June on SBS on Demand – SBS on Demand highlights for the month of June include Inside Sydney Airport, Clean Sweep, Couples Therapy, Sisi, Limbo, The Kingdom, The Orchestra, The Crash, The Sandhamn Murders, Crisis In Cocaine Valley, Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, The First Inventors, Riding In Darkness, Paris Police 1905, Hudson and Rex, Silent Road, 1985, El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid, The Truth Will Out, Couple Trouble, Elvira and A Very Ordinary World.
australian documentary
Inside Sydney Airport (Series 1)
SBS Commission Thursday, 1 June 2023 SBS & SBS On Demand (episodes coming weekly)
With privileged access, Inside Sydney Airport captures the hour-by-hour dramas, operations, characters, and heart of the city-within-a-city that is Sydney’s Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith Airport – one of the oldest, continuously operating airports in the world.
Since Australia’s international borders re-opened in late 2021, thousands of families and individuals from around the world have reunited at the airport. These few square kilometres are a microcosm of multicultural Australia, with a diverse workforce and emotional stories playing out every day at Arrivals and Departures.
Inside Sydney Airport premieres on Thursday, 1 June on SBS On Demand and will air on SBS at 7.30pm, continuing weekly.
irish thriller
Clean Sweep
Australian Premiere Thursday, 1 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
Shelly Mohan is outwardly an unassuming housewife and mother. She works hard to take care of her three children and husband, Jason, a local detective.
Out of the blue, Shelly is confronted by her criminal ex-boyfriend who threatens to expose her true identity and destroy her life.
Caught between the past and the present, she makes a fatal choice that forces her to cover up one from the other and vice versa. Hiding from her husband and by extension law enforcement, she becomes embroiled in a world of deceit and danger.
Stars Charlene McKenna (Bloodlands, Vienna Blood) and Barry Ward.
Clean Sweep S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
american documentary
Couples Therapy (Season 3)
Series Premiere Thursday, 1 June 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS VICELAND (eighteen episodes)
Couples Therapy unlocks a hidden world: other people’s relationships. Far from reality-show caricatures, this is true documentary series that brings viewers into the authentic and visceral experience of weekly therapy with four couples.
World-class therapist Dr. Orna Guralnik deftly guides the couples through the minefield of honest confrontation with each other and with themselves, revealing the real-life struggles and extraordinary breakthroughs typically hidden behind closed doors.
Couples Therapy S3, episodes 1-9 will be available on SBS On Demand from Thursday, 1 June, and will begin airing weekly as double episodes on SBS VICELAND from Tuesday, 6 June at 9.40pm. Episodes 10-18 will be available on SBS On Demand after airing on SBS VICELAND from Tuesday, 4 July at 9.30pm. Couples Therapy S1-2 are currently available to stream on SBS On Demand.
german period drama
Sisi (Season 2)
Australian Premiere SBS ON Demand Box-Set Thursday, 1 June 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS (all six episodes available)
Sisi is a beautifully lush period drama based on the complex life of historical figure, Elisabeth of Austria, whose love of freedom and promise to give the Habsburg monarchy a gentler face captivated Europe.
In season two, the joyous arrival of an heir for Sisi and Franz is soon overshadowed by renewed power struggles in Europe: Bismarck threatens to plunge Austria into war. Sisi tries with all her might to be there for her husband and her people, but despite demonstrating her diplomatic talent over and over, she remains the bird in a golden cage.
As she takes on more political responsibility, Sisi discovers new strengths and weakness drawing from her past, which she must navigate to lead the people and her loved ones into the future.
Sisi S2 will also air at a later date on SBS and will be available in German with English subtitles. S1 is currently available to stream on SBS On Demand.
swedish thriller
Limbo
Australian Premiere Thursday, 1 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba, My, and Gloria: news that their respective sons have been involved in a serious car crash. The events that follow put their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test. With Ebba’s son Jakob hovering between life and death, the three women find themselves in a devastatingly uncertain situation.
Stars Sofia Helin (The Bridge), Rakel Wärmländer and Louise Peterhoff.
