January 2025 on SBS on Demand

January 2025 on SBS on Demand – highlights include Showtrial, The Darkness, Guilt, Homicide: Life On The Street, Like Water For Chocolate, The Consultant and Playing Nice.

Legal drama anthology series

Showtrial (Seasons 1 -2)

**Australian Premiere of Season 2** **Box Set**

Wednesday, 1 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available)

Across each series of the anthology drama Showtrial – from the producers of Vigil and Line of Duty – we follow high profile murder cases through the eyes of the police, thepublic, and the courts.

Season 2 returns with a brand-new cast and case that grips the media and divides the nation: Notorious climate change activist activist Marcus Calderwood is a fierce advocate of direct, disruptive action and unapologetic about its consequences. As a result, he has as many hostile opponents as he does supporters. So when Marcus is left for dead in a roadside hit-and-run, foul play cannot be discounted. The fact that a dying Marcus named a police officer as his assailant – one with a prior grudge against him – reinforces this suspicion. If Marcus’s death really was a cold-blooded murder, what motives lay behind it? From the victim’s last breath to the jury’s final verdict, Showtrial’s layered characters and intriguing plot twists combine for a compelling drama built on a key question: When a trial is dominated by divisive issues and public outrage, can justice ever be served? Starring Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood, Fool Me Once), Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) and Michael Socha (Chernobyl, This Is England)

Season 1: When Talitha Campbell, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, is arrested following the disappearance of a fellow student, the case grips the nation and whips up a media storm. On Talitha’s side is brilliant solicitor Cleo Roberts. Can Cleo control the narrative of a case that is fast becoming tangled up in the nation’s debates over privilege, wealth and politics?

Showtrial (Seasons 1 -2) will be available on SBS On Demand.

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Icelandic thriller series

The Darkness

**Australian Premiere** **Box Set**

Thursday, 9 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)

At age 66, Hulda Hermannsdóttir is a woman whose eyes have seen many things, most of them painful. She has worked in the police force for decades. Whip-smart, she knows she’s the best cop, but at work she is surrounded by men. Men whose skills simply don’t match up to her own, even if their attitudes suggest otherwise. As she unwillingly approaches retirement, a year after the unexpected death of her daughter Dimma, Hulda is faced with a case of a missing woman that consumes her entirely.

Based on the Ragnar Jónasson novel of the same name. Directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Lena Olin and Douglas Henshall.

The Darkness will be available on SBS On Demand and air Thursday, 9 January at 9.30pm on SBS.

Comic Scottish thriller series

Guilt (Season 3)

**Australian Premiere** **Box Set**

Thursday, 16 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (all four episodes available)

The award-winning TV series is hailed by the Guardian UK as “Scotland’s answer to Fargo”. The show follows polar opposite brothers: unscrupulous lawyer Max McCall(Mark Bonnar, World On Fire, Unforgotten, Shetland), and his softer-hearted brother Jake (Jamie Sives, Annika, Chernobyl), as they get (mostly) into and out of trouble.

This third and final season sees brothers Jake and Max find themselves back in Scotland, where the welcome isn’t as warm as they hoped for. As they face life-defining crises, the series comes to a wild and thrilling conclusion.

Guilt (Seasons 1 – 3) will be available on SBS On Demand.

Police procedural

Homicide: Life On The Street

**Exclusive Library** **Box Set**

Thursday, 16 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (seven seasons and film)

Winner of four Emmy awards, Homicide: Life On The Street is one of the most innovative and influential dramas of all time, remastered in stunning UHD and available as a box set for the first time on SBS On Demand. Created by Paul Attanasio (Donnie Brasco) and executive produced by Tom Fontana (Oz) and Barry Levinson (Dopesick). Built on an ensemble cast, including major guest stars including Robin Williams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi and Juliann Margulies, with a career-defining performance by Andre Baugher as Detective Frank Pembleton

This fast-paced police drama portrays the gritty detective work of a homicide inspired by real murder cases in 1990s Baltimore. A unit of homicide detectives battle an overload of cases in the brutal struggle to keep law and order, all the while wrestling with the toll their difficult work takes on their lives and relationships.

Homicide: Life On The Street (Seasons 1 – 3) will be available from 16 January, followed by season 4 on 23 January and season 5 on 30 January. Seasons 6 and 7, and the movie, will be available in February.

Mexican romance drama series

Like Water For Chocolate

**Australian Premiere** **Box Set**

Thursday, 16 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)

Tita de la Garza and Pedro Múzquiz are two souls deeply in love, yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs. Our star-crossed couple navigate a world of magical realism and rich flavours as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family and her fight for love. The kitchen soon becomes her refuge. For Tita, her magical connection to cooking becomes an active resistance against oppression, allowing her to channel her deepest desires and passions into her recipes, and transforming those who taste them.

Like Water For Chocolate will be available in Spanish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.

Thriller workplace comedy series

The Consultant

**Box Set**

Thursday, 23 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)

After a tragedy at CompWare, a games studio based in Los Angeles, a mysterious consultant, Regus Patoff, blows into town and takes charge. Seemingly unqualified and unpredictable, he quickly makes his presence felt. Gone are the luxuries. Gone is the security. Playtime is over. Soon the employees begin to realise they are not only fighting for their jobs: they are fighting for their lives.

Starring Christoph Waltz, Aimme Carrero, Brittany O’Grady, Nat Wolff and Sloane Avery.

The Consultant will be available on SBS On Demand.

Psychological thriller series

Playing Nice

**Australian Premiere** **Box Set**

Wednesday, 29 January 2025 on SBS On Demand (all four episodes available)

Playing Nice is based on the J.P. Delaney book of the same name. Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?

Couple Pete (James Norton) and Maddie (Niamh Algar) are thrown into the world of the other couple, Miles (James McArdle) and Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay). But while they initially agree on a solution, Pete and Maddie soon learn they can’t trust the other couple, and ulterior motives are at play.

As tensions escalate, Pete and Maddie are forced to go to extreme lengths to protect their family.

Playing Nice will be available on SBS On Demand.