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Meet the cast of Tasmanian mystery series ‘The Tailings’

Emerging stars Mabel Li and Tegan Stimson will lead the cast of new short-form drama series The Tailings, which commenced production on location on the West Coast of Tasmania this week.

Championing female perspectives and the West Coast landscape, The Tailings invites audiences to a remote community to follow a daughter’s investigation into her father’s death.

From an all-female key creative trifecta, The Tailings is written by Tasmanian Caitlin Richardson, directed by Stevie Cruz-Martin ( Pulse, Marrow ) and produced by Liz Doran ( Please Like Me , Molly ) with Richard Kelly ( The Gloaming ) and Steve Thomas ( Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky ). The 6 x 10-minute mystery drama series is set amidst the West Coast wilderness, the eerie and rugged landscape setting the scene for teenage Jas’s maverick investigation.

The funeral of Jas’s father coincides with the arrival of a newly-graduated schoolteacher, Ruby, who must also deal with her own unresolved issues. As the mystery unfolds, secrets are exposed and the two are challenged to confront the strange and paradoxical layers of grief.

The Tailings’ ensemble cast includes established Tasmanian actress Kris McQuade ( Rosehaven , Wentworth ), joined by Victoria Haralabidou ( Deep Water ), Nic English ( Reckoning ) and an array of local Tasmanian talent including Shaun Martindale, Harry Prior, Tai Nguyen, Michael Earnshaw, Jane Hamilton Foster and Sarah Cooper.

Playing Jas, Hobart’s Tegan Stimson says: “I am excited to have the opportunity to be involved in The Tailings and to collaborate with such a talented and experienced cast to bring this amazing story to life. The series tells such a powerful and relevant story, entailing many strong female roles, who have such depth and complexity. Growing up in Tasmania, there is always a sense of strong community and you are never far from nature. As a young Tasmanian, I identify with this story and wish to help portray an entertaining show that can resonate with audiences.“

Mabel Li, who plays the role of Ruby, says: “I am so thrilled to be filming in the beautiful lutruwita and to be working alongside some stellar female creatives, and I feel incredibly proud to be representing a modern young Chinese Australian woman in this story.

"The West Coast’s moody mountainous backdrop has been the perfect setting to this dark, mysterious yet incredibly quirky story. Being isolated all in one place far from home has added an extra layer of intimacy to this production and I’m so excited for the world to see it.”

SBS Director of Television and Online Content, Marshall Heald says: “SBS is thrilled to commence production in Tasmania this week and to be creating exciting opportunities for local and emerging talent. The Tailings portrays a community living on the margins, both socially and geographically, providing a rare insight into remote Tasmania, a community seldom represented on-screen. The Tailings responds to the growing audience appetite for short-form digital content, joining AACTA-Award winning series Robbie Hood in SBS’s premium offering of bite-sized dramas.”

The Tailings is a Good Lark production in association with 2Jons and Roar Film for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australia, in association with Screen Tasmania. Financed with support from Topic and executive produced by SBS’s Amanda Duthie.

The Tailings is being filmed on lutruwita Aboriginal land and waterways. Production would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Palawa people, and Elders past, present and emerging.

The Tailings will premiere on SBS On Demand in 2021.

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The Tailings
TX: 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 6 x 10mins

When a man is found face down in the lake outside a remote tight-knit mining town, an inquest finds that the death was an accident – a verdict many people in town are happy to accept. However, the man’s daughter and a new school teacher start an investigation of their own, revealing more than they could ever have imagined. Filmed in Tasmania, The Tailings stars emerging actors Mabel Li and Tegan Stimson and is directed by Stevie Cruz-Martin and produced by Liz Doran. A Good Lark production in association with 2Jons and Roar Film for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Tasmania. Financed with support from Topic.

Iggy & Ace
TX: 2021 on SBS on Demand
Number of Episodes: 6 x 10mins

Iggy and Ace are two young, gay alcoholics who live, work and play together, inseparable by design. When Ace starts to suffer debilitating panic attacks, he turns up at a gay chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous determined to get sober. Iggy & Ace was written by AB Morrison, produced by Hannah Ngo, and directed by Monica Zannetti. A Lazy Susan Pictures production for SBS. Principal production funding from Screen Australia in association with SBS. Developed with assistance from Screenwest and Lotterywest.

