April 2025 on SBS on Demand – highlights include Cold Summer, Sydney’s Super Tunnels, 30 Days of Lust, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Big Eurovision Party, The Secret DNA of Us and Pandore.
Italian crime thriller
Cold Summer
**Australian Premiere** **Box Set”
Tuesday 1 April 2025 on SBS On Demand (All eight episodes available at launch)
Cold Summer was a sensational success in Italian primetime as Il metodo Fenoglio – L’estate fredda.
The series is adapted from the bestselling novel by former anti-Mafia prosecutor Gianrico Carofiglio.
The story opens in Bari, October 1991. The murder of a moneylender seems only a small case to be quickly dismissed. Marshal Fenoglio (Alessio Boni) of the Carabinieri Operational Unit does not think so. On the other hand, Fenoglio has theories that often conflict with those of his superiors. He knows that stories are never as simple as they would like to be. And he also knows that the local small-time underworld is taking the form of a far more terrible and deadly organisation.
Cold Summer will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand in Italian with English subtitles,
Want more Italian language dramas?
Mussolini: Son of the Century – directed by Joe Wright, starring Luca Marinelli as Benito Mussolini Miss Fallaci – starring Miriam Leone as journalist Oriana Fallaci
My Brilliant Friend – based on Elena Ferrante’s bestselling Neapolitan Novels More dramas and other genres available on SBS On Demand.
Monster machine and mega engineering series
Sydney’s Super Tunnel Season 2
**Australian Premiere** **New episodes weekly**
Thursday 3 April 2025 on SBS On Demand (Four episodes)
Monster machines smashing through walls of sheer sandstone. Tunnels dug deep under one of the world’s most iconic harbours. Driverless trains using the latest autonomous technology.
Welcome aboard Sydney’s Super Tunnel Season 2 — an extraordinary behind-the-scenes factual series capturing the construction of the newest Sydney Metro line which opened recently under the centre of the city.
Almost a decade ago, the challenge was set — build a new, driverless metro railway through the heart of Sydney to bust crippling road congestion for generations to come. Filmed over eight years, Sydney’s Super Tunnel was granted unprecedented access behind the construction fences of this world-scalemega project, capturing the human spirit of the massive engineering challenge facing more than 50,000 workers. With a multinational team of men and women from across the globe descending on Sydney, they join local engineers, tunnellers and tradespeople to face the complexities of such a mega construction project.
Sydney’s Super Tunnel S2 will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand from Thursday 3 April with new episodes available weekly and airing on SBS Thursdays at 8.30pm.
German comedy series
30 Days of Lust
**Australian Premiere** **Box Set**
Thursday 3 April 2025 on SBS On Demand (All eight episodes)
A daring experiment puts Freddy and Zeno’s 15-year relationship to the test: 30 days of sex with whomever they want. Can it do the trick? Or will this risky escapade end up crushing them. This series was the Audience Choice Winner at the Seriencamp Festival in 2024.
Freddy (Linda Blümchen) and Zeno (Simon Steinhorst ) are what you would call high school sweethearts. After 15 years, the pharmacist and the art restorer, both about to turn 30, still see eye to eye, even in the bedroom. Thus, Zeno is taken by surprise by Freddy’s peculiar proposal: For 30 days, both are allowed to have sex with whomever they want. Zeno doesn’t really get where that comes from but agrees half-heartedly. Ironically, Freddy‘s first date with her former professor ends in disaster, while Zeno breaks sexual ground during an unexpected threesome with a couple next door.
Whenever Freddy and Zeno meet after their most awkward dates and absurd sex encounters, they eye each other‘s success stories and salacious bits with suspicion. Then again, chance encounters in between give rise to moments of tenderness. So, what will happen on day 30 +1? Will the emotional rollercoaster of enthusiasm and disappointment, excitement, and despair bring Freddy and Zeno closer together? Or was the experiment too much to ask?
30 Days of Lust will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand in German with English subtitles.
Final phenomenal season
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6
**Australian Premiere****Fast tracked for SBS On Demand** **Triple episode premiere, then single episodes weekly **
Tuesday 8 April 2025 on SBS On Demand (10 episodes)
The global phenomenon and Emmy® Award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its epic sixth and final season.
