New to SBS On Demand in April – quick links
SBS On Demand: new in April
Riot Women – 2 April
Series. SBS has the exclusive Australian premiere of smash-hit UK drama series Riot Women, created by Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley). Riot Women is about a group of women who form a punk rock band – just for fun, just to enter a local talent contest, just to raise money for charity – but who discover in the course of rehearsing an ABBA song (badly) that they have a voice of their own.
John Wick Trilogy – 4 April
Film series. John Wick is a former hitman grieving the loss of his true love. When his home is broken into, robbed, and his dog killed, he is forced to return to action to exact revenge.
Mozart/Mozart – 9 April
Series. Bursting with opulence, modern beats and unforgettable images, this tale of ambition and deception gives voice to Mozart’s overlooked sister (Havana Joy Josephine Braun). From the producers of the international hit Sisi comes another iconic female figure for a global audience.
Fifteen years have passed since Maria Anna Mozart’s career as a ‘Wunderkind’ alongside her brother Amadeus (Eren M Güvercin) came to an end. None other than Maria Theresa – mother of Marie Antoinette – banished the young woman from the stage. Now Maria Anna works from behind the scenes, while her brother claims the spotlight for himself.
The Audacity – 15 April
Series. Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimised in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. Through biting satire and wit, The Audacity confronts reality, privacy and the delusions fuelling our ever-changing world.
Dark Winds Season 4 – 16 April
Series. Dark Winds follows Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police 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 two men to confront their own personal demons, family trauma and evil forces that threaten the uneasy balance of reservation life.
Screw Season 2 – 23 April
Series. The hit prison series Screw returns, with Nina Sosanya once again leading the cast as Leigh Henry, senior prison officer in charge of C Wing at Long Marsh Prison. After the tragic events of the Season 1 finale, our team of embattled prison officers are determined to make a fresh start. But as those behind the cell doors of C Wing know only too well, moving on isn’t always simple.
Rick Stein’s Australia – 30 April
Series. In his debut Australian series, celebrated chef Rick Stein embarks on a deeply personal food journey across his second home, Australia. Across six episodes, Rick takes viewers on an immersive trip that retraces his life-changing adventures as a young nineteen-year-old.
From stunning Sydney harbour to remote outback towns, Rick revisits some of the places in New South Wales that first shaped him – and explores how Australia and its food is changing, and what makes it so unique.
Empathy – 30 April
Series. An original series by actor and screenwriter Florence Longpré, Empathy is a unique, sensitive, and quirky view of the patients and medical staff of a secure psychiatric institute.
Psychiatrist Suzanne (Florence Longpré) starts work at Mont-Royal Institute, where she meets Mortimer (Thomas Ngijol), an intriguing interventionist, alongside fascinating patients. Her patients have committed all kinds of crimes but Suzanne comes to them with a deep empathy that stems from her own traumatic past.
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Homebodies – 28 March
Series. A world premiere, this heartfelt new Australian drama stars Claudia Karvan, Luke Wiltshire, Jazi Dall, and Roxie Mohebbi.
When trans man Darcy reluctantly returns to his regional hometown to care for his estranged mother, Nora, he’s shocked to discover that she has secretly been living with Dee – the ghost of his pretransition self – who manifested two years earlier.
