What to watch on SBS On Demand – quick links
SBS On Demand: new this week
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.
The Americans Seasons 1-6 – 1 May
Series. The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington DC during the Reagan administration. The arranged marriage of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but as the pressures and demands of the job grow heavier, the personal toll becomes almost too exhausting to bear.
Alongside real-life couple Rhys and Russell, the cast includes Margo Martindale, Noah Emmerich and Richard Thomas. Recurring cast members include Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Julia Garner (Ozark) and Miriam Shor (Pluribus, Younger).
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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.
Chernobyl: Inside The Meltdown – 22 April
Four-part series. The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear accident in history, releasing 400 times more radiation into the atmosphere than the Hiroshima bomb. In the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of this catastrophic event, this series tells the full story – from reactor meltdown – to the present-day war in Ukraine, that turned a nuclear exclusion zone into a war zone.
Australia’s Greek Cafés & Milk Bars: Shaken & Stirred – 20 April
Before the golden arches, before the coffee chains, before Australia embraced the world on a plate, there was the Greek café and milk bar.
These shops were scattered across every suburb and country town and didn’t just serve milkshakes and mixed grills. They revolutionised what Australians ate, where they gathered and how they understood community.
Australia’s Greek Cafés & Milk Bars tells the remarkable story of migrants who left Greece to escape war and poverty in search of a better life, arriving in Australia with little more than determination and a willingness to work all hours.
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.
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.