Limbo S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Swedish with English subtitles.
australian documentary
The Kingdom
SBS Commission Thursday, 8 June 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS
Walkley award-winning journalist Marc Fennell returns to the world of Pentecostal religion after running away 17 years ago.
In a deeply personal documentary, Marc investigates how Australia produced one of the world’s most successful and scandal plagued megachurches: Hillsong…and asks if this kingdom is crumbling then who will take its place?
Marc meets current and fellow former believers who expose the human cost of the Pentecostal juggernaut and explores how allegations of bullying, sexual assault, and financial mismanagement have eroded Hillsong’s once mighty empire.
He confronts his own past spent in these churches, where he witnessed adults speaking in tongues, falling to the ground, and demons being thrown out of people. He explains why he escaped and why he’s remained largely silent about it until now.
Presenter and Producer Marc Fennell said,
“The moment the rest of the world knows that you have this in your past, they don’t pay attention to whether you liked it, hated it or if you left. You get tarred with it. Many people have had their lives positively transformed by Pentecostalism. But there are also volunteers, staff, victims, and others who have been completely chewed up and spat out by modern megachurches.”
Spanning a wild journey around Australia and into the USA, The Kingdom takes cameras inside up-and-coming Pentecostal megachurches making the bold moves into Hillsong’s turf and asks: is this the competition for souls it seems to be and can they succeed where Hillsong has failed its followers?
The Kingdom premieres Thursday, 8 June on SBS On Demand and 7.30pm Sunday, 11 June on SBS. The series will be available on SBS On Demand with Simplified Chinese and Arabic subtitles.
danish comedy
The Orchestra
Australian Premiere Thursday, 8 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available)
The Orchestra is a workplace comedy set in and around a Symphony Orchestra. An odd friendship develops between the newly appointed deputy director, Jeppe and the second-chair clarinetist for the Orchestra, the irritable loner Bo, who lives for music and who has one all-important goal: to become the first-chair clarinetist.
The Symphony Orchestra is a colourful workplace with its very own set of rules and hierarchies and a hotbed for power struggles, jealousy, and relationship challenges. The story unfolds amid these struggles and the extreme pressures of expectation, that is expected in a highly professional work environment.
The Orchestra S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Danish with English subtitles.
danish thriller
The Crash
Australian Premiere Thursday, 8 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all five episodes available)
October 4th, 1992 at 6:36 pm. A Boeing 747 crashes onto two jam-packed residential high rises in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer, with devastating consequences.
The Dutch government soon claims the airplane only carried perfume, flowers, and computer parts. Almost everybody accepts the official account of the disaster, and they go back to business as usual.
Yet, some residents and aid workers begin to ask questions as their community and loved ones begin to fall ill. Soon presented facts don’t add up anymore. Facing the mighty forces of the Dutch government and Israeli secret services, three individuals — Asha, Vincent, and Pierre, being an investigation to uncover the truth.
The Crash S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Danish with English subtitles.
swedish crime drama
The Sandhamn Murders (Season 9)
Australian Premiere SBS ON Demand Box-Set Thursday, 15 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all three episodes available)
It is a beautiful summer morning on the island of Sandhamn in the Swedish archipelago. On the edge of an idyllic beach, a dead man’s body floats up to the surface entangled in a fishing net.
Crime Inspector Thomas Andreasson is called to the scene. He has a personal closeness to the island but carries an unspoken dark past. With traumas fresh in his memory, he returns to Sandhamn to solve the mystery.
The Sandhamn Murders is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Swedish with English. S1-8 is currently available to stream on SBS On Demand.
canadian documentary
Crisis In Cocaine Valley
Australian Premiere Thursday, 15 June 2023 SBS On Demand
Cocaine, of all the party drugs, is one of the most expensive, and Peru is the world’s second-largest producer. But now the “Cocaine Valley” is near collapse, due to a crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Then, there is the ever-tougher policing around the world. As a result, dealers are losing everything, and resorting to desperate measures to maintain control of the illicit market. Crises In Cocaine Valley tracks the origins of their decline, the brutal lengths they are willing to go to, and the fallout they leave behind.
