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SBS Australia
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- SBS Australia
Top new series coming to SBS On Demand in May 2025
L-R: Go-Jo from Eurovision 2025, Who Do You Think You Are?, The Veil and Dark Winds. Sherlock & Daughter, season 1 Black Forest Murders, season 1 Who Do You Think You Are?, season 16 Eurovision Song Contest 2025 The Man Who Died, season 2 Couples Therapy, season 4, part 2 Sherlock Holmes finds himself in a most unusual state: extortion. He is stymied, unable to investigate a recent spate of high-profile kidnappings lest he incur the wrath of a mysterious criminal syndicate who have taken hostage his dearest friends, Doctor Watson and Mrs. Hudson. Meanwhile, a young American woman named Amelia Rojas travels across the world after a murder in her home in California, intent on meeting the famed detective with whom she claims a startling connection. When this strange young woman shows up on his doorstep, Sherlock must determine whether she is a threat, an asset, or, somehow, family. Sherlock & Daughter premieres Thursday 8 May on SBS and SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS starting Thursday 8 May at 9.30pm. A young woman goes missing. After an intensive search, her body is found, beaten to death by a stranger. Detective Barbara Kramer from the police in Lauburg, Baden-Württemberg, and her team begin the search for the perpetrator, talking to witnesses and gathering evidence. Although the team grows into a large special investigation unit, securing hundreds of leads and trying to make connections, the investigation seems to lead nowhere. In addition, the special unit must deal with a second murder, of which it is not clear whether and how it is related to the first. And parallels to a similar case in Austria that took place four years earlier become apparent. Under the eyes of a worried public, the police officers have to keep asking themselves whether any new information can be expected and where it can be found. Nevertheless, the pressure of the investigation is maintained for months. Their persistence is finally rewarded: decisive clues are consolidated into evidence. Arrests can be made and the conclusion of the police work helps the region to come to terms with the tragic events. Black Forest Murders season 1 premieres Thursday 8 May on SBS On Demand. The Italian Grand Tour comes once again to SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand in 2025 with the notoriously steep slopes of the Alps, Dolomites and Apennines all set to feature, with coverage of every pedal stroke. A stellar line-up of general classification contenders headlines this year's Italian Grand Tour, with Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe's two-pronged attack of previous Giro champions Primoz Roglic and Aussie Jai Hindley set to feature in May. The route features two time trials, four flat and seven mountain stages after its start in Albania, with tough climbs in the south of Italy and the steep San Pellegrino in Alpe in the Tuscan Apennines. All races for the Giro d'Italia premiere live on SBS VICELAND and will be live-streamed on SBS On Demand from Friday 9 May - Sunday 1 June. You can catch live streams, full replays, and the winning moment from every stage on SBS On Demand. Seven participants, each with their own set of special skills, are flown into the harsh nature of Lapland, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. Armed with bows, arrows, fishing rods, axes and stubbornness, the survivalists of Alone Denmark season 8 must build their own homes and provide their own food. However, early on in the competition, the journey takes a surprise turn. This year promises to be colder, tougher and more extreme than ever before. Alone Denmark premieres Monday 12 May on SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand with weekly triple episodes. Episodes air weekly at SBS VICELAND starting Monday 12 May at 6pm. The cast of season 16 of this much-loved series includes Tom Gleeson, Patrick Brammall, Camilla Franks, Gina Chick, Matt Nable, Claudia Karvan, Mark Coles Smith and Marc Fennell. We join them on their individual journeys around Australia and overseas in search of previously undiscovered family histories. From the wilds of the Kimberley, across Australia, New Zealand, and to central Europe where the first shots were fired in World War Two, our celebrity detectives dig deep and find profound stories of love, loss and survival. Who Do You Think You Are? season 16 premieres Tuesday 13 May on SBS and SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS starting Tuesday 13 May at 7.30pm. Who Do You Think You Are? Australia This year's Eurovision Song Contest will be taking place in St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland. There's a huge range of songs, styles and staging coming our way during two semi-finals and the electrifying grand final. Go-Jo will be representing Australia with his brilliant and bouncy track "Milkshake Man". This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Australia's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. SBS's exclusive broadcast of Eurovision 2025 is LIVE and in prime time from Wednesday 14 May – Sunday 18 May on SBS and SBS On Demand. Further details of SBS's broadcast will follow soon. Dark Winds follows Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and Bernadette Manuelito of the Navajo Tribal Police solving mysteries and serving justice as their reservation is besieged by a series of increasingly violent crimes in the 1970s. Every mystery uncovers old wounds that run deep, not only in their own lives, but in the collective past of the community they serve. Each step closer to the truth forces the officers to confront their own personal demons, family trauma, and evil forces that threaten the uneasy balance of reservation life. In the third season, Leaphorn and Chee seek justice in the mysterious disappearance of a Navajo boy, while an FBI agent looks into a case linked to Leaphorn's recent past. Meanwhile, Manuelito unearths a conspiracy on the border with far-reaching implications. Dark Winds season 3 premieres Thursday 15 May on SBS On Demand. Finnish Mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko sleepwalks through life until a dodgy diagnosis, an affair and threats from the local mushroom mafia turn his world upside down. In the second season of this Finnish crime drama, loyalties are tested and the mushroom business is at risk of being taken over by Stella Lampinen, the Lingonberry Queen. The Man Who Died season 2 premieres Thursday 22 May on SBS On Demand. Couples Therapy follows world-renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik as she deftly guides couples through real-life therapy sessions. The series brings viewers into the intimate sessions to witness the conflicts – and extraordinary breakthroughs – typically hidden behind closed doors. The second part of season four invites viewers back to the couch, where