September 2024 on SBS on Demand – highlights include Suspect, The Sixth Commandment, Exit, Those Who Kill, Spent, Maxima, Dumbsday and The Hunt.
British crime drama series
Suspect Season 2
Australian Premiere
Monday, 2 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
When Jon (Dominic Cooper) admits under hypnosis that he kills women and intends on killing a girl tonight, his psychotherapist, Dr Susannah Newman (Anne-Marie Duff), knows he must be stopped.
Susannah contacts the police and her former lover, DSI Richard Groves (Ben Miller), but when he refuses to take action, Susannah is forced to save the girl alone. She embarks on a dangerous mission as she tries to track down Jon. But to stop him and save his intended victim, Susannah must confront painful truths about the death of her daughter.
Suspect Seasons 1 – 2 will be available on SBS On Demand and premiere on SBS on 2nd September at 11.05pm.
British true crime drama series
The Sixth Commandment
Wednesday, 4 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all four episodes available)
This true crime miniseries explores the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and the extraordinary events that unfolded over the following years.
The Sixth Commandment tells the story of how the meeting of an inspirational teacher, Peter Farquhar ( Timothy Spall) and a charismatic student, Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke), set the stage for one of the most complex and confounding criminal cases in recent memory. The chilling revelations that follow expose the devastating effects of isolation – and how deep manipulation can run.
The Sixth Commandment will be available on SBS On Demand and premieres on SBS on September 4th at 9.25pm.
Norwegian financial thriller series
Exit Season 3
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 5 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all seven episodes available)
In their elite and seemingly perfect world, four multimillionaire friends share a profound dissatisfaction with the monotony of everyday life, and seek the thrills only big money can buy.
In this third season, the fossil-fuel crisis extends its grip on the global economy and money is flowing like never before into green energy – only to be siphoned off in shady dealings and mysterious hedge funds. The bonanza feeds a new frenzy of hedonism and risk taking amongst the four financial high-fliers, but this time, the women in their life are planning to beat them at their own game.
Exit Seasons 1 – 3 will be available on SBS On Demand in Norwegian with English subtitles.
Danish Nordic noir series
Those Who Kill Seasons 3 – 4
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 12 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all sixteen episodes available)
Criminal profiler Louise Bergstein (Natalie Madueño ) is on edge after her most recent case, but when a couple is brutally murdered, she is determined to track down the killer. As she teams up with police investigator Frederik Havgaard (Simon Sears), all evidence points to a young man with a terrible and desperate past. To find the answers she seeks, Louise must face the darkness once more.
Those Who Kill Seasons 1 -4 will be available in Danish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
British comedy series
Spent
Australian Premiere
Friday, 13 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
From the executive producers of I May Destroy You and Catastrophe, inspired by the real-life experiences of its writer and lead Michelle de Swarte.
Despite her humble beginnings, Mia has become accustomed to the finer things in life. Beautiful clothes, beautiful friends and an abundant bank balance. Unfortunately, Mia’s jet-set career has seriously stalled. The truth is, she’s bankrupt, pushing 40 and struggling to find somewhere to sleep. Now Mia is on the run, mainly from herself. Upon her return home, she realises that her friends and family come with their own complications; it’s not quite the champagne reception she was hoping for. Eventually, she’ll have to accept her new reality but until then, it’s going to be a little bumpy for Mia – and everyone in her orbit.
Spent will be available on SBS On Demand and air on SBS Viceland on 13th August at 10.25pm.
Dutch romantic drama series
Maxima
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 19 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
Based on the real-life love story of Queen Maxima and King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands.
Seville, 1999. From the moment the beautiful Argentine Maxima appears at the Dutch Crown Prince‘s side, she finds herself in the spotlight. But when Willem-Alexander asks her to marry him, the past catches up with her. Heated discussions erupt about her fa ther‘s political career in the Argentinian Videla regime – something she never faced in her own circles. Can Maxima thrive at an old European court? Or will she have to give up her identity and family for the crown?
Maxima will be available in Dutch, Spanish and English with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
Norwegian comedy series
Dumbsday
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 19 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available)
The world has ended! A virus attacking people’s brains causes intelligence to drop to un-survivable levels worldwide. In the ashes of Norway, six survivors carry the only hope for mankind’s further existence.
When handed the only existing vaccine, Frode; would-be musician, Instagram poet and technically-not-still-living-in-his-mom’s-basement-as-he-has-his-own-entrance; considers himself The Chosen One. His quest: deliver the vaccine to the mysterious Station Echo, where the country’s smartest people are said to be in hiding. He is aided by the chain-smoking, self-proclaimed girlboss Trine; the infuriatingly positive Lone, personal trainer and perfect physical specimen Jokke; doomsday prepper and alpha male Perry (IQ 139); and Thea: a dark-souled girl with a compulsion to burn down everything she sees.
They are not the heroes we need. Or the heroes we deserve. But they are the only ones we’ve got.
Dumbsday will be available in Norwegian with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
Dutch period thriller series
The Hunt
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 26 September 2024 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
Inspired by a true crime that gripped a whole nation for more than a decade.
In the spring of 1999, the body of a 16-year-old girl was found on the outskirts of a small village in The Netherlands, next to an asylum seekers’ centre. The Hunt depicts how the long and frustrating search for the perpetrator confronted the inhabitants and asylum seekers of this little Dutch town with xenophobia, racism, and bizarre and persistent conspiracy theories, fuelled by social media.
The crime remained unsolved for more than 12 years – until an unprecedented use of a large-scale DNA investigation promised to crack the case.
The Hunt will be available on SBS On Demand in Dutch with English subtitles.
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