. A loose arc also takes place during the series concerning who killed the soldiers.^[2]

[edit]Cast and characters

Richard Armitage plays series protagonist John Porter. Porter served with the SAS until he was discharged after he saved a boy who was believed to have murdered two soldiers in his unit following a rescue operation the night before the Iraq invasion. He is later brought back into service by Section 20 seven years later. He is married to Diane, and has a daughter, Alexandra. Armitage described Porter as a "damaged hero",^[3] and "sort of like Lucas North, only on some kind of go-faster drug."^[4] In order to fit in to the role, Armitage had to "bulk up for the role,"^[5]and performed a lot of training for about ten weeks in the UK, and then flew to Johannesburg the day after filming the eighth series of Spooks wrapped up, where he proceeded with more training.^[6] He was trained from "how to hold a gun to how you can run through a door without getting your head blown off."^[5] Armitage had not trained as hard as in the past; the intensity of such training almost made him pass out after the first workout, stating "filmingSpooks is demanding, but nowhere near as physical as this."^[3] Armitage performed most of his own stunts.^[6]

Andrew Lincoln plays Hugh Collinson, former soldier in Porter's unit and has since become the head of Section 20. Lincoln was signed onto the role because he thought the series was a "great story", and that his character was "completely re-written from the book." Out of the cast, the weapons instructor told Lincoln that he was the most instinctive he ever worked with.^[7]

Orla Brady plays Katie Dartmouth, a British war correspondent who was kidnapped in Basra by the "Sword of Islam", an Iraqi terrorist group. To play Dartmouth, Brady used her inspiration from real life BBC war correspondent Orla Guerin. During the filming of Dartmouth's holding, a male stand-in with a wig was used as a stunt double.^[8] The crew also added oil and dirt on Brady's hair every morning. Brady stated that she liked playing extremes, and thought Dartmouth is "grown up" compared to Siobhan Dhillion, the character Brady portrayed in Mistresses.^[3]

Shelley Conn plays Danni Prendiville, an officer with Section 20. Porter started an affair with her after he was redrafted into service. She signed on for the role because she "thought the concept of the scripts was very clever and once I heard who was involved it didn't take me long to sign up." In researching for her role, Conn had somewhat of a military background since her father and uncle both served in the British Army, and had since had a base understanding of military life.^[9]

Colin Salmon plays James Middleton, a civil servant who sits between the British government and the 

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