trike Back is coming to and end. The Sky One/Cinemax special forces drama has been renewed for a final season - its eighth on Sky One and seventh on Cinemax (the HBO sister network aired the first season as miniseries Strike Back: Origins back in 2013). The seventh season of Strike Back will receive its UK premiere on Sky One on Thursday February 28th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
Jamie Bamber (The Smoke, Battlestar Galactica) is joining the cast of the Sky One and Cinemax co-production Strike Back for its upcoming seventh season. Bamber will play Colonel Alexander Coltrane, the new commanding officer of Section 20. Also joining the cast this season is Yasemin Allen (Water And Fire), who will play Katrina Zarkova - a rogue Russian operative with questionable loyalties. The join returning cast members Warren Brown (Luther), Daniel MacPherson (The Shannara Chronicles) and Alin Sumarwata (Neighbours). 
Special forces drama Strike Back - which is a co-production between Sky One and HBO's sister channel Cinemax - has been renewed for another season. This is the seventh season for Sky and the sixth for Cinemax (the latter of whom aired the initial season as a spin-off titled Strike Back: Origins). 
The sixth season of Strike Back will premiere on Sky1 on Tuesday October 31st at 9pm, it has been announced. 
Some three years after announcing that the show's fifth season would be its last, Sky1 and co-production partner Cinemax have revealed that they are bringing back Strike Back for a sixth season. Despite the decision end the series with its most recent season, we might not have seen the last of Strike Back just yet. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that series producer Left Bank Pictures is in the early stages of developing a feature film based on the TV series which aired five seasons between 2010 and 2015 on Sky1 in the UK and HBO's sister channel Cinemax in the United States.