Overview
- The closing episode put the final recruits through a simulated hostage scenario featuring blindfolds, stress positions and unsettling noise over roughly 12 hours.
- Two finalists voluntarily withdrew during the last phase, after which the Directing Staff announced who had passed the course.
- This series was filmed in North Africa with teams drawn from the UK and Australia, mirroring elements of real Special Forces selection.
- Contestant Ben Cohen discussed severe hearing loss and described facing “horrible mental battles” during an interrogation overseen by a former SAS interrogator.
- Earlier in the run, Ofcom logged about 1,126 complaints over a war‑simulation segment featuring keffiyehs, which Channel 4 defended as regionally appropriate attire.