BAD LADS ARMY: EXTREME part 2

16 July, 2006 by The_Boss

ITV1 Tuesday 18th July 2006 9:00pm to 10:00pm

Thirty more lads face an almighty battle to turn their lives around with a dose of 1950s National Service training.

In Bad Lads Army: Extreme, the recruits face the most daunting challenge to date – training to be Paras and a terrifying 3,500 foot solo parachute jump.

The bad boys selected this time around are the toughest, lippiest, baddest bunch yet. With thieves, vandals, fraudsters and ASBOs in their midst, the 18-24 year-olds lined up for the show have notched up over 2000 days in prison, 2,500 hours of community service and over £30,000 in fines.

Their criminal way of life has cost the tax-payer more than £1 million – that’s the equivalent of four extra Bobbies on the beat for every police force in Great Britain.

Tasked with turning the lads around will be Company Sergeant Major Julian Whatley and Platoon Sergeant Alastair Rae who will be supported by fearsome corporals Joe Murray and ‘Nooky’ Richard Nauyokas.

In Episode Two:Courage the recruits are pushed to physical and mental breaking point as the military put the self-professed hard-lads’ mettle to the test. A fiendish psychological trick involving a blindfold and a 15 foot roof top quickly reveals the cowardly and lilly-livered – but that’s just the beginning. Suspended high above the forest floor, exercise ‘Long Drop’, a vertigo inducing course of ropes, wires and beams, proves the ultimate test of the lads’ courage.

It’s no wonder that a surprise hygiene inspection uncovers a string of skid-marks in the boys’ military issue underwear.

16-stone Andrew Jimson is shaped more like a bouncing bomb than an airborne soldier. Terrified of heights, he’s faced with a stark choice: find the courage to conquer his darkest fear – or fail. Aspiring gangster Shaz Nawaz discovers that he doesn’t have the stomach for killing. And rebel without a clue Raymond Impey finds out there are even scarier things than jumping from a plane when he goes head to head with the man in charge of camp discipline – the dreaded Provost Sergeant Tim Weston.

Tasked with turning the lads around are Company Sergeant Major Julian Whatley and Platoon Sergeant Alastair Rae who are supported by fearsome corporals Joe Murray and ‘Nooky’ Richard Nauyokas.

New staff in this series include pretty Provost Sergeant Clerk Susan Tucker, Physical Training Instructor (PTI) Jack Newton, Relief Corporal James Bush and Medical Clerk Jennifer Jane Adams.

The lads are split into two sections – Red and Blue - in the fictional regiment making up the Pegasus Platoon (motto: Fugite fures fures omnes which means "Fly all ye thieves"). Blue Section is led by Corporal Nauyokas, Red Section by Corporal Murray. The climax of the training – and the series – will be the terrifying parachute jump. But with no more than 15 seats on the plane, only one of the Sections will be able jump to glory and redemption in the final episode.


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BAD LADS ARMY: EXTREME is produced by Twenty Twenty Television for ITV1.

The executive producers are Tim Carter, Claudia Milne and Sue Davidson and the series producer is Duncan Coates.