Shrill S3
TX: Mid 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 8 x 30mins

Based on the memoir Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West, this single camera comedy follows Annie, a young woman who wants to change her life – but not her body. Annie is trying to make it as a journalist while juggling bad boyfriends, sick parents, and a perfectionist boss, while the world around her deems her not good enough because of her weight. She starts to realise that she’s as good as anyone else, and acts on it. This third season sees Annie face a new swing of issues.

Why Women Kill S2
TX: 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 10 x 1hr

In anthology fashion, Why Women Kill’s next instalment follows a new group of characters with an ensemble cast including Allison Tolman (Fargo) and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz). This season of the dark comedy features new storylines set in 1949 that will explore what it means to be beautiful, the hidden truth behind the facades people present to the world, the effects of being ignored and overlooked by society, and finally, the lengths one woman will go in order to finally belong.

No Man’s Land
TX: January 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 8 x 1hr

A fast-paced and thrilling drama about ordinary people, in an extraordinary place, and how far they would go to save the ones they love. No Man’s Land is an engaging, international thriller, with family at its core. Antoine, a young French man, abruptly abandons his ordinary life in search of his long gone, presumed to be dead sister, only to find himself plunged into one of the most dangerous places in the world, Syria. While unravelling the mystery, dark secrets rise up to the surface and threaten to ruin his family.

La Unidad
TX: January 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 6 x 1hr

In the dark of night, officers from the Spanish, Moroccan, and French police forces carry out a synchronised anti-jihadist strike, but retaliation looms. In Madrid, Marcos has moved out of the apartment he shared with his partner Carla and their daughter. Carla is the head of the counter-terrorist squad – Marcos is now her first officer. Used to following Carla’s orders on the job, Marcos can’t grasp why he and Carla are history. Despite the secret she’s keeping from Marcos, Carla just needs to get things done. Like detecting the terrorists’ hidden agenda before more lives are sacrificed.

We Got This
TX: January 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 6 x 45mins

Grieving from the recent death of his father, the sudden collapse of his career, and the arrival of an insurmountable tax bill, George English, an American living in Sweden, stumbles onto an unlikely solution – a 50 million Swedish Crown reward for solving the 30-year-old murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme. Together with his closest friend, they follow the case into a web of conspiracy., keeping his wife and daughter in the dark while following the cover-up and the inconsistencies in the original investigation, George quickly realises that every step he takes towards the truth, the more dangerous his operation becomes.

Are You Addicted to Technology?
TX: Early 2021 on SBS On Demand
Interactive Documentary

Are You Addicted to Technology? is a world first interactive On Demand mobile experience that will take the viewer on a personalised journey to question the relationship they have with their mobile devices. Guiding the journey is Dr Huu Kim Le, a former gaming addict turned clinical psychiatrist who provides a personalised response to viewer’s answers and measures how they compare to a national survey of Australians. A Closer Productions and Joined Up Films production for SBS. Principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with SBS. Financed with support from Screenwest and Lotterywest, and the South Australian Film Corporation.

Creamerie
TX: April 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 8 x 30mins

A post-apocalyptic black comedy that aims to serve as an antidote-accompaniment to dramas like The Handmaid’s Tale. Eight years ago, a pandemic wiped out 90 per cent of the world’s male population and all male children. In less than a decade, Earth has become a planet ruled by women. Has society become a Matriarchal Utopia? Well, not quite. Creamerie explores the limits of ethics, power, psychology, and wits when three Kiwi-Asian women come across a hapless injured man on their dairy farm. Stars Yoson An (Mulan, Dead Lucky).

Thin Ice
TX: April 2021 on SBS On Demand
Number of Episodes: 8 x 45mins

Off the coast of Greenland, a Swedish oil research vessel is attacked and the crew are kidnapped. The ship is found adrift as the Arctic Council meet to sign a treaty. Suspicions arise that Russia may be responsible for the attack. Liv, a Swedish Intelligence Officer, travels to the small village of Tasiilaq to investigate and discovers rising tensions amongst local officials. The town’s phone and internet connection have been cut, the population is slowly vanishing, and witnesses are being killed – all seemingly to prevent the treaty meeting from concluding. With humanity at stake, there is no time to delay the fight against climate change. It’s an uphill battle as the Council realise these sinister events could escalate into a new cold war.