Crises In Cocaine Valley is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in English and Spanish with English subtitles.
british comedy
Deep Fake Neighbour Wars
Australian Premiere Thursday, 15 June 2023 SBS On Demand & SBS VICELAND (all six episodes available)
Deep Fake Neighbour Wars is a brand-new impressions show and the world’s first long-form narrative show that uses Deep Fake technology.
The show sees the world’s favourite celebrities as ordinary people embroiled in petty neighbour disputes. From dentist Billie Eilish to Taekwondo teacher Beyonce, to wannabe strongman Chris Rock and farmer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, all likenesses have been baked into the British suburbs.
The latest AI technology turns the UK’s best new impressionists into the world’s most famous celebrities and lets them battle it out over boundary lines, community gardens, and bins.
Deep Fake Neighbour Wars S1 will also air at a later date on SBS VICELAND.
australian documentary
The First Inventors
NITV Commission Thursday, 15 June 2023 NITV & SBS On Demand (episodes coming weekly)
NITV and Network 10 premiere a new, four-part documentary series celebrating and exploring the world’s longest-surviving culture – that of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The First Inventors is presented and narrated by Logie Award-winning actor and proud Tiwi Islander man Rob Collins, who leads a team of First Nations investigators, uncovering more than 65,000 years of invention and innovation.
This four-part series is the story of how entire landscapes were transformed, how prehistoric events were recorded as far back as the last ice age, and how societies were organised. Ultimately, this story of ancient knowledge also reveals insights that could help navigate the challenges in our future.
The First Inventors premieres on NITV and Network 10 on Thursday 15 June at 8.30pm, and continues weekly. The series will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand and will be subtitled in Arabic and Simplified Chinese.
swedish thriller
Riding In Darkness
Australian Premiere Thursday, 15 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
Riding in Darkness is inspired by the real events that took place at an equestrian centre in Sweden from the early 90s to 2016.
In 1996, Tommy Lund seemed untouchable and above all suspicion. He was seen by everyone as a loving father, husband, and a passionate trainer who took care of the finest riders in the country. When Molly, an underprivileged girl from a broken family, arrives at Heddesta in 1996, she never imagined what lay ahead. She soon realises that she is not the only victim of Tom’s predatory and manipulative behaviour.
Riding In Darkness S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be in available in Swedish with English subtitles.
french period drama
Paris Police 1905 (Season 2)
Australian Premiere Thursday, 15 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
Paris, Christmas 1904. When the Paris police department – under the orders of Police Chief Lépine begin to clear prostitutes from the city’s streets, a man’s body is found in the Bois de Boulogne gardens. Inspector Antoine Jouin is entrusted with the investigation, which leads him into an illicit world where pimps, blackmailers and crooked doctors are interlinked in a web of intrigue.
Stars Jèrèmie Laheurte (Blue Is the Warmest Colour), Evelyn Brochu (Pawn Sacrifice) and Marc Barbé.
Paris Police S2 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be in available in French with English subtitles.
canadian crime drama
Hudson and Rex (Season 1 & 2)
Series Premiere SBS On Demand Box-Set Thursday, 22 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all episodes available)
Detective Charlie Hudson has a sterling reputation within the St. John’s Police Department. When a K9 Unit officer dies in the line of duty, Charlie takes in her canine partner, Rex, and soon realizes that the German Shepherd has a knack for discovering subtle clues easily missed by humans.
Seeing potential in a detective with keen extrasensory abilities, Superintendent Joseph Donovan makes Rex a bona fide member of the Major Crimes team, and Charlie’s official partner in the field.
Stars John Reardon, Kevin Hanchard.
Hudson and Rex S1-2 is an SBS On Demand exclusive.
greek thriller
Silent Road
Australian Premiere Thursday, 22 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all thirteen episodes available)
In one of the richest suburbs of Athens, the bus of a private school disappears. On board the bus were nine elementary students from rich and powerful families, along with the bus driver and chaperon.
