November 2024 on SBS on Demand – highlights include Homeland, Tokyo Vice, The Zelensky Story, The Jury: Death on a Staircase, My Brilliant Friend, The Steeltown Murders, Sopy/ Master, Reyka and Black Sands.
American espionage thriller series
Homeland Seasons 1 – 8
Box Set
Friday, 1 November 2024 on SBS On Demand (all eight seasons available)
This multi-Emmy award-winning series stars Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Mandy Patinkin.
Carrie Mathison, a CIA operations officer, conducts an unauthorised operation in Iraq and is reassigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Centre in Langley, Virginia. Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine Sergeant who had been reported as missing in action since 2003, is rescued from a compound belonging to terrorist Abu Nazir. Brody is heralded as a war hero, but Carrie comes to suspect that he is planning a terrorist attack against the United States.
Seasons 1 -8 of Homeland will be available on SBS On Demand.
American crime series
Tokyo Vice Season 2
Box Set
Sunday, 3 November 2024 on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available)
Filmed on location and loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, this crime drama series follows Adelstein (Ansel Elgort ) as he descends into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in 2000. After being hired as prestigious newspaper Meicho Shimbun’s first American crime reporter, Jake quickly embeds himself alongside Detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe). As he’s thrust deeply into the city’s criminal underworld, Adelstein comes to realise that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger.
Tokyo Vice seasons 1 and 2 will be available on SBS On Demand in Japanese with English subtitles, and season 2 premieres on SBS Viceland on 3 November at 9.25pm.
Documentary series
The Zelensky Story
Australian Premiere Weekly episodes
Tuesday, 5 November 2024 on SBS On Demand (three episodes)
With unique access to Volodymyr Zelensky, Olena Zelenska, and their inner circle, this is the extraordinary journey of a comedian who played the president in a hit TV show and then became the real president of his country.
When fiction becomes reality, Zelensky undergoes a brutal initiation into the world of power-politics during meetings with Trump and Putin. As the drumbeat of war grows louder, Zelensky faces questions about how prepared Ukraine is for war. The former entertainer then leads his country during a full-scale invasion, as he and his wife open up about living through it.
The Zelensky Story will air weekly in English and Ukrainian with English subtitles from 5 November at 8.30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.
Australian true crime event series
The Jury: Death on the Staircase
SBS Original Australian Premiere Weekly episodes Wednesday, 6 November 2024 on SBS On Demand
(five episodes)
What would you do if someone’s life was in your hands? In an Australian first, SBS Original The Jury: Death on the Staircase takes inspiration from a smash-hit format from Channel 4 in the UK to provide insight and analysis on how juries work. Trial by jury has been described as one of the most ‘venerated and venerable’ aspects of our justice system[i], but is it?
Over five unmissable episodes, the series re-enacts a real manslaughter trial* with actors reciting real court transcripts word-for-word. But just as in a real court, the new jury is made up of 12 everyday Australians. The jurors reflect contemporary Australian society – a diverse range of ages, cultures, and life experiences. Will they conclude the accused is an innocent man, or determine he is guilty? Will the new jury arrive at the same decision as the original trial?
The Jury: Death on the Staircase airs weekly, Wednesdays from 6 November at 8:30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.
[i] ‘Geoffrey Robertson, Magna Carta and Jury Trials, British Library 2015 available at https://brewminate.com/magna-carta-and-jury-trial/’
*Names dates, locations and images have been changed to protect identities in the original trial
Italian period drama series
My Brilliant Friend Season 4
Australian Premiere Box Set
Thursday, 14 November 2024 on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available)
This fourth season delves into the adult lives of Elena and Lila. They find themselves entangled in the turmoil of Italy in the late 80s, nearing the end of decades of political violence and social unrest. Elena is preoccupied by the painful separation from Pietro, the success of her novel, and her tumultuous relationship with Nino. She yearns to reclaim lost time with her daughters, who now seem more obedient to Pietro’s parents.
Amid motherhood and career demands, betrayals, threats, disappearances, and natural disasters, Elena and Lila once again reside in the same neighbourhood. They must now navigate new and formidable challenges – clashing, confronting, and supporting each other along the way.
My Brilliant Friend season 4 will be available in Italian with English subtitles on SBS On Demand.
Welsh true crime drama series
The Steeltown Murders
Weekly Episodes
Thursday, 21 November 2024 on SBS On Demand (four episodes)
Starring Phil Glenister (Life On Mars) and Steffan Rhodri (House Of The Dragon).
Based on real life events.
Set in both 1973 and the early 2000s, The Steeltown Murders centres on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area and the remarkable story of how – in the first case of its kind – the mystery was solved almost thirty years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of two different time periods, the series is a portrait of a town dealing with the repercussions of an unsolved case three decades on and asks if justice can ever truly be found.
The Steeltown Murders will air weekly from 21 November at 9.30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.
Cold War espionage thriller series
Spy/Master
Australian Premiere Box Set
Thursday, 21 November 2024 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
Set during the height of the Cold War, Spy/Master covers a week in the life of fictional character Victor Godeanu, played by Alec Secăreanu (God’s Own Country, Ammonite, Happy Valley), the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. However, Godeanu is also a secret agent for the KGB and must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. With only one shot at staying alive, he uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to the United States.
Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and former flame played by Svenja Jung
(Deutschland89), and an up-and-coming CIA agent played by Parker Sawyers
(Southside with You), Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country’s spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.
Spy/Master will be available in Romanian with English subtitles and English on SBS On Demand.
Noirvember
Special Collection
Celebrate Noir in every shade with this collection, featuring TV shows and movies with gasp-worthy twists, imperfect heroes and shady dealings. Spanning from Nordic, Celtic, Canadian, British, Australian and Neo Noir, the Noirvember SBS On Demand hub is your go-to for the best of the genre.
Featured titles include:
Reyka Season 2 Australian Premiere Box Set
Reyka Gama (Kim Engelbrecht) investigates a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields, KwaZulu-Natal. Her past trauma of being abducted as a child by a farmer (Iain Glen, Game Of Thrones) haunts her, but also gives her a way to enter the minds of Africa’s most notorious criminals.
Black Sands Season 2 Australian Premiere Box Set
Set in the bleak Arctic winter, the town of Glerársandar is fourteen months after the Black Sands tragedy; the survivors are still haunted by the revelation that a beloved resident was a serial killer. The mystery deepens with the strange death of an elderly woman, Helena, and another shocking murder.
The Noirvember collection will be available on SBS On Demand.
November on SBS on Demand
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November 2024 on SBS on Demand