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Aquarius

Thursday 3 December

Series 1 is a gritty 1960s cop drama about LAPD detective Sam Hodiak and his trainee, who must deal with gangs, brutal crimes, changing times, family crises and unhinged manipulative small time crook Charles Manson, who’s slowly building his cult.

Spiral S1-8

Thursday 3 December; French

Spiral is a series about the French justice system, as seen through the eyes of the men and women working in law enforcement and the judiciary, in the heart of Paris’s Palais de Justice. The main character is a young, compassionate, enthusiastic, committed assistant prosecutor; a stern, incorruptible investigating magistrate; a beautiful, ambitious lawyer; and a young police officer recognised for her unfailing professionalism show us what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of justice and power. As they work on cases (based on real life events), they cross each other’s paths. When the body of an unknown, faceless woman is discovered, all of our characters’ lives are about to upended. For some, the case hits very close to home.

La Jauria

Thursday 10 December; Spanish

Ground breaking crime thriller, from the acclaimed producers Pablo and Juan de Dios LarraĂ­n, following a specialist female led police force focused on solving gender related crimes; a prominent issue affecting millions of women across Latin America and beyond. Following an alleged case of abuse between a teacher and student, Blanca Ibarra student and leader of a feminist movement organises a staged protest with a group of girls from the Santa Ines school. During the protest, Blanca mysteriously disappears. Hours later, a video recording of her being sexually assaulted by a group of unknown men is released online and quickly goes viral. This begins a frantic search for Blanca and an investigation into who could be responsible for this devastating crime.

Departure

Friday 11 December; Canada

A high octane conspiracy thriller about the shocking disappearance of Flight 716. Departure is a six part event series that follows the investigation into the shocking disappearance of Flight 716, a passenger plane that vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean. Brilliant investigator Kendra Malley is brought in by her mentor Howard Lawson to lead the team looking into the crash. Still devastated by the recent death of her husband and struggling to parent her troubled stepson, Kendra isn’t sure she’s up to the task. With the whole world watching, Kendra and her team must race to find the missing aircraft and rescue possible survivors. Each new discovery only deepens the mystery surrounding the disaster, revealing a host of suspects and motives - pilot suicide, terrorism, systems failure, politically motivated murder. Battling forces conspiring to undermine the investigation, Kendra must find the truth of what really happened to Flight 716, and stop it from happening again.

The Investigation

Thursday 17 December; 6 episodes, Danish and Swedish

Based on a true story. A tense true crime drama exploring the gripping case of the murdered young Swedish journalist Kim Wall that shocked a nation and made international headlines around the world in 2017 and ‘18.

This brooding drama covers the six month investigation into how and why Wall was murdered on a submarine where she was interviewing the eccentric inventor who had built it. Cutting edge forensic techniques are used and dogged policing sees the case finally brought to justice, but only after much obfuscation from the killer and seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the gathering of evidence.

In what is to become his final investigation, determined detective Jens Mþller never gives up, and forms close ties with the victim’s family spurring him to seek justice at any cost.

Stars Pilou AsbÊk ( Game of Thrones ), Pernilla August, Rolf LassgÄrd, SÞren Malling.

Home Ground

Thursday 17 December; * Language:Norwegian

Helena Mikkelsen and Varg survived their first season in the Norwegian top flight. At the cusp of a new season, the club teeters on the edge of bankruptcy while Helena builds a team from the ground up. With Adrian leading the way for a gang of amateurs and local talent, Varg soon find themselves in an ongoing state of crisis, where financial woes have personal consequences and the troubles tear the team apart from the inside. Michael’s divorce leads him into court where he must fight Marianne in a brutal battle for the custody of their kids. The hurtful end to their 20 year relationship mirrors Adrian’s beginning love affair with Helena’s daughter Camilla, and soon he will have to make a choice - to remain in the quiet safety of Varg and Ulsteinvik or dare push his way back into the world of professional football, away from the constant troubles of Varg and Helena, into the arms of Camilla. As Helena is faced with potential sale of Adrian in the midst of Varg’s looming bankruptcy, a saving grace appears in the form of a potential new owner. As the investor makes her dubious intentions known, Helena pits her own ambitions against Espen’s duty to preserve the soul of Varg, leading to a clash of wills only one of them can survive.

