SBS On Demand

TV.Cynic · December 3, 2020, 12:30pm

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 Réunion

TV.Cynic · December 8, 2020, 11:29pm

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 Academy® 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.

https://twitter.com/SBSOnDemand/status/1345248461978013699?s=20

TV_Addict · January 10, 2021, 10:20am

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

TelevisionAU · January 10, 2021, 12:16pm

no it’s the last 40 episodes from 2020.

JohnsonTV · January 19, 2021, 9:04am

TV.Cynic · January 28, 2021, 9:56am

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 Bäckström - 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. Bäckström 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.

TV.Cynic · January 28, 2021, 9:57am

Only on SBS!

TV.Cynic · February 16, 2021, 9:48am

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 Måns Mårlind 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 Måns, from ZeroZeroZero and Gomorrah to We Are Who We Are. The complete curation, Måns Mårlind 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 (Pauhofová) 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.

JohnsonTV · March 5, 2021, 8:38am

The Tailings

Friday 2 April, 6 episodes

JBar · March 5, 2021, 9:46am

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

JohnsonTV · March 5, 2021, 10:24am

Wakefield also debuts on Good Friday on iView.

TV.Cynic · March 18, 2021, 1:12pm

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.

JohnsonTV · March 23, 2021, 11:02pm

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

TV.Cynic · March 24, 2021, 2:45am

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?

TV.Cynic · March 25, 2021, 9:59am

Future Man - Season 3

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.

JohnsonTV · March 25, 2021, 10:24am

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

TV_Addict · April 6, 2021, 9:45am

Shortland Street was a double episode yesterday, there is no episode up yet on the Apple TV tonight for some reason? The last one I see is Episode 102- Marty pays Tony a visit…

TV.Cynic · April 8, 2021, 7:18am

TV_Addict · April 22, 2021, 9:28am

Yep they’ve done it again, this time they haven’t uploaded last night’s episode of Shortland Street or as it is called on the app “Episode 114” . I thought it was automatically done .

JohnsonTV · April 22, 2021, 10:56am

SBS has acquired the third season of BBC drama The A Word, along with the catch-up TV rights to the first two seasons. It is based on Israeli series Yellow Preppers and follows a young boy and how his family cope with the revelation that he is autistic.