June’s (Elisabeth Moss) unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead. Luke (O.T. Fagbenle) and Moira (Samira Wiley) join the resistance. Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence ( Bradley Whitford) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick (Max Minghella) faces challenging tests of character.
This final chapter of June’s journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom. Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, Sam Jaeger, Ever Carradine and Josh Charles also star.
The Handmaid’s Tale S6 will stream free on SBS On Demand from Tuesday 8 April, with the triple episode premiere fast-tracked to be available from 2.01pm. The season will continue to be fast-tracked with new episodes available weekly on Tuesdays up to the finale on 27 May.
On SBS, The Handmaid’s Tale S6 will air from Wednesday 9 April at 8.40pm as a double episode (1 and 2) and then another double episode (3 and 4) on Wednesday 16 April at 8.40pm. Then from 23 April, new episodes will air weekly Wednesdays at 9.45pm until the season finale which will air on Tuesday 27 May at 9.30pm, with an encore on Wednesday 28 May at 9.35pm.
Celebrate with Eurovision legends past & present
The Big Eurovision Party
**Australian Premiere**
Thursday 10 April 2025 on SBS On Demand
Get ready for a spectacular show filled with some of the biggest names from the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, hosted by Eurovision star Edsilia Rombley.
Filmed in December 2024 at the packed Ziggo Dome stadium in Amsterdam, The Big Eurovision Party concert sees Eurovision legends perform some of the most memorable songs from the much-loved, iconic song competition. Meanwhile, backstage, Eurovision expert and Drag Race UK alumni Tia Kofi has the time of her life as she meets some of the stars of the show.
Prepare to sing along and relive Eurovision earworms and memories with Loreen, Nemo, Käärijä, Katrina (of Katrina and the Waves), Johnny Logan, Marija Šerifović, Baby Lasagna, Bambie Thug, Kristian Kostov, Alessandra, Marcus & Martinus and Australia’s Guy Sebastian to name but a few.
The Big Eurovision Party celebrates the magic and legacy of the world’s most-beloved song contest!
Family secrets and hidden histories revealed
The Secret DNA of Us
**Australian Premiere** **SBS Original**
Thursday 17 April 2025 on SBS On Demand (Four episodes)
The Secret DNA of Us is a world first television series in which four Australian towns and neighbourhoods are offered mass DNA tests to unveil wild hidden chapters of our history and reveal more about who we are as a nation.
The series puts host Marc Fennell, journalist Rae Johnston and ancestry expert Brad Argent on the ground in four communities and uses DNA results to identify surprising common ancestors, unknown ethnicities and solve family mysteries. Across four episodes the series visits Bairnsdale (Vic), Surry Hills (NSW), Geelong (Vic) and Bathurst (NSW) and in seemingly ordinary places there areextraordinary discoveries.
The Secret DNA of Us will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand from Thursday 17 April with new episodes available weekly and airing on SBS Thursdays at 7.30pm.
Subtitling will be available SBS On Demand in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Korean.
Episode 1 – Join Marc Fennell and the team as they bring mass DNA testing to the Victorian town of Bairnsdale, where they give an adoptee her father’s identity, a Gunaikurnai man a new piece of the family puzzle, an ex-nurse a royal connection and reveal unlikely cousins within the community.
Political and legal thriller
Pandore Season 2
**Australian Premiere** **Box Set**
Friday 24 April 2025 on SBS On Demand (Six episodes)
Pandore is a thriller exploring the escalating clash between justice, politics media and big tech.
The story resumes two years after the events of the first season of this Belgian drama with Mark as the Minister for Justice and Claire running her own law firm. She will have to fight battles on two fronts. The first is to defend young whistleblower Alix, who has exposed the violations of the GAĨ_ APP corporation and the second is defending Hélène in her divorce from Mark. Claire will put her heart and soul into these cases which will lead her to Mark and Krystal and open old wounds.
Starring Anne Coesens as Claire, Yoann Banc a Mark Van Dyck, Edwige Baily as Hélène Van Dyck, Myriem Akheddiou as Krystal and Jimony Ekila as Alix.
Pandore S2 will be available to stream free on SBS On Demand in French with English subtitles,
Pandore S1 returns to SBS On Demand from Tuesday 1 April.
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