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Low Winter Sun

Thursday 10 December English, 10 episodes

Low Winter Sun is a contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. Low Winter Sun begins with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality, the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective’s life and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.

Aruanas

Wednesday 23 December, Brazil, Portuguese, 10 episodes

Three idealistic friends set up Aruana, an NGO that investigates the activities of a mining company operating in the Amazon rainforest. It is a place of harsh reality where strange events occur. The activists, each one following their own investigative leads, have come up with a plethora of evidence revealing environmental crimes. While these women unravel a dangerous web of crimes and secrets, they also must deal with their own ghosts and personal dramas.

Reunions

Thursday 31 December * France, French Arabic, English 10 episodes

When their father dies, two half brothers, one white, the other of mixed race, meet for the first time and learn they’ve inherited a lodge they must run together on Reunion Island. The island may be a piece of paradise, but the task won’t be simple for these two very different families. Will they manage to form a close knit tribe? From the producers of Baron Noir, a light hearted drama set on the tropical island of RĂ©union

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SBS On Demand in January

With over 11,000 hours of free content across every genre already available to stream on the platform, SBS On Demand will introduce another 16 new series to Australian audiences in January. From thrillers and historical dramas to mysteries and comedies, ring in the new year with something different.

Set in 1900s Vienna and starring Australian actress Jessica De Gouw ( The Secrets She Keeps, The Hunting ) and Matthew Beard ( The Imitation Game ), Vienna Blood drops on New Year’s Day.

World on Fire and the third season of Medici will arrive on the platform on Thursday 7 January. Set in 1939 and starring Sean Bean and Helen Hunt, World on Fire tells the story of World War II through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of the global conflict.

Espionage thriller La Unidad and Norwegian crime drama For Life will drop on Thursday 14 January.

Science fiction fans will devour The White Wall (available from Thursday 21 January), a thrilling tale about a mysterious white wall found deep underground, at the mining site of the world’s largest nuclear waste depository.

French drama No Man’s Land and Chinese crime series Miss S (the Chinese adaptation of the critically acclaimed Australian drama series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries ) will both be available from Thursday 28 January.

Joining these premium titles are seasons 1 and 2 of comedy series Atlanta (1 January), seasons 1 - 3 of period drama Versailles (1 January), season 1 of Danish thriller Cry Wolf (7 January), season 1 of Swedish crime series We Got This (7 January), season 1 of Norwegian family drama State of Happiness (14 January), season 1 of French thriller Possessions (21 January), and season 1 of Swedish political drama Inner Circle (28 January).

Festival Collections

Also coming this January, SBS On Demand will partner with 2 leading festivals to bring Australian audiences an additional suite of content from around the globe.

Sydney Festival Artistic Director Wesley Enoch has curated a collection of 10 television titles that explore Australian culture. From Benjamin Law’s The Family Law to landmark series First Contact , the Australian Made collection will include a diverse range of documentaries, children’s programming, comedies and game show series. Audiences can binge the Australian Made collection from 6 – 26 January 2021 .

January 2021 marks 30 years of Flickerfest, Australia’s leading Academy¼ Qualifying Short Film festival. SBS On Demand has partnered with Flickerfest to present 49 short films that celebrate the very best of Flickerfest. The collection includes 42 much-loved Australian and International films, as well as 7 short films that celebrate the LGBTQI+ experience. Films include Academy Award nominees Butter Lamp and The Eleven O’Clock starring Josh Lawson, and Ralph , written and directed by Deborah Mailman. Audiences can experience the 30 Years of Flickerfest collection from 1 January 2021 on SBS On Demand . The Flickerfest festival will take place in Bondi from the 22 – 31 January 2021.

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The 40 episodes of Shortland Street, that’s not all of 2020 is it?

no it’s the last 40 episodes from 2020.

