Season 1 • Episode 7
LatestJenna and Boyd continue their affair, unaware that one of their colleagues knows about it. When Jenna gets kidnapped by a small group of terrorists, Boyd is determined to rescue her. But he is told he can't have anything to do with the rescue operation- his superiors have been told. Is this the end of his career? And will the team successfully rescue Jenna, or will she die at the terrorist's hands?
Jenna Marston (Zöe Lucker) is an ambitious and committed Army Captain who's nursing a big secret... she's having an affair with her boss, Major Nick Welling (Jeremy Sheffield). It's an affair that could cost them the careers they love, but their passion proves impossible to suppress. Back on the parade ground, equal opportunity law means that the British Army now has to open its doors to 'all sorts' and Nick and Jenna find themselves managing a rag tag of raw recruits. The task of turning social misfits into a crack fighting team, ready for deployment in war zones around the world, is one that takes determination and grit. Just as Bad Girls opened the doors into the closed world of a women's prison, Bombshell lifts the lid on the British Army - a hierarchical world where men and women are thrust together, living on the edge - trained and prepared to kill...
Acting
Zöe Lucker channels every ounce of Footballers' Wives energy into combat boots.
Production
Rare BBC glimpse at British Army barracks life before streaming existed.
Alicya Eyo
Gunner Gaynor Harvey
Zöe Lucker
Jenna Marston
Jeremy Sheffield
Major Nicholas Welling
Chris Geere
Gunner Dean McGowan
Robert Beck
Bombardier Boyd Billington
Lucy Cohu
Valerie Welling
Michael Obiora
Gunner Jackson Clark
Simon Sherlock
Lance Bombardier Terry Cotter
Rosie Marcel
Stacey Dawes
Bertie Carvel
Lieutenant Roddy Frost
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Created by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus, the same duo behind Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives—explaining the immediately recognizable 'prestige trash' DNA.
Aired in 2005 when British tabloids were obsessed with women in the military following the Deepcut barracks deaths; the show's timing was accidentally explosive.
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