Along For The Ride With David O’Doherty
English travel documentary **Australian Premiere**
Award-winning comedian, author, and cycling enthusiast David O’Doherty is heading out on a series of carefree, two-wheeled adventures, but he’s not travelling alone. On each trip, David will be joined by a different celebrity guest as they hop on their bikes and take to the open road to have some fun and explore some of the most beautiful parts of the UK.
Getting in the saddle alongside David is the artist Grayson Perry, actor and comedian Richard Ayoade, presenter and comedian Mel Giedroyc, and comedian and actor Joe Wilkinson. Whether experienced cyclists or complete novices, David and his guests will be taking to cycle routes across the UK to find out more about each other, share some laughs, get some exercise, and enjoy the British countryside.
It’s a comedy interview show on two wheels that delivers lots of laughter, proper conversation and stunning scenery while meditating on the physical and mental health benefits of cycling. The series sees David and his guests ride along spectacular routes in Wales, Northumberland, Dungeness in Kent and along the Suffolk coast.
Along For The Ride With David O’Doherty is an SBS and SBS On Demand exclusive.
Friday, 1 July on SBS and SBS On Demand (all four episodes available to stream)
Plat du Tour (Season Three)
Australian food series **Australian Premiere**
For 21 days every year, the most beautiful sporting event in the world captivates Australia. But Le Tour de France is much more than a cycling race. It is a celebration of the Joie de Vivre of French culture – the food, the travel, the lifestyle. Plat du Tour is the quintessential embodiment of this idea.
The series sees renowned French-Australian chef Guillaume Brahimi take us on a delectable culinary journey. Following the route of the Tour, Guillaume creates a beautiful meal inspired by the location of each stage, using beautiful Australian produce sourced from the guests that Guillaume meets along the way!
Plat du Tour will also begin airing on SBS from Friday, 1 July with new episodes coming daily during each stage of the Tour de France. Plat du Tour is an SBS and SBS On Demand exclusive. S1-2 are currently available on SBS On Demand.
Saturday, 2 July on SBS and SBS On Demand (new episodes coming daily)
The Village (Season One & Two)
English period drama **SBS On Demand Box-Set**
A family saga set in the rolling hills of the beautiful Peak District in England’s Derbyshire, through which we see early twentieth century history play out. Great historical events, change, progress, shifts in national identity are all refracted through the story of the village.
S1 opens in the present day with Bert Middleton, the second oldest man in Britain, being interviewed by a director. A documentary is being made about Bert and his village – he takes us back to the long hot summer of 1914.
An epic and emotional journey. This season covers the years of WWI with the story told through the eyes of Bert. His life story and his voice provide the backbone for the narrative and our way into an examination of who we think we are and why.
S2 starts in 1923 and the village moves away from the horrors of war and into the roaring twenties. It’s ‘boom or bust’, the Charleston and the Black Bottom, the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle-class. Bert is now old enough to understand and experience all these great and ominous changes, and to challenge and explore them for himself.
The Village stars David Ryall, Maxine Peake, John Simm, and Charlie Murphy. For more information, please contact:
Saturday, 2 July 2022 on SBS On Demand
(all twelve episodes of S1 and S2 available to stream)
True Colours
Australian crime drama **Australian Premiere**
Things are not what they seem in SBS and NITV’s compelling four-part crime drama True Colours. What starts with the investigation of a car accident soon turns into an epic hunt for a killer. It’s a murder mystery like no other exploring culture, community, family, and one woman’s pursuit to find her place within it.
Rarriwuy Hick (Redfern Now, Cleverman, Wentworth) spearheads a stellar cast including Luke Arnold (Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS, Black Sails), acclaimed singer-songwriter Warren H. Williams, and Miranda Otto (The Unusual Suspects, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Lord of the Rings).
Set in the fictional community of Perdar Theendar against the backdrop of the Northern Territory’s Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and Yeperenye (East MacDonnell Ranges), the series in English and Arrernte, is a ground-breaking insight into the Arrernte peoples’ connection to art and cultural practices.