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Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands

Monday 1 February, 12 episodes

Based on an epic poem written more than 1,000 years ago, this fantasy drama is set in a fictional land, where humans and creatures live a life of danger, excitement, and adventure. Fearless warrior Beowulf returns to his home of Herot to make peace with his past. In search of a community to fight for, he soon becomes wrongly accused of murder. He makes a vow to find the true perpetrator and avenge the death of his fellow kinsmen. As he upholds the law and protects Herot from danger, Beowulf becomes the town’s tough but unconventional hero. With themes of power, revenge, greed, courage, and love, the heroes and villains struggle with their inner conflicts as well as their places within the wider community.

Kieler Street

Thursday 4 February, 10 episodes, Norwegian

Jonas Schulman lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter in the small village of Slusvik. One day, his neighbour and best friend Geir blackmails him, and things come to light about his past.

Backstrom

Thursday 18 February, 6 episodes, Swedish

This series revolves around detective Evert BĂ€ckström - a man famous for having solved 99% of all cases he has taken on. But when a bullet ridden skull is found in the Swedish archipelago, DNA results confirm it belongs to a victim of Thailand’s 2004 tsunami. BĂ€ckström is faced with an inexplicable mystery that even he could not have imagined. Can you die twice?

Romulus

Wednesday 24 February, 10 episodes, Latin

Latium, 8th century BC, a primitive and brutal world where the implacable power of nature and the gods decide man’s destiny. Numitor, King of Alba Longa, has been the leader of the Latin League of thirty villages for many years, but drought and famine threaten their wellbeing and peace. Beyond the villages extend the dark woods, populated by cruel and mysterious creatures.

Romulus is the story of this world told through the eyes of three youths, whose lives are marked by death, loneliness, and violence: Yemos ( Andrea Arcangeli ), a prince of Alba Longa, Wiros ( Francesco Di Napoli ), a young orphaned slave, and the young Vestal Ilia ( Marianna Fontana ). A tale of women and men who discover how to shape their destiny rather than to suffer it. Romulus is the epic story of the founding of Rome like it has never been told before.

Awake

Thursday 25 February, 16 episodes, Arabic

AWAKE is about a young woman, Dana (Flavia Bechara), who wakes up from a 12 year coma unable to speak or interact with others. Surrounded by her loving family and with the help of her sisters Lama (Stephanie Atallah) and Jinane (Ruba Zaarour), she slowly recovers and begins to explore the hyper digital world around her. With this rare second chance, she builds an entirely new life for herself with work, friends, and love until family secrets and past betrayals threaten to unravel Dana’s world once again.

Derby Girl

Friday 26 February, 10 episodes, French

25 year old Lola Bouvier, a fallen ice skating star with an outsize ego, decides to become ‘the greatest roller derby champion of all time’ but unwittingly joins one of the worst French teams - the Cannibal Unicorns!

Detective Chinatown

Sunday 28 February, 12 episodes, Mandarin

After failing to become a cop, a mystery enthusiast goes to visit his hapless cousin in Thailand. One is a brainiac, and the other a twitchy loser, but together they’re going to solve a murder.

Only on SBS!

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Shadowplay

Thursdays from 4 March; 8 episodes

Set in divided Berlin during the Summer of 1946, eight-part drama series Shadowplay will premiere on SBS and SBS On Demand at 8:30pm on Thursday 4 March. From the creators of Midnight Sun and The Bridge comes a provoking and dynamic period drama set against the lawless and unpredictable backdrop of post WWII Germany.

In an SBS On Demand exclusive, Shadowplay director MĂ„ns MĂ„rlind will be curating a collection of TV series for Australians to experience on the platform. The collection will showcase a wide variety of European dramas personally recommended by MĂ„ns, from ZeroZeroZero and Gomorrah to We Are Who We Are. The complete curation, MĂ„ns MĂ„rlind Guest Curates, will be available to view from Thursday 4 March.

Shadowplay will premiere with a double episode at 8.30pm Thursday 4 March on SBS. Episodes will continue weekly at 9:30pm from Thursday 11 March. New episodes will be available at SBS On Demand each week on the same day as broadcast. Shadowplay will also be subtitled in Simplified Chinese and Arabic, available to stream for free at SBS On Demand. Each subtitled episode will become available at the same time as broadcast.

