Top new series coming to SBS On Demand in February 2024

Leap into great drama series, fresh comedies, and engrossing series. All coming to SBS On Demand in February.

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Dopesick

Dopesick examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series takes viewers to the epicentre of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.

Defying all the odds, heroes will emerge in an intense and thrilling ride to take down the craven corporate forces behinds this national crisis and their allies. The limited series is inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.

Starring Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Phillipa Soo, Kaitlyn Dever, Will Poulter and Peter Sarsgaard.

All eight episodes of Dopesick will be available on SBS On Demand from Thursday, 8 February.

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Eddie's Li'l Homies

Inspired by former AFL star Eddie Betts’ popular book series, Eddie’s Lil’ Homies is an animated children’s comedy series that follows eight-year-old Eddie and his two best friends Lottie and Tal as they navigate the complex and often fantastical waters of childhood.

Their friends are their family, and the playground is their universe, one where anything and everything is possible, where imaginary friends can be real, games of rock paper scissors can take on stupendous importance and kindness, empathy and a good rap can help put anything right.

Eddie's Li'l Homies premieres on NITV and SBS On Demand 16 February.

Catch Me A Killer

Charlotte Hope (Game of Thrones) portrays former journalist turned-psychologist Micki Pistorius, South Africa's first serial killer profiler, in this harrowing true story based on the acclaimed novel.

Set in Mitchell's Plain, 1994, a young man goes missing, and the police approach psychologist Dr Micki Pistorius to help with the case as their first forensic profiler. Eager to escape her failing marriage, Micki pushes aside her doubts and accepts the role, only to find herself out of her depth, and competing against time: either she finds the killer before they take another life, or they find her first.

All 11 episodes of Catch Me A Killer will be available on SBS On Demand from 22 February.

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Crime drama
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Crime drama
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Good Ship Murder

Anchors aweigh! A former cop-turned-cabaret singer Jack (Shayne Ward) and first officer Kate (Catherine Tyldesley) team up to solve a raft of murders on board a Mediterranean-based cruise liner. Truly, what more do you need to know about this show? We're in, hook, line and sinker.

Season 1 of The Good Ship Murder begins 2 February on SBS and SBS On Demand, new episodes land weekly.

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Estonia

A dramatisation of the real-life disaster of the car ferry MS Estonia in the autumn of 1994, and the subsequent accident investigation. The fictional series is based on real events and explores through the personal stories of the victims, survivors, loved ones, and investigators how it was possible that 852 people lost their lives – and no one could be held accountable.

Produced by Fisher King Oy, created by Miikko Oikkonen (Bordertown, Helsinki Syndrome) and directed by Måns Månsson (Chernobyl, Snabba Cash) and Juuso Syrjä (Bordertown).

All episodes of Estonia will be available in Swedish and Finnish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand from 15 February.

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Classified

Emile and Rachel work for the Canadian Secret Service (CSS); they are also partners and the parents of two young girls. When an investigation on a shooting near the US embassy leads the CSS to think that the CIA infiltrated a mole in their ranks, Emile is ordered against his will to investigate the identity of the mole -- and Rachel is the prime suspect.

Classified is a twisting, high-stakes look at the world of intelligence, counterterrorism, and counterespionage in which two lovers are torn apart by loyalty and family.

Classified S 1-2 will be available in French Canadian with English subtitles on SBS On Demand from 1 February.

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Bullshit

Now that we have your attention, we think you'll love this unconventional coming-of-age drama based on the bestselling book by Camilla Stockmann and Janus Køster-Rasmussen.

Young couple Pia and Henning are drawn into Copenhagen’s biker subculture looking for escape and belonging, but their dream rapidly turns into a nightmare when a biker gang war erupts. Amidst an explosion of violence, can they, and their love, survive?

All six episodes of Bullshit will be available in Danish with English subtitles on SBS On Demand Thursday 1 February.

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Those Who Stayed

A unique drama anthology series inspired by true events in Kyiv after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. At the start of this brutal war, every second person left Kyiv. Yet every second person remained. These are their stories – variously moving, funny, sad, stark, unsettling, and uplifting.

Amongst the dramatic and sometimes humorous stories are Olga, her two kids and her husband, forced to live in one room with her ex-husband; Klaus, a young German doctor who travels to Ukraine to rescue a friend, only to find out she has no intention of leaving, and Verka Serduchka, a famous singer and drag act who stays put, without his usual entourage, and creates daily online posts that become a symbol of Kyiv’s resistance and faith in future triumph.

Those Who Stayed will premiere on SBS and SBS On Demand from 10.30pm 24 February, in Ukrainian with English Subtitles.

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Triple Oh!

Triple Oh! is a dark comedy-drama based on true events starring Brooke Satchwell and Tahlee Fereday, following the lives saved and lost by ambulance paramedics Tayls (Satchwell) and Cate (Fereday).

With conflicting personalities and a policy of having sex whenever a patient dies, the pair work together to save patients in absurd medical emergencies, while navigating their complicated relationship. Each episode opens with a new patient, while the tension between the two paramedics threatens to get in the way of saving lives.

The five-part Triple Oh! will be available on SBS On Demand from 8 February.

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Published 29 January 2024 2:52pm
Updated 28 February 2024 9:27am
Source: SBS

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