Detective Toni Alma (Hick) is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Aboriginal community she left as a child and has had little to do with over the years. The beauty of Aboriginal art and the sometimes-devious practices in the global art market lead Detective Alma on a hunt for a killer in her hometown.
In Arrernte and English with English subtitles. True Colours will also begin airing on SBS and NITV across four consecutive nights with new episodes coming daily from Monday, 4 July at 8.30pm.
Monday, 4 July on SBS, NITV and SBS On Demand (new episodes coming daily)
Off Country
Australian documentary series **Australian Premiere**
Off Country is a candid documentary series which follows the lives of seven Indigenous students over a year at the prestigious Geelong Grammar School, grappling with family tragedy, mental health, and identity issues.
Wrestling with their conflicting identities as students move between boarding life and home life, the series creates a historic record of one of Australia’s key Indigenous education pathways and a complex portrait of what it is to be a First Nations child in Australia today.
Driven by the students’ stories and told entirely in their own words, Off Country combines personal observational storytelling and features intimate perspectives of contemporary First Nations youth alongside their personal educational experiences.
Off Country will also begin airing on SBS and NITV with new episodes coming weekly from Monday, 4 July. Off Country is an SBS, NITV and SBS On Demand exclusive.
Monday, 4 July on SBS On Demand (new episodes coming weekly)
Michael Mosley’s 21 Day Body Challenge
British health and science documentary series **Australian Premiere**
Three weeks to change your body – and your life. Leading health and diet guru Dr Michael Mosley sets out to help five people who have recently got out of shape – both physically and mentally – because of either lifestyle changes or being sedentary during lockdown.
Michael is looking to overhaul and restore their fitness levels with a healthy, low calorie, intermittent fasting diet combined with an easy exercise regime featuring HIIT – High Intensity Interval Training.
Before getting started, the volunteers undertake medical tests to check for signs of premature ageing. After 21 days of being monitored on the regime, the volunteers should have lost weight, feel better and have greatly improved their aerobic fitness levels.
In addition, they may have reversed any premature ageing – a tried and tested format packed with great viewer take-out: simple, sensible, and effective diet and exercise advice that can really improve people’s lives in just three weeks.
Michael Mosley’s 21 Day Body Challenge will also begin airing on SBS with new episodes coming weekly from Wednesday, 6 July at 7.35pm. Michael Mosley’s 21 Day Body Challenge is an SBS and SBS On Demand exclusive.
Wednesday, 6 July 2022 on SBS and SBS On Demand (new episodes coming weekly)
Das Boot (Season Three)
German war drama **Australian Premiere**
The internationally renowned drama series Das Boot returns with a third season, as three thrilling and emotionally intense storylines show the cruelty and futility of war.
It is spring 1943 when Robert Ehrenberg (Franz Dinda) sails out once more on an impossible mission with a very young and unexperienced CO and crew.
Hunted by the revengeful British Commander Swinburne (Ray Stevenson), the crew of U-949 must have more than just one ace up their sleeves to defy death. Hagen Forster (Tom Wlaschiha) has been assigned a mission in Lisbon during which he meets Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Okon). He is unofficially helping the US Navy to establish a connection
to the Reich’s Navy via his father, Wilhelm Hoffmann (Ernst Stötzner), to end this war. In Kiel, Wilhelm’s daughter Hannie (Luise Wolfram) is stuck in a loveless marriage and the boundaries of her status and a dangerous regime and subsequently plays with fire.
In German and English with English subtitles. Das Boot S3 is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1-2 are currently available on SBS On Demand.
Thursday, 7 July on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available to stream)
Les Honorables (Season Two)
Canadian crime drama **Australian Premiere**
Les Honorables S2, written by Jacques Diamant and directed by Louis Choquette, picks up almost immediately where S1 left off, where Ludovic Dessureaux (Patrick Huard) finds himself behind bars for avenging the murder of his daughter, Gabriel. Now his ex-wife Lucy, eldest daughter Alicia, son Raphael and Gaitan will have to join efforts to free him.
