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Top new series coming to SBS On Demand in October 2024

Scandal erupts and is exploited in 'The Trigger'. A crime author is poisoned in 'Sandhamn Murders'. The story of a legend is told in 'So Long, Marianne'. Here are all the shows coming to SBS On Demand in October.

The Trigger, Sandhamn Murders, The Gone, So Long Marianne.

(L-R): 'The Trigger', 'Sandhamn Murders', 'The Gone', 'So Long, Marianne'.

The Old Man - season 1

Jeff Bridges stars as Dan Chase in 'The Old Man'.
The Old Man Episode 3. Pictured:Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase. CR: Prashant Gupta/FX.
Jeff Bridges stars as retired CIA agent Dan Chase in this Emmy-nominated action thriller. Living off the grid after absconding from the CIA, Chase learns that his past his coming to find him. An assassin is sent to kill him, an FBI agent is tasked with hunting him down and eventually, a special ops contractor is sent to pursue him. What the authorities don't know is just how slippery this "old man" truly is.

The Old Man season 1 premieres Tuesday 1 October on SBS and SBS On Demand.

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The Old Man

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drama
MA15+
series • 
drama
MA15+

Four Years Later - SBS Original

Akshay Ajit Singh as Yash and Shahana Goswami as Sridevi in Four Years Later.
Akshay Ajit Singh as Yash and Shahana Goswami as Sridevi in Four Years Later. Credit: MEGHA CHHATTANI
Four Years Later explores the love story of Sridevi and Yash, who have to endure four years apart right after their wedding when Yash lands a medical traineeship in Australia. The series follows the couple's turbulent time apart and reconnection – two timelines, two worlds, told through dual perspectives. The story explores themes of the changing nature of love, intimacy and belonging as you change within yourself and asks what it takes to find your way back to someone you have deeply loved after so long apart.

SBS Original Four Years Later premieres on Wednesday 2 October on SBS On Demand.

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Four Years Later

series • 
drama • 
Hindi
M
series • 
drama • 
Hindi
M

The Trigger - season 1

The Trigger/LA FIEVRE épisode 5
Ana Girardot (Marie Kinsky) in The Trigger episode 5. Credit: Thibault Grabherr
This tense French drama fuses racial tensions and political exploitation, exploring unique themes using the world of football. The series begins with a scandal that erupts when star player Fodé Thiam violently headbutts his coach and uses a slur against him, inciting accusations of racism and angry demands to exclude him from the team. The club calls for Sam, a brilliant but emotionally unstable PR fixer, to diffuse the crisis and save the team's future. Sam’s journey takes a personal turn when she discovers that her former best friend is now a far-right leader working to exploit this situation for political gain. As the case unfolds, it tears painful rifts in French society and sparks the biggest fight of Sam’s career, pitting her against her most feared adversary.

The Trigger season 1 premieres on Thursday 3 October on SBS On Demand.

The Sandhamn Murders - season 10

The Sandhamn Murders 20 - Madeleine.
Nicolai Cleve Broch as Alexander and Alexandra Rapaport as Nora in The Sandhamn Murders.
Viveca Sten's popular mystery novels come to life in this hit Nordic crime drama that fuses the beauty of the Swedish archipelago with the gritty darkness of murder and deception. In season 10 of the popular series, a woman has been murdered in her bed at the same rehab clinic Alexander is staying at, a man has been found beaten outside of his own home and a celebrated crime author is poisoned. Who is behind this string of crimes, and will Nora be able to come to terms with the fact that one of the murderers has a troubling connection to her?

The Sandhamn Murders season 10 premieres on Thursday 10 October on SBS On Demand.

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Sandhamn Murders

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Crime drama • 
Swedish
MA15+
series • 
Crime drama • 
Swedish
MA15+

So Long, Marianne - season 1

Alex Wolff as Leