Sky1 - Strike Back
It turns out that the show being promoted by Sky and shown for the first time during September/October 2011 is the second series of their Strike Back concept. This one called Project Dawn
I didn't see the first series, which was shown in 2010 and has been repeated on a few channels a couple of times since then. It's a sort of spy/military/Bruce Willis action series, though in practice it's more "thud and blunder" than James Bond. It does try to make everything a little bigger: the sex scenes are more intense, the violence is more gratuitous, the killings are more gory, the swearing is more realistic - but it's let down by the plot, the writing and the premise.
So far there have been 4 episodes of, I think, 6 in total. The format so far has been 2 major "adventures" covering 2 episodes each. Although there appears to be a background theme to the series, each of the hour long episodes stands up on its own, if you just want a fix of actors pretend-shooting other actors and aren't too concerned about the details.
Look out, I'm about to give away the plot
The "team" is apparently a super-secret british army unit: they call each other "sir" and "ma'am", but seem to have recruited an american who just happened to be chums with someone who got killed off in the first series. (Presumably in an attempt to sell it to the U.S. audiences, who wouldn't believe a british military unit could sneak into foreign countries and shoot whoever they like with impunity: only the american military is allowed to do that). However, as a team they don't seem to do a very good job. When all the shooting has stopped and the smoke has cleared, they've so far failed in both of their assignments.
Not only do they fail, but they do so in spectacular style. In the first case, which was set in a hotel in India - mimicking the Indian siege from 2008, the individual they were all sent in to apprehend, evaded them. Worse: he got away with their star witness, who the team happily gave away to someone they though they could trust - who just drove off with a wave. In the second adventure - this time in Africa, an ex-iRA man: Paddy O'Baddy (I can't remember his real name in the show) strapped a timer/bomb to one of the team and then promised to disable it remotely if the other team members let him go. They did. He didn't. Boom!.
Maybe what the series lacks is a laughter track. Although it takes itself very seriously and all the cast appear awfully earnest and driven and focused, they just aren't very competent. In the second, african, adventure the plot revolves around an electronic device that unlocks access to a container of nerve agent (you can tell it's nasty stuff - it's green) that Paddy O'Baddy is after. He steals the device, but can't crack the electronics in order to use it. So (let's call him "Captain America") wades in, impersonates an electronics expert who they had accidentally killed and gets given the device to crack it. Now, ordinarily you'd think: OK, the good guys have got the security device, Paddy can't get the green goop, game over, job well done. But no! The Cap'n cracks the electronics and goes back to Paddy who steals the goop and then does the dastardly deed with the bomb, blowing up the team's Lt. Blondie (who has previously had a tender moment with Sgt. Beefcake - so her fate was sealed) in the process. It wouldn't take more than the right canned laughter and a few edited-in comic pauses to turn this into an army version of "Airplane".