Dr. Orna Guralnik navigates a thorny brew of recriminations, conflict and painful truths with four new couples. Guralnik delves into the crisis of a deaf man and his hearing partner torn between sexual freedom and commitment, a young couple haunted by trauma and buried secrets, a long-married pair trapped in cycles of bickering and avoidance and a therapist-writer duo locked in a zero-sum battle of sacrifice and grievance that pushes Orna to question her own methods. Couples Therapy season 4, part two premieres Monday 26 May on SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS VICELAND starting Monday 26 May at 10.45pm. Starring Elisabeth Moss, The Veil is a spy thriller that explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, the CIA and French DGSE must work together to avert potential disaster. The Veil season 1 premieres Tuesday 27 May on SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS starting Wednesday 4 June at 9.30pm. Powerful new documentary series, Our Medicine, takes viewers behind the frontline of Australia's strained medical services, shining an important light on First Nations professionals working to achieve better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and communities. Narrated by screen icon Leah Purcell AM, the groundbreaking series offers unique access to First Nations doctors, nurses, paramedics, traditional healers and other medical professionals, following their day-to-day challenges as they support patients on their journey through the system. Our Medicine premieres Thursday 29 May on NITV and SBS On Demand, with weekly double episodes. Episodes air weekly at NITV starting Thursday 29 May at 7.30pm. Share this with family and friends SBS's award winning companion podcast. Join host Yumi Stynes for Seen, a new SBS podcast about cultural creatives who have risen to excellence despite a role-model vacuum.
SBS Australia
22-04-2025
- Sport
- SBS Australia
McAvaney takes the lead for SBS' coverage of the 2025 World Athletics Championships
World Athletics Championships Legendary Australian sports commentator Bruce McAvaney (L) with 17-year-old sprint sensation Gout Gout (R). Source: Getty Watch every session of the 2025 World Athletics Championships live and free across SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand from September 13-21. McAvaney has been the voice of athletics in Australia for more than three decades, and has made some of the most revered calls of the sport in history, going back to the 1991 World Championships 100m final between Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson in Tokyo, and topped by his iconic call of Cathy Freeman's 400m triumph at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. His ability to put viewers in the stadium is legendary, the result of his unparalleled knowledge of the sport, famous attention to detail and unbridled enthusiasm for the performance of the athletes. Over the years he has brought major athletics competition, from Olympic and Commonwealth Games to world and national championships, vividly to life for generations of Australians. He said he was delighted to be guiding Australian audiences through this year's World Athletics Championships (September 13-21), which is regarded as the third-biggest sports event in the world in global reach behind the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. 'It's a privilege and an honour to commentate on the World Championships and I'd like to thank SBS for giving me that opportunity, and the Seven Network for giving me a leave pass,'' McAvaney said. You might have heard me say this before, but this is going to be special. Bruce McAvaney 'We'll be bringing the best in the world to an Australian audience, and highlighting our great Australian athletes. "I've never been more excited by the prospects of the Australian athletics team, not even before the Sydney Olympics. "This team has everything – established champions, great young sprinters and incredible middle distance talent. 'And then there's Gout Gout – a generational talent who has become a global phenomenon in the last year. I can't wait to see how he goes, racing against the big boys of world sprinting for the first time. "He's just at the start of a fantastic journey, which seems destined to go all the way to the summit of his sport. I urge all Australians to get on board now and be part of what will be an amazing ride towards the Brisbane Olympics in 2032." SBS Director of Sport Ken Shipp said: 'SBS has broadcast ten editions of the World Athletics Championships since 2001 and we're thrilled to have a commentator of Bruce's stature join us for this year's historic championships in Tokyo." "We have a well-earned reputation for broadcasting outstanding global events, including the FIFA World Cup and the Tour de France, and we're looking forward to adding the McAvaney magic to our comprehensive coverage of this year's World Championships." Every session of the nine-day World Athletics Championships (14 sessions of arena and road events) will be broadcast live and free across SBS VICELAND , and the World Athletics Championships hub via SBS On Demand , which will also feature daily extended highlights, short clips and full replays of each session. The magnificent 67,000-seat Japan National Stadium, which was built for the pandemic-affected Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, will finally come alive with a full house for athletics, as originally planned before Covid-19 intervened. Such is the interest in the event internationally, that several of the evening sessions have already been sold out. The quality of the likely Australian team for Tokyo, taking on the best from 200-plus nations, will make this event compelling viewing for Australian sports fans. With seven medals (one gold, two silver, four bronze) won in Paris last year, the Australian athletics team is coming off its most successful Olympic Games since Melbourne in 1956, and appears to have found another level this year. The emergence of an exciting generation of sprinters, led by 17-year-old Gout and 21-year-old Lachie Kennedy, who won Australia's first ever 60m medal (silver) at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing last month, missing gold by just 0.01sec, has added an extra layer of intrigue to what was already a highly successful group. They will join the likes of Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy, Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull, world indoor high jump champion Nicola Olyslagers, discus maestro Matt Denny, recent national 800m record-breaker Peter Bol and teenaged middle distance tyros Cameron Myers and Claudia Hollingsworth in a national team that exudes class across the range of disciplines. World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025 Watch now Share this with family and friends The SBS Cycling Podcast is a punchy podcast covering the world of professional cycling, coming to you during the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.
