SBS On Demand: best new shows streaming this October 2026

★ Must Watch

The Jury: Skeleton in the Garden

SBS Original The Jury returns with a second real Australian manslaughter trial, restaged with professional actors recreating the proceedings from the original court transcripts. This season covers the case of a woman whose remains were discovered buried in the defendant’s former backyard a decade after she vanished. Episodes 1 to 4 stream from Monday 5 October; the final episode and verdict reveal arrive on Tuesday 13 October.

Monday 5 October: Episodes 1 to 4. 13 October: Verdict, season final.

The Lowdown

1 October

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Crime drama

When Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson) dies in a suspicious suicide immediately after the publication of a exposé by citizen journalist Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke), Lee realises he has stumbled onto something bigger. Created by Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs). All eight episodes stream from 1 October.

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Tim Blake Nelson

70 Up

The documentary series that began with 7 Up in 1964 reaches its final chapter. Every seven years since, the cameras have returned to the same 14 people, following them from childhood through adolescence, careers, marriage, divorce, parenting and bereavement. Now pensioners and retirees, the participants look back on their lives and what became of their hopes. 7 Up through to 63 Up also premiere on SBS On Demand from 1 October.

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

A struggling small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who is awaiting the train that will take him to court in Yuma. A battle of wills follows as the outlaw works to unsettle the rancher.

Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman

The Holy Mountain (1973)

In a corrupt, greed-driven world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic figure and seven materialistic characters on a journey to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders

Inside (2024)

When a soon to be paroled inmate manipulates a guilt-ridden juvenile into murdering Australia’s most despised criminal, a transformative paternal love triangle forms.

Starring: Guy Pearce, Cosmo Jarvis, Vincent Miller

Talk to Me (2022)

A group of friends discover they can conjure spirits using an embalmed hand. Hooked on the thrill, they keep going until one of them takes it too far and unleashes supernatural forces.

Starring: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Ari McCarthy