The Dessureaux family must fight against injustice once again when Ludovic is accused of murdering Carey Richard, though he was acting in self-defense. And this time, the lives of family members are at risk.
As the family seeks to defend Ludovic, others are preparing to take matters into their own hands. For starters, mobster Viateur Lajoie wants revenge for the death of his son, Tristan Rabeau. In addition, an extreme right-wing group called the Union for a New Justice is threatening judges as well as the entire judicial system.
And then there’s Élie Chapados, a crime lord who seems to have old scores to settle with Ludovic. Will the members of the Dessureaux clan manage to escape their spiral of vengeance, to overcome injustice and, above all, to keep their family united?
In French Canadian with English subtitles. Les Honorables is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1 is currently available on SBS On Demand.
Thursday, 7 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available to stream)
Lost Luggage
Dutch thriller **Australian Premiere**
Ten days following a terrorist attack on the Brussels Airport, Samira Laroussa (Lara Chedraoui), a strong-hearted, half-Moroccan police officer, is tasked with returning all baggage and personal belongings that were left behind in the departure hall that day.
Every new encounter with a victim or relative will unbalance the seemingly strong Samira who is far from ready to deal with the pains of her own troubled past. Even so, she perseveres in helping everyone.
In her blind determination, however, Samira forgets one thing – herself. Lost Luggage is a bittersweet story about finding solidarity, love, and hope, even in the most difficult times.
In Flemish and Dutch with English subtitles. Lost Luggage is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Thursday, 7 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available to stream)
Chad (Season Two)
American comedy **Australian Premiere**
Chad (Nasim Pedrad) deals with a scandal that quickly ends his presidency, has a surprising new love interest, and gets a visit from his tough-as-nails Iranian grandmother, all while continuing to worry about his popularity and discovering new ways to relate to his Persian cultural roots.
Chad’s epic path to teenage self-realisation is not always a straight line, but the support from his family and best friend Peter (Jake Ryan) keeps him on track, giving him the confidence to help him become who he has always wanted to be – the most American boy in the history of the world.
Chad S2 will also begin airing on SBS VICELAND with new episodes fast-tracked from the US coming weekly from Tuesday, 12 July at 10.20pm, following a double- episode launch. Chad S2 is an SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand exclusive. S1 is currently available on SBS On Demand.
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (new episodes coming weekly)
Paraiso (Season Two)
spanish sci-fi series **Australian Premiere**
Three years have passed since the events of the first season and another group of Undead, the Novavis, appears to have deployed to Almanzora de la Vega. Olivia, taking over from her grandmother as a medium, manages to bring Javi, Álvaro (Pau Gimeno), Zeta (Héctor Gozalbo) and Quino (León Martínez) back to face this new threat.
The Novavis are now much more ruthless and bloodthirsty, and they will not hesitate to take down anyone who interferes in their plans. Javi and his crew must face new and greater dangers, including a secret that will shake the foundations of everything Javi believes in.
Full of nineties nostalgia and mystery, Paraiso has been likened to a Spanish Stranger Things, the supernatural thriller series centered around a group of savvy misfit friends.
In Spanish with English subtitles. Paraiso S2 is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1 is currently available on SBS On Demand.
Thursday, 14 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available to stream)
Don’t Leave Me
Italian crime drama **Australian Premiere**
Deputy Chief Elena Zonin (Vittoria Puccini) lives and works in Rome, where she deals with computer crimes and hunts down a network of paedophiles responsible for the kidnapping and sale of minors on the web. When the lifeless body of a child is found in the Venice lagoon, Elena immediately investigates the case, convinced that it can be traced back to the wider investigation she has been working on for years.
