May 2025
The Black Forest Murders
Australian Premiere Box Set Drop Thursday 8 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (Four episodes)
The Black Forest Murders is a drama combining the events of real-life criminal cases, which rocked Germany, into a gripping fictional police drama focusing on the meticulous work and psychological toll on those involved in investigations.
A young woman goes missing. After an intensive search, her body is found, beaten to death. Detective Barbara Kramer (Nina Kunzendorf) from the police in Lauburg, Baden-Württemberg, and her team, including Thomas Riedle (Tilman Strauß) begin the search for the perpetrator, talking to witnesses and gathering evidence. Although the team grows into a large special investigation unit, securing hundreds of leads and trying to make connections, the investigation seems to lead nowhere. In addition, the special unit must deal with a second murder, of which it is not clear whether and how it is related to the first. And parallels to a similar case in Austria that took place four years earlier become apparent. Under the eyes of a worried public, the police officers have to keep asking themselves whether any new information can be expected and where it can be found.
Episode 1: A village on the hunt - Stefanie Berghoff from Buchingen has been missing for 17 hours when the Lauburg police station begins the search. Chief Inspector Barbara Kramer and her colleague Thomas Riedle coordinate the search along the young woman’s jogging route. The longer they search, the more important it becomes to secure evidence, find witnesses and prevent the many volunteers, including Berghoff’s husband and her father, from trampling on clues. When the young woman’s body is finally found in the forest, she has already been dead for 72 hours, killed by use of force, weapon unknown. Forensics and criminal technology begin their work.
The series is written by Robert Hummel and Martina Mouchot and based on a non-fiction book, SOKO Erle, written by investigator Walter Roth.
The Black Forest Murders will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand in German with English subtitles.
Sherlock & Daughter
Thursday 8 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (Eight episodes)
In this eight episode series, the great detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself in a most unusual state: extortion. He is stymied, unable to investigate a recent spate of high-profile kidnappings lest he incur the wrath of a mysterious criminal syndicate who have taken hostage his dearest friends, Doctor Watson and Mrs. Hudson.
Meanwhile, a young American woman named Amelia Rojas travels across the world after a murder in her home in California, intent on meeting the famed detective with whom she claims a startling connection. When this strange young woman shows up on his Baker Street doorstep, Sherlock must determine whether she is a threat, an asset, or, somehow, family.
Set in Victorian era London, this new take on Sherlock Holmes stars David Thewlis (Harry Potter franchise, The Artful Dodger) and Blu Hunt (The New Mutants, Another Life) in the titular roles. Dougray Scott plays the detective’s nemesis James Moriarty with Paul Reid as Inspector Bullivant, Sean Duggan as Dr Watson, and Antonio Aakeel as Swan.
The series is produced by Starlings Entertainment and StoryFirst and launches in the US in April. The creator and writer is Brendan Foley, who also wrote The Man Who Died which has a second season premiering on SBS On Demand in May.
Sherlock & Daughter will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand from Thursday 8 May with new episodes available weekly and airing on SBS Thursdays at 9.30pm.
Who Do You Think You Are? Australia S16
Who Do You Think You Are? Australia S16 will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand from Tuesday 13 May with new episodes available weekly and airing on SBS Tuesdays at 7.30pm.
All eight episodes of Season 16 of Who Do You Think You Are? will be available to stream on SBS On Demand with subtitles in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean. All episodes will also be available with audio description .
The Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Wednesday 14 – 18 May 2025 on SBS On Demand
Killing Sherlock with Lucy Worsley
Thursday 29 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (Three episodes)
Sherlock Holmes is arguably the most famous detective in the world, featuring in more than 60 original stories, and countless adaptions. For more than a century, he’s intrigued and excited his fans with his intellect and powers of deduction. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character.
Over the course of three episodes, historian and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan Lucy Worsley investigates this curious love-hate relationship between Holmes and Doyle: detective and author.
Killing Sherlock with Lucy Worley will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand from Thursday 29 May with new episodes available weekly and airing on SBS Thursdays at 7.30pm.
Dark Winds - Season 3
Box Set Stream free
Thursday 15 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (All eight episodes)
Two Navajo police officers are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case in this series set in America’s southwest in the 1970s.
