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PHILIPPINES, AUGUST 24, 2012 – The Emmy®
nominated hit action drama series STRIKE
BACK returns in a second season to CINEMAX on Friday, September 7, 2012 at
10pm. Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of
the Lycans) joins the cast this season, with Philip Winchester (Crusoe) and Sullivan Stapleton (Animal Kingdom) reprising their lead
roles.
A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller with
storylines ripped from today’s headlines, STRIKE
BACK is a 45-minute drama focusing on
two members of a top-secret
British anti-terrorist organization known as Section 20: Michael Stonebridge
(Winchester), a married Brit who has moved from field work to training recruits
as season two opens, and Damien Scott (Stapleton), a US Delta Force operative,
discharged on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, who made the most of his
second chance to help Section 20 bring down an international terrorist last
season.
Again co-produced by CINEMAX and the UK's Sky
TV, the ten-episode second season follows Stonebridge, Scott and new boss
Rachel Dalton (Mitra) as they scour Africa in pursuit of a fresh covey of
criminals, each vying for possession of a box of valuable nuclear triggers that
could launch Armageddon if they fall in the wrong hands.
This new season of STRIKE BACK will feature
two previously unreleased songs from legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s
upcoming album “Tempest,” to be released on September 11. “Early Roman Kings”
made its world premiere in a music video promo featuring scenes from the new
season, which can be seen on cinemax.com, while “Scarlet Town” will be featured
in the end credits.
Rashan
Stone (Episodes) and Michelle Lukes (Alexander) return as Sinclair and Richmond, as does Alexandra Moen (Hotel Babylon) as Stonebridge’s wife
Kerry. Guest stars include Charles Dance (Game
of Thrones), Shane Taylor (Band of
Brothers), Vincent Regan (300, Clash of the Titans) and Natalie Becker
(Disgrace).
Shot on location in South Africa for
storyline locations including Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique, Algeria, Zimbabwe,
England, and South Africa itself, the production works with a team of
consultants who are in the field of counterterrorism and the military,
contributing to the realistic tone of the show. In addition, the cast endured
nearly a month of military training and tactics to prepare for the shoot.
CINEMAX’s two
seasons of STRIKE BACK are a
continuation of the six-episode Strike
Back that aired on Sky TV in 2010 and are based on the novels by Chris
Ryan, pen name of a real-life former British Special Forces operative.
According to Los Angeles Times, STRIKE BACK “shoots high with plenty of
action and thrills and a simmering bromance that’s fun to watch,” while New
York Daily News hailed the series as an “unapologetic, fist-pumping non-stop
action thriller”. The Washington Post described the show as a “stylish and
addictive new counterterrorism series”.
STRIKE
BACK is a Cinemax Presentation in association with British Sky
Broadcasting Limited; a Left Bank Pictures Production; executive producers,
Andy Harries for Left Bank and Huw Kennair-Jones for Sky; series producer,
Michael Casey.
New episodes of the series air weekly every
Friday at 10pm on CINEMAX.
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