For her, going to Venice also means going home, because that’s where she mysteriously left 20 years earlier. Here she finds Daniele (Alessandro Roia), her great love of the time, now a policeman like her, and Giulia (Sarah Felberbaum), Daniele’s wife, who was once her best friend. The same strong and warm bond of the past is reconstructed step by step between the three, but with the melancholy of the past, of lost opportunities and unspeakable secrets concerning those twenty years that Elena spent away from them.
Elena finds herself caught between the memories and places of her youth, just as the investigation leads the police to uncover a complex and articulated case. A case that will end up involving influential and unsuspected enemies, placing Elena and Daniele in the eye of the storm of an unprecedented mission and which will endanger their own lives.
In Italian with English subtitles. Don’t Leave Me is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Thursday, 14 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available to stream)
Indivisible: Healing Hate
American political documentary series **Australian Premiere**
Mandy Patinkin (The Good Fight) narrates this six-part political documentary series that focuses on the rise of far-right extremism and how it drove the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The series was produced for the one-year anniversary of the insurrection, January 6th, 2022.
Indivisible: Healing Hate is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Monday, 18 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available to stream)
Son Of
Belgian crime drama **Australian Premiere**
Franck Pistone (Serge Van Laeken), a gangster and father, who, having been on the run for 17 years after pulling off the biggest heist of the century, returns to Brussels to reconcile himself with his children because he knows that the end is near. However, his return sets in motion a dangerous treasure hunt – for a stash of diamonds – in one of the most hostile urban jungles in the world – Brussels.
Above all, this is really the story of Camille (Camille Pistone), Franck Pistone’s illegitimate son, who has little choice but to get back in contact with his estranged father because Camille has made an enemy of the Dutch Mafia and is unable to stand up to them on his own. To get himself out of trouble with the Mafia and settle his debt, Camille determines to find the diamonds that his father hid in Brussels 17 years ago.
Sof Of will also begin airing on SBS. In French with English subtitles. Son Of is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Thursday, 21 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available to stream)
Too Close
English thriller **New Series Premiere**
Too Close is about a powerful – but dangerous – closeness between two women. It stars Emily Watson as dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, who is assigned to work with Connie Mortensen (Denise Gough), a wife and mother accused of a despicable crime. Her assessment of the ‘yummy mummy monster’s’ sanity will determine whether Connie faces life in jail, life in a secure psychiatric hospital, or the chance of rehabilitation and release.
Emma hopes that the high-profile case will make her career, but her sessions with Connie quickly become a complex psychological game of cat and mouse with confusing sexual undercurrents. Connie has a searing insight into Emma’s insecurities and brutally exploits them.
It isn’t clear whether she is hoping to manipulate Emma to gain her freedom, or simply toying with Emma for her own entertainment, as she probes into Emma’s own dark past. Emma gradually starts to understand what drove Connie to her crime, but it also seems that she may be getting too close to a woman who is beyond redemption – can Emma see to it that justice is done without destroying herself in the process?
Too Close will also begin airing on SBS with new episodes coming weekly from Wednesday, 27 July at 9.30pm on SBS and midnight on SBS On Demand.
Wednesday, 27 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (new episodes coming weekly)
Helsinki Crimes
Finnish crime drama **Australian Premiere**
Timo Harjunpää (Olli Rahkonen) lives in a small, peaceful town of Kirkkonummi with his wife Elisa and two young daughters. Harjunpää’s summer should be peaceful too but is anything but. Police Sergeant Harjunpää works with the Helsinki Murder Squad, and with his newly assigned partner, Onerva Nykänen (Olga Temonen), gets to deal with cases where every behaviour humanly possible, becomes familiar to them.
A sexual predator killing women introduces Harjunpää and Nykänen to the chilling incel- ideology, while an identity theft leads them into the world of criminal hackers. During the long summer, the pair are trying to figure out what makes under-age kids do terrible, violent crimes, and how heavily traumas and difficult home life experienced in childhood impact people all their lives, making them vulnerable to the life of crime even in adulthood.