Beforeigners

Friday 5 March; 6 episodes, Norwegian

People from the past inexplicably start appearing in the ocean. A couple of years later, Alfhildr - who comes from the Viking Age - is teamed up with burned-out Oslo police officer Lars Haaland as part of the police department’s integration program. While investigating the murder of a woman with Stone Age tattoos, Lars and Alfhildr make some chilling, unexpected discoveries.

Possessions

Wednesday 10 March; 6 episodes French, Hebrew, English

Natalie, a young French woman living in Israel, is accused of murdering her husband on the night of her wedding. Karim, who works at the French consulate and is charged with helping French people in trouble, slowly falls for Natalie. He can’t decide whether she is vulnerable and lost, or incredibly manipulative. Obsessed with this case, Karim goes deep inside Natalie’s mysterious past.

Laetitia

Thursday 11 March 6 episodes, French

Eighteen year old Laetitia has disappeared. Her overturned scooter was found in the early morning, just in front of her house. Very quickly the police investigations will reconstruct the young girl’s last hours, leading to the arrest of Tony Meilhon. But while they are certain that they have identified the responsible, the investigators still can’t find the body. This story will follow the repercussions on Laetitia’s family, above all on her twin sister Jessica, but also on the working of the police force, the social services, and the judicial system and even on the Government. Based on real events.

The Sleepers

Thursday 18 March, 6 episodes Czech

Marie (PauhofovĂĄ) and her political dissident husband Viktor fled Communist Czechoslovakia 12 years ago. Now it is 1989, change is in the air and they take advantage of an amnesty to return to their home country. But soon after they arrive they are hit by a car: when Marie wakes her husband has disappeared, and nobody seems to know anything about him. Where is Viktor?

Spring Tide - Season 1 and 2

Thursday 25 March, Swedish

1990 - Under the glow of a full moon, a sadistic murder is committed on Nordkoster Island - a young pregnant woman is buried in the sand, so that she slowly drowns as the tide rises. 25 years later, the case remains unsolved. Olivia Rönning is assigned the case to work on, as cold-case training at the Police Academy. Olivia becomes obsessed with the murder when she discovers that her father, who died several years ago, worked on the original investigation. She soon realises that she has to find the lead investigator, Detective Tom Stilton. There’s only one problem - he has disappeared off the face of the earth. Tom Stilton is homeless now and does not want to be reminded of his old life or an old, unsolved case - he has a hard enough time just surviving. Horrifying videos start showing up online, in which homeless people are brutally assaulted. When Stilton’s friends are attacked, he decides to get revenge. Olivia and Stilton’s paths cross through Olivia’s tenacious efforts to solve the case. She tries to get Stilton to help her, but he isn’t very interested. This is the beginning of a very odd friendship, and together they come closer and closer to solving the Beach Case - but what they discover has unimaginable consequences for Olivia.

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The Tailings

Friday 2 April, 6 episodes

Why would you debut this on the Good Friday public holiday. SBS makes some odd scheduling decisions.

Wakefield also debuts on Good Friday on iView.

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Outlier

Friday 2 April Norwegian, 8 episodes

A young girl is found killed at a camping resort and criminal psychologist Maja Angell believes that the police have arrested the wrong man. She’s not able to convince the police of that. Can she find the murderer before he strikes again?

Outlier is a female led crime thriller set in Arctic wilderness amid the Sami community. The series follows Maja Angell - an acclaimed young academic in London who specialises in profiling serial killers and aims to develop analytical tools to predict serious crimes. One day, she learns of a young women who has been murdered in her
hometown, in the Norwegian wilderness, and decides to head back home to her Sami community to be part of the investigation and track down the killer. As Maja must think like the criminal to fight him and anticipate his next move, the hunt leads her to confront her own demons.

Mr Mercedes

Saturday 03 April

A demented killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the best selling novel by Stephen King. Directed by Jack Bender (Under the Dome) and adapted for television and executive produced by David E. Kelley (The Practice).