Starring Zahn McClarnon as Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Kiowa Gordon as Sgt. Jim Chee with Jenna Elfmann
joining the cast for the third season in the role of FBI Agent Sylvia Washington.
The series also stars Jessica Matten as Bernadette Manuelito, Deanna Allison as Emma Leaphorn and
A Martinez as Sheriff Gordo Sena.
Dark Winds is based on the Leaphorn & Chee novels by Tony Hillerman and set on the lands of the Navajo Nation. Across the series key locations have included Arizona’s Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Mexican Hat in Utah and Santa Fe and Tesuque in New Mexico.
Season 3, Episode 1 - Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee investigate the disappearance of a Navajo boy. Manuelito makes a sinister discovery while adjusting to life on the border patrol. An FBI agent comes to solve a case linked to Leaphorn’s recent past.
The Man Who Died - Season 2
Australian Premiere Box Set Drop Tuesday 22 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (Six episodes)
Get set for the second season of this darkly comic crime thriller. Finnish mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko had been sleepwalking through life until a diagnosis, an affair and threats from the local mushroom mafia turned his world upside down. He found out he had been fatally poisoned and set out to find who done it. As the second season begins, Jaakko finds himself unexpectedly still alive. But how and for how long? The clock is ticking as he tries to take back control of his business and push on in pursuit of a killer.
The Man Who Died is based on the Finnish novel by Antti Tuomainen. The book was adapted for television by Brendan Foley and producer Markku Flink. Foley wrote scripts in English which were translated into Finnish for production. Foley also wrote Sherlock & Daughter launching this month on SBS On Demand and he was a co-writer of the thriller series Cold Courage which is already available.
The Man Who Died S2 stars Jussi Vatanen (Fallen Leaves) as Jaakko with many of the original cast recurring. New cast members include Kati Outinen as ruthless Stella Lampinen and Natsumi Kuroda as Jaakko’s enigmatic nurse.
Couples Therapy S4b
Box Set Drop Stream free Monday 26 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (Nine episodes)
Couples Therapy is returning for the second installment of Season 4.
The series follows world-renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik as she deftly guides couples through real-life therapy sessions. The series brings viewers into the intimate sessions to witness the conflicts – and extraordinary breakthroughs – typically hidden behind closed doors.
Couples Therapy S4b, invites viewers back to the couch, where Orna navigates a thorny brew of recriminations, conflict and painful truths with four new couples. She delves into the crisis of a deaf man and his hearing partner torn between sexual freedom and commitment, a young couple haunted by trauma and buried secrets, a long-married pair trapped in cycles of bickering and avoidance and a therapist-writer duo locked in a zero-sum battle of sacrifice and grievance that pushes Orna to question her own methods.
Couples Therapy won the Television Critics Association (TCA) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming in 2021 and the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Award for Best Edited Non- Scripted Series in 2024. The series has garnered additional award nominations from the International Documentary Association, 2023 TCA Awards, 2025 ACE Awards, Cinema Eye Honor Awards and Critics’ Choice Real TV Awards.
Couples Therapy is produced by Edgeline Films. Sundance Award-winning filmmakers Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg and Eli Despres (Weiner, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show) serve as executive producers along with Vinnie Malhotra. Matt Parker, Bennett Elliott and Carly Hugo are producers for the second installment of season four, with Pax Wassermann and Bennett Elliott serving as directors.
The Veil
Box Set Drop Stream free Tuesday 27 May 2025 on SBS On Demand (Six episodes)
The epic finale of The Handmaid’s Tale’s sixth and final season will drop on Tuesday 27 May but that’s not all that’s happening on this date.
SBS On Demand has another big drama starring Elisabeth Moss available as a box set from the same day.
The Veil is an international spy thriller series exploring the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, the CIA and French DGSE must work together to avert a potential disaster.
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) stars as Imogen Salter and Yumna Marwain as Adilah El Idrissi. The cast includes Dali Benssalah, Josh Charles (another Handmaid’s connection), James Purefoy and Dan Wyllie.
The Veil was created and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes) who is also one of the executive producers along with Elisabeth Moss, Denise Di Novi, Lindsay McManus, Daina Reid and Damon Thomas. Thomas and Reid direct three episodes of the series each. (Reid, an Australian, also directed episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale.)