The beautiful summery Helsinki looks very different to the eyes of Harjunpää and Nykänen – to them, people are not safe at home, nor on the streets. Their cases don’t leave them alone even on their days off, and they both need to think of the impact their choice of profession has on their families, where, after a difficult day’s work, they both face their own challenges and problems.
Being in the Murder Squad makes you fear for your own family, fear that you’ll lose control of the life of your own children.
In Finnish with English subtitles. Helsinki Crimes is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Thursday, 28 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available to stream)
Alone Denmark (Season Three)
Danish survival reality **Australian Premiere**
In this extreme survival experiment, 10 Danes are dropped off in the Norwegian wilderness to test how long people can survive on their own. In total isolation and with a minimum of aids, they must film their own fight against hunger, the cold, the rugged nature, and not the least themselves! The goal is to survive for as long as possible. The last person standing wins.
Alone Denmark S3 is filmed further south in Norway, with more opportunities for the participants to survive. They only have the option to fish and forage – no hunting allowed.
In Danish with English subtitles. Alone Denmark is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1-2 are currently available on SBS On Demand.
Thursday, 28 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available to stream)
Norwegian-ish
Norwegian comedy drama **Australian Premiere**
Modern, well-integrated, young adults with immigrant backgrounds are often portrayed as the shining image of what multicultural Norway should be – strong, confident people who balance their two cultures perfectly. In other words – the opposite of Helin (Selda Ekiz), Amrit and Fariba. Fortunately, they have each other. With roots in four cultures, the friends try their best to navigate through adulthood with all the awkward situations, insecurities, uncomfortable everyday experiences, and victories it entails.
Helin is the dutiful Turkish daughter and doctor who realises her parents have become far more liberal than herself. Iranian Fariba (Nasrin Khusrawi) decides to play her minority card to get ahead in her professional life. Amrit (Ravdeep Singh Bajwa), an untraditional Indian bar owner, discovers more pros than cons with sticking to his own kind.
Simultaneously their parents struggle with not interfering while their thirty-something children go through the growing pains of life.
When Helin’s little sister gets pregnant outside of marriage and her parents don’t seem to care, Helin’s world is turned upside down. Has her family become too Norwegian? Single mother Fariba’s social media activity draws her into a media circus, and her need for exposure creates a gap between her and her father. Amrit notices that he and his secret Norwegian girlfriend are drifting apart, so he starts to wonder if it is true – like his mother says – that birds of a feather flock together.
In Norwegian, Persian, Punjabi, and Turkish with English subtitles. Norwegian-ish is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
Thursday, 28 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available to stream)
Nasdrovia (Season Two)
Spanish black comedy **Australian Premiere**
Edurne (Leonor Watling) and Julián (Hugo Silva) are two successful lawyers. They decided to quit their careers and open a Russian restaurant – the Nasdrovia.
Unfortunately, it’s so great that it becomes a favourite of the Russian Mafia.
The second season of the comedy-drama, written by the show’s creators Sergio Sarra, Miguel Esteban and Luismi Perez, and its showrunner Marc Vigil, tracks the ex- couple’s excruciating decent into hell, as they fall into the maws of the Russian mob.
Nasdrovia also stars Luis Bermejo.
In Spanish and Russian with English subtitles. Nasdrovia S2 is an SBS On Demand exclusive. S1 is currently available on SBS On Demand.
Thursday, 28 July 2022 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available to stream)
The Six
Polish contemporary drama **Australian Premiere**
A daughter wants to save her father; a husband, his wife; a former lover, his childhood love. They are about to participate in a revolutionary kidney transplant program. They are not compatible with their direct relatives but are compatible with each other’s. Between them, they form a chain. But with the operation imminent, complicated family relationships, past conflicts and hidden resentments resurface. Will they have the strength and courage to risk their lives to save strangers?
In Polish with English subtitles. The Six is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