The A Word Season 3

Thursday 8 April, 6 episodes

The new season of The A Word kicks off with a jump to two years later. Paul (Lee Ingleby) and Alison Hughes (Morven Christie) are now divorced. Things have been very difficult in their lives lately with Paul’s house damage by a fire, Alison losing a job, and their autistic young son Joe (Max Vento) struggling with the changes. Meanwhile, Maurice Scott (Christopher Eccleston) has been working as a volunteer firefighter on top of being the patriarch who is trying to help his family with their dramas. He has also been busy with his girlfriend Louise Wilson’s (Pooky Quesnal) request. She has asked him to look into what her son Ralph (Leon Harrop) has been hiding. It turns out that he has been working on moving in with his girlfriend Kate (Sarah Gordy). The drama doesn’t stop there as Joe’s older half sister Rebecca (Molly Wright) admitted to Maurice that she is unexpectedly pregnant.

The Man In Room 301

Thursday 15 April, 6 episodes

Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy - Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12 year old neighbour, is blamed for the death of the child. Summer 2019, Greece. 12 years after the tragedy, the family receives a threatening anonymous letter. In the Greek resort where they are enjoying their holidays, they come across a man that looks just like Elias, in room 301. Is it really Elias? What is he doing there? What if he was wrongfully accused of Tommi’s death and came to retaliate against the family?

Deadwater Fell

Wednesday 21 April, 4 episodes

When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they know and trust, the small Scottish community they call home becomes riven with doubt and suspicion as those closest to the family begin to question everything they thought they knew about their friends.

Thin Ice

Thursday 22 April, Swedish, Danish 8 episodes

Off the coast of Greenland, a Swedish oil research vessel is attacked and the crew are kidnapped. The ship is found adrift as the Arctic Council meet to sign a treaty, put forward by the Swedish Foreign Minister, to prohibit harmful drilling in the Arctic. Suspicions arise that Russia may be responsible for the attack. Huge oil reserves have been discovered in the area and Russia is secretly offering Greenland independence in exchange for the drilling rights. Liv, a Swedish Intelligence Officer, travels to the small village of Tasiilaq to investigate and discovers rising tensions amongst local officials. The town’s phone and internet connection have been cut, the population is slowly vanishing, and witnesses are being killed - all seemingly to prevent the treaty meeting from concluding.

It will premiere on SBS on Demand on Wednesday, April 21.

Are You Addicted to Technology?

Wednesday 21 April

Never before in history have so few people been in control of the behaviour of billions of people. Ground-breaking SBS integrative documentary Are You Addicted To Technology? is a must watch call to arms, that will make us rethink our – and the next generation’s - relationship to technology.

Hosted by former gaming addict turned clinical psychologist, Dr. Kim Le, this documentary experiment will reveal the detrimental impact that technology addiction is having on our mental health, our children’s wellbeing and our very humanity. Prompting audiences to answers questions about their own tech usage throughout the interactive documentary, Dr. Kim Le will navigate us through this journey of enlightenment, with research experiments, expert opinions and interactive storytelling.

Using a rigorous Australia-wide survey, the viewer will have their level of tech addiction revealed to them during the experience. Along the way, Dr. Kim Le will reveal the tricks used by Big Tech to draw us to their products to make you understand why we’re addicted, how we got here, and what we should do next. Are You Addicted to Technology? is a timely, radical and innovative interactive documentary, that will challenge us to reassess everything we thought we knew about ourselves and our relationship with technology. Are you ready to take the challenge?

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Future Man - Season 3

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Thursday 15 April

From the creative minds behind Sausage Party and This Is The End comes a high octane time travel, action, adventure, comedy like nothing you’ve ever seen on your TV, or computer, or tablet, or phone before. Josh Futterman (Josh Hutcherson), a world ranked gamer, still lives at home with his parents, Gabe (Ed Begley Jr.) and Diane (Glenne Headly), and has a dead end job as a janitor at a sexual disease research centre. His social ineptitude, low self esteem and prominent inability to approach women can only be matched by his unparalleled prowess at The Biotic Wars, a dystopian video game where his character - Future Man - has the top ranking in the world. When he becomes the first and only person to beat the elusive final level, he’s visited by the game’s ‘fictional’ characters, Tiger (Eliza Coupe) and Wolf (Derek Wilson), who prove to be all too real warriors sent back in time from a desecrated future with the task of recruiting him to save humanity from a deadly super race invasion.

In the same article, Stevie discussed The Tailings which she co-produced.