Series coming to SBS On Demand in August:
- Marcella, seasons 1-3
- The Shift, season 2
- Leonardo da Vinci
- La Unidad, seasons 2-3
- Little Fires Everywhere
- La Vuelta a España Hub
- Adam Richman Eats Football
- Safe Harbor
- Fatal Crossing
Marcella - seasons 1-3
Marcella is a new crime drama from internationally renowned screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge).
Set in contemporary London and starring Anna Friel, Marcella centers on the psychological struggles of a Metropolitan police officer at crisis point in her personal life, driven by rejection and intuition.
Returning to the Met’s Murder Squad after a 12-year career break, Marcella is a detective in her late 30s who gave up her fast-tracked role to marry and devote her life to starting a family. With the abrupt end to her marriage to the love of her life and isolated from her children at boarding school, Marcella returns to work – her sense of self shattered.
She is immediately assigned to one of her old cases that she first worked on in 2003. A spate of recent killings has occurred, all carrying the same hallmarks as those unsolved murders committed over a decade ago. Has the killer re-appeared or is this a copycat murderer? How will Marcella cope with returning to duty when her own temperament is so fragile and vulnerable? Will throwing herself into her work provide the answers she’s seeking or lead her dangerously into territory she must avoid at all costs?
Marcella S1-3 premieres Tuesday 5 August on SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS VICELAND starting Saturday 9 August at 10.30pm.
Stream free On Demand
Marcella
series • Crime drama
MA15+
series • Crime drama
MA15+
The Shift - season 2
The Shift is a TV series about the bustling goings on in a fictional Copenhagen area Hospital. The first season was set in a maternity ward, with a focus on head of department Ella (Sofie Gråbøl), and her daily battle to create the best possible conditions for both the expectant mothers and for her colleagues.
Season 2 will take place in a paediatric ward, and begins two years on from the events of the previous season. This time the focus is upon two main characters: the chief physician, Linda and the psychologist, Lasse. The plot unfolds among the staff and is primarily about their daily work in the paediatric ward, as well as their relationships with each other and their personal challenges.
In each episode, there are self-contained stories originating from the patients who are admitted to the ward.
The Shift season 2 premieres Thursday 7 August on SBS On Demand.
The Shift season 1 is now streaming.
Stream free On Demand
The Shift
series • drama • Danish
MA15+
series • drama • Danish
MA15+
Leonardo da Vinci
A Ken Burns documentary series
A fifteenth-century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci left behind artistic works of staggering beauty as well as detailed anatomical sketches, studies of geology, gravity and water, and designs for machines of war and flying contraptions that today are marvelled at for their ingenuity and foresight.
From his birth out of wedlock to a notary and a peasant woman and apprenticeship to a distinguished Florentine craftsman, to his days as a military architect, cartographer, painter and muralist for hire, Leonardo da Vinci tells the story of one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds, a singular visionary whose Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Vitruvian Man are among the most celebrated works of all time.
Leonardo da Vinci premieres Saturday 9 August on SBS and SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS starting Saturday 9 August at 8.20pm.
Stream free On Demand
Leonardo da Vinci
series • documentary
M
series • documentary
M
La Unidad - seasons 2-3
The Spanish police arrest the world's most wanted terrorist during a routine operation, and Spain is caught in the crosshairs.
Carla is the head of the police investigation unit that struggles at all times to keep terrorism in check. When one of the police operations ends with the coincidental arrest of Al Salah Garheeb, the most wanted Jihadist leader in the world, she will only be pleased for a few hours. As a result of his capture, Spain is to become the target of the threats made by Al Salah’s followers; those of the religious leader’s own son as well as those of the thousands of supporters who are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to avenge his arrest and fall.
La Unidad S2-3 premieres Thursday 14 August on SBS On Demand.
La Unidad season 1 is now streaming on SBS On Demand.
Stream free On Demand
La Unidad
series • adventure • European Spanish
MA15+
series • adventure • European Spanish
MA15+
Little Fires Everywhere
Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
The cast includes Reese Witherspoon (Elena Richardson), Kerry Washington (Mia Warren), Joshua Jackson (Bill Richardson), Rosemarie DeWitt (Linda McCullough), Jade Pettyjohn (Lexie Richardson), Jordan Elsass (Trip Richardson), Gavin Lewis (Moody Richardson), Megan Stott (Izzy Richardson), Lexi Underwood (Pearl Warren), and Huang Lu (Bebe).
The series is produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street and ABC Signature Studios, a part of Disney Television Studios. Author Celeste Ng serves as producer.
Little Fires Everywhere premieres Saturday 16 August on SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS VICELAND starting Saturday 16 August at 8.30pm.
Stream free On Demand
Little Fires Everywhere
series • drama
M
series • drama
M
La Vuelta a España Hub
Get in gear for this year's Vuelta a España (La Vuelta), Spain's annual multi-stage bicycle race, with a hub filled with replays, highlights and live action.
2025's race will be made up of 21 stages including 5 mountain stages and 3 hilly stages with high-altitude finales. It will cover a total distance of 3151 kilometres from Turin, Italy to Madrid, Spain.
This year's La Vuelta a España commences on Saturday 23 August, finishing up on Sunday 14 September.
Adam Richman Eats Football
Globally famous food explorer, Adam Richman, is back in Britain. He’s embarking on another unique food tour of Britain, this time combining two of his biggest passions: food and football.
Using the match as his menu, he’s exploring the unique food cultures around some of the biggest football clubs in the country – from London to Liverpool, Brighton to Glasgow and beyond. The series features the best of classic fan-favourite footy scran like pies and burgers, but also more elevated fine dining now available in and around the country’s top stadiums.
Adam meets brilliant chefs, fans and food makers all over the country, each with a connection to the featured club as he delves into the history, ingredients, and process of creating delicious food for matchdays, or any other day of the week.
Adam Richman Eats Football premieres Wednesday 20 August on SBS Food and SBS On Demand. Episodes air weekly at SBS Food starting Wednesday 20 August at 9pm.
Safe Harbor
Gifted hacker Tobias and his ambitious best friend Marco, are intent on cracking into the tech billionaires club. They are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into the chaos of organized crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob. Leading the family’s operations in Holland are Sloane and her brother Farrell, who enlist their services to hack into the security system of Rotterdam harbor — Europe’s largest shipping port — to secure the undetected deliveries of drug shipments.
Safe Harbor premieres Thursday 21 August on SBS On Demand.
Fatal Crossing
Nora Sand is a renowned journalist working as a correspondent for a Danish newspaper in London. When she’s suspended due to an accusation for having had an intimate relationship with one of her sources in a big case, Nora travels home to live with her father.
She has sworn to lie low until the scandal has cooled off, but when she’s given a tip about an old missing persons case, she can’t sit still any longer. Two girls disappeared from the ferry to England in the mid-80s. Since then, no one has seen them – until someone slips an envelope with old photos into Nora's mail box.
Fatal Crossing season 1 premieres Thursday 28 August on SBS On Demand.
