October 2024 on SBS on Demand – highlights include The Old Man, Four Years Later, The Sandhamn Murders, So Long Marianne, Bosch, The Gone and a Power and Politics collection.
American thriller series
The Old Man
Box Set
Tuesday, 1 October 2024 on SBS On Demand (all seven episodes available)
The Old Man centres on Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges), who absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid since. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he must reconcile his past. At the same time, the FBI’s Assistant Director for Counterintelligence is called to hunt Chase down because of his complicated past with the rogue fugitive.
Can Chase outrun his secrets, or will they catch him first?
From the maker of The Handmaid’s Tale, this meaty action thriller also stars John Lithgow.
The Old Man will be available on SBS On Demand.
Australian romantic drama series
Four Years Later
Australian Premiere SBS Original
Wednesday, 2 October 2024 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
Can you find your way back to someone you love after being apart for so long? From Easy Tiger, the producers of The Twelve and Colin from Accounts, and created by Mithila Gupta comes Four Years Later.
Set across the two vastly different worlds of India and Australia, this intimate and compelling eight-part series delves into the complex ways love can change over time and distance. Four Years Later stars award-winning actress Shahana
Goswami (Bombay Begums, A Suitable Boy) and Akshay Ajit Singh (24: India), as Sridevi and Yash, who must endure four years apart right after their wedding when Yash lands a highly coveted medical traineeship in Australia. Supporting cast includes Kate Box (Deadloch, SBS’s Erotic Stories), Taj Aldeeb (The Fall), Roy Joseph (Five Bedrooms, Strife) and Luke Arnold (Scrublands, True Colours).
Four Years Later will be available on SBS On Demand, and will air on SBS on Wednesday, 2 October at 9.20pm.
Nordic crime series
The Sandhamn Murders Season 10
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 10 October 2024 on SBS On Demand (all three episodes available)
It’s now been a few months since Alexander’s accident – he’s started rehab, but is still in pain. He decides to move in with Nora, much to her delight, but in the meantime stays at a rehab clinic. After meeting a disgruntled patient, he agrees to swap rooms with him; the next morning he’s awakened by a scream.
In the room Alexander was meant to be staying in, lies the other patient, dead. Did someone mean to kill Alexander instead? So begins a new mystery in this cosy crime series, based on Viveca Sten’s popular novels.
Starring Alexandra Rapaport, Jakob Cedergren and Jonas Malmsjö.
The Sandhamn Murders Season 10 will be available in Swedish with English subtitles.
Canadian-Norwegian romantic drama series
So Long, Marianne
Australian Premiere
Saturday, 19 October 2024 on SBS On Demand (all eight episodes available)
So Long, Marianne tells the legendary love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen, and his muse Marianne Ihlen who inspired the titular song. It’s an intimate tale of two lonely people falling in love during a period of their life when they are trying to figure out who they are and their place in the world, while one is becoming one of the most famous singers of all time. Their story crosses the world, travelling from Norway to Greece, New York and Montreal, with the majority of the series filmed on the picturesque Greek island of Hydra where they lived during the 1960s.
There, they joined legendary Australian novelists Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston, the matriarch and patriarch of a bohemian group of writers, artists, poets, and outcasts who were exploring a new world of free love, drugs, and artistic freedom, but also experiencing the rivalries and jealousy that accompanied their intense, interwoven lives. Leading the cast are Alex Wolff (The Line, Hereditary, Jumanji) as Leonard, with Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last Kingdom, Delete Me, A Storm For Christmas) playing Marianne. Joining them are Anna Torv (The Newsreader, The Last of Us, Mindhunter), Noah Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones) and Peter Stormare (American Gods, Fargo).
So Long, Marianne will be available in English, and Norwegian with English subtitles.
American crime drama series
Bosch Season 3
Box Set
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 on SBS On Demand (all ten episodes available)
LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) investigated his mother’s murder for years, but was unable to bring the killer to justice in the end. The ugly truth behind that case has only left him more tense and restless.
Now, Bosch’s teenage daughter, Maddie, has come to live with him and ushered into his personal life the everyday responsibilities of being a single father. Meanwhile, Bosch remains a tenacious cop who struggles to attain justice in an imperfect system. Between the murder of a homeless veteran, the slaying of another man tied to several unsolved homicides, and a high-profile murder trial involving a Hollywood director, Bosch must take on his most formidable cases to date.
Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels.
Bosch Season 3 will be available on SBS On Demand.
Irish-Kiwi mystery series
The Gone
Australian Premiere
Thursday, 31 October 2024 on SBS On Demand (all six episodes available)
This taut mystery drama follows Dublin -based Theo Richter, an Irish Special Branch detective, as he heads to New Zealand to help search for two young Irish tourists who have vanished without a trace. They’ve gone missing from Mount Affinity, a picturesque rural town with a dark history of disappearance and death that has recently become home to supposedly altruistic tech conglomerate Houkura – dividing the local population.
This will be Richter’s last case as he’s just announced his early retirement, surprising his colleagues. He teams up with Diana Huia, a recently promoted young detective who has decided to return to her hometown to work the case. Seemingly worlds apart, but both hiding secrets, Theo and Diana must find a way of gaining locals’ trust, differentiating facts from fiction and stopping all-out war to find the young Irish couple before the clock runs out.
The Gone will be available on SBS On Demand.
Politics And Power
Special Collection
God And Country
From director Dan Partland and producer Rob Reiner, God And Country looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only America’s constitutional republic, but Christianity itself. Featuring prominent Christian thought leaders, God And Country asks this question: what happens when a faith built on love, sacrifice, and forgiveness is manipulated by some to grow political tentacles, conflating power, money, and belief into hyper-nationalism?
Make America Swift Again
Taylor Swift is more than an absolute pop star; she is an empire worth over a billion dollars. Yet, despite her image and her apolitical lyrics, the singer tears through an America stirred by a particularly violent presidential campaign. The Democrats dream of counting on her media support, while the Republicans, mired in candidate Trump’s legal troubles, are terrified by the influence Taylor Swift could have on the election.
Have I Got News For You U.S.
This comedy panel series delivers comic observations, from the satirical to the surreal, through the lens of a news quiz show. Always relevant and topical, Have I Got News for You serves up a smart and edgy take on the news of the week from host Roy Wood Jr. along with two illustrious team captains, Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black. Together, they guide a rotating collection of guests including notable entertainers, political figures and comedians through an array of comic games and quick-witted panel conversations that test their knowledge of current events.
The Politics And Power collection will be available on SBS On Demand.
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