Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week - The Professionals (2021)
Synopsis
18 celebrity recruits take part in a grueling special forces selection course designed by former members of Ireland’s elite Special Forces unit, the Army Ranger Wing. Over five days, the celebrity recruits will be required to pass numerous rigorous physical and mental tests. Surviving on two to three hours of sleep a night they will have to overcome cold-water events, height tests and claustrophobic challenges as well as various trials of strength, stamina and determination.
First Air Date: 2021-09-08
Last Air Date: 2022-10-19
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 13
Networks: RTÉ One
Top Cast
- Peter Stringer as Self
- Laura Nolan as Self
- Stephanie Roche as Self
- Ryan Andrews as Self
- Marc O'Neill as Self
- Eamonn McGee as Self
- Niamh Cullan as Self
- Valerie Mulcahy as Self
- Rory O’Connor as Self
- Andrew Trimble as Self
Seasons
Season 1 (2021)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Episode 1
The eighteen celebrity recruits are transported by high speed rib to the new Hell Week base, an abandoned military base in east Cork. Waiting for them at the jetty are the course instructors (DS), who give them a short, sharp blast of what they can expect. The recruits, who for five days will have no contact with the outside world, are left in no doubt this will be an experience like no other.
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Ep. 2: Episode 2
The next phase of the course sees the recruits pushed to their absolute physical limits, with back-to-back events including boarding a large ship as it sails through Cork Harbour
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Ep. 3: Episode 3
Army training challenge in which civilian recruits are put through a gruelling special forces selection course
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Ep. 4: Episode 4
The challenge continues with a boat race across the busy shipping lanes of Cork harbour, before the recruits are paired off to box one another in two one-minute bouts
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Ep. 5: Episode 5
The recruits start the hardest test on the Hell Week course - Foreman Aftman - a timed mountain march with over 50kg of kit of their backs
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Ep. 6: Episode 6
The programme reaches its final phase. Of the 18 recruits who started, only four candidates now remain, and the courses culminate in one final event
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