SBS Australia
22-04-2025
- Sport
- SBS Australia
McAvaney takes the lead for SBS' Coverage of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September
The doyen of sports commentators Bruce McAvaney will lead SBS' broadcast of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, which is shaping as an historic event for an exceptional Australian athletics team. McAvaney has been the voice of athletics in Australia for more than three decades, and has made some of the most revered calls of the sport in history, going back to the 1991 World Championships 100m final in Tokyo when Carl Lewis broke the world record, and topped by his iconic call of Cathy Freeman's 400m triumph at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. His ability to put viewers in the stadium is legendary, the result of his unparalleled knowledge of the sport, famous attention to detail and unbridled enthusiasm for the performance of the athletes. Over the years he has brought major athletics competition, from Olympic and Commonwealth Games to world and national championships, vividly to life for generations of Australians. McAvaney said he was delighted to be guiding Australian audiences through this year's World Athletics Championships (September 13-21), which is regarded as the third-biggest sports event in the world in global reach (over one billion) behind the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cupᵀᴹ. 'We'll be bringing the best in the world to an Australian audience, and highlighting our great Australian athletes,'' McAvaney said. 'I've never been more excited by the prospects of the Australian athletics team, not even before the Sydney Olympics. This team has everything – established champions, great young sprinters and incredible middle distance talent. 'And then there's Gout Gout – a generational talent who has become a global phenomenon in the last year. I can't wait to see how he goes, racing against the big names of world sprinting for the first time. He's just at the start of a fantastic journey, which seems destined to go all the way to the summit of his sport. I urge all Australians to get on board now and be part of what will be an amazing ride towards the Brisbane Olympics in 2032.'' 'It's a privilege and an honour to commentate on the World Championships and I'd like to thank SBS for giving me that opportunity, and the Seven Network for their support. You might have heard me say this before, but this is going to be special.'' SBS Director of Sport Ken Shipp said: 'SBS has broadcast ten editions of the World Athletics Championships since 2001 and we're thrilled to have a commentator of Bruce's stature join us for this year's historic championships in Tokyo. We have a well-earned reputation for broadcasting outstanding global events, including the FIFA World Cupᵀᴹ and the Tour de France, and we're looking forward to adding the McAvaney magic to our comprehensive coverage of this year's World Championships.'' Every session of the nine-day World Athletics Championships (14 sessions of arena and road events) will be broadcast live and free across SBS VICELAND, and the World Athletics Championships Hub via SBS On Demand, which will also feature daily extended highlights, short clips and full replays of each session. There will also be extensive coverage across SBS' social media platforms. The magnificent 67,000-seat Japan National Stadium, which was built for the pandemic-affected Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, will finally come alive with a full house for athletics, as originally planned before Covid-19 intervened. Such is the interest in the event internationally, that several of the evening sessions have already sold out. The quality of the likely Australian team for Tokyo, taking on the best from 200-plus nations, will make this event compelling viewing for Australian sports fans. With seven medals (one gold, two silver, four bronze) won in Paris last year, the Australian athletics team is coming off its most successful Olympic Games since Melbourne in 1956, and appears to have found another level this year. The emergence of an exciting generation of sprinters, led by 17-year-old Gout and 21-year-old Lachie Kennedy, who won Australia's first ever 60m medal (silver) at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing last month, missing gold by just 0.01sec, has added an extra layer of intrigue to what was already a highly successful group. They will join the likes of Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy, Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull, world indoor high jump champion Nicola Olyslagers, discus maestro Matt Denny, recent national 800m record-breaker Peter Bol and teenaged middle distance tyros Cameron Myers and Claudia Hollingsworth in a national team that exudes class across the range of disciplines. See the full schedule for SBS' broadcast of the World Athletics Championships here: For a pdf copy of this media release, click here.
