Britain Ruled By The Reich

The Nazis won the Battle of Britain in BBC1’s gripping alternate history drama.

- David Hollingsworth

Fourteen months after Germany won the Battle of Britain, England is under Nazi occupation. Winston Churchill has been executed, King George VI is being held in the Tower of London, and Third Reich swastika banners hang from the Houses of Parliament.

The year is 1941 and Londoners are forced to cower to their Nazi masters. That’s the nightmarish alternative history world we enter in BBC1’s new five-part thriller, SS-GB, which has been adapted by James Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade from Len Deighton’s acclaimed 1978 novel.

ENTER ARCHER OF THE YARD

Sam Riley stars as Superintendent Douglas Archer, a Scotland Yard cop who’s now working under the notoriously savage SS.