The police forces scout the area and Nasos, an experienced detective, is placed in charge of the investigation. In a strange turn of events, Thalia, a young journalist and the black sheep of one of the most powerful families in town, becomes the only person the kidnappers chose to communicate with. Thalia immediately becomes a person of interest for the police.
Stars Penelope Tsilika, Dimitris Lalos and Christos Loulis.
Silent Road S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Greek with English subtitles.
belgian crime drama
1985
Australian Premiere Thursday, 22 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
Set against the backdrop of Belgium’s most notorious unsolved crime spree, 1985 centres around three friends – Vicky, her brother Franky, and his best friend Marc as they begin a new chapter in their lives and set off from their hometown to Brussels.
But as they start adulthood and their careers in the big city, the trio risk losing their innocence and noble illusions when they find themselves caught in the middle of the horrifying events that not only shocked a generation but left a scar on the country’s past.
Stars Tijmen Govaerts, and Titus De Voogdt.
Silent Road S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Greek with English subtitles.
spanish crime drama
El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid
Australian Premiere Thursday, 22 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all thirteen episodes available)
Flanked by his hot-headed brother Sebas and his more cautious chum Rober, José-Antonio rises up the ranks to become a drug lord in Spain in the 90’s. Knowing when to stay in the grey and when to strike hard sets José apart from his rivals and helps him cheat death more than a handful of times.
Expanding his reign to party paradise Ibiza, José and his gang – now baptised ‘Los Miami’ for their ruby-red baseball jackets – uproot the island’s underworld power structure.
El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid S1 will also play at a later date on SBS and will be available in Spanish with English subtitles.
swedish crime drama
The Truth Will Out
Series Premiere Thursday, 29 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
After a long absence, detective Peter Wendel returns to the duty. He is commissioned to form a team to reopen unresolved murder cases, however he soon finds himself with a lowered rank and staff in conflict.
But before they can adjust the unit is thrust into a new case: an unknown murderer claims that Sweden’s most infamous murder spree is a fraud. If true, the implication are enormous and go all the way up the ranks of the government. It’s up to Peter and his team to pull together and uncover the truth.
Stars Robert Gustafsson, Johan Ulveson, Louise Peterhoff, Ia Langhammer, Christopher Wagelin.
The Truth Will Out S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be in available in Swedish with English subtitles.
danish contemporary drama
Couple Trouble (Series 1-2)
Australian Premiere SBS ON Demand Box-Set Thursday, 29 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all sixteen episodes available)
Anders and Lise, a married couple in their 30s, start seeing a couples’ counsellor in hopes of restoring their relationship.
Between the day-to-day challenges of running a household, in-laws and parental difficulties, the two work their way through their emotions and external forces to recover what made drew them together seven years earlier.
Couple Trouble S1-2 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in Danish with English subtitles.
danish thriller
Elvira
Australian Premiere Thursday, 29 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
Elvira’s world turns upside down when Candy, a sex worker at the brothel where she works as a receptionist, goes missing.
Elvira is drawn into the dangerous criminal underworld of Copenhagen to find her, and the few people she is close to become implicated – her sweet brother battling addiction, and their close childhood friend, Køster who leads a double life as both police officer and brothel boss.
Navigating the complex web of human trafficking, shell companies, and deceitful personalities, Elvira finds herself becoming an underdog to fight for justice for those that no one else will.
Elvira S1 will also air at a later date on SBS. The series will be available in Danish with English subtitles
french contemporary drama
A Very Ordinary World
Australian Premiere Thursday, 29 June 2023 SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
Romain is an 18-year-old student who wants to become a porn actor in an alternate reality where society is dominated by matriarchy. Romain will have to make a place for himself in a world that is exceedingly difficult for men to navigate: filled with twisted auteurs, abusive female colleagues, and one where you go out-of-date as soon as you turn 35.
A Very Ordinary World puts a high-concept twist on the porn industry to deliver a scathing critique of the patriarchal and masculine world we live in.
Stars Jérémy Gillet, Romane Bohringer, Sophie-Marie Larrouy, and Raïka Hazanavicius.
A Very Ordinary World S1 is an SBS On Demand exclusive and will be available in French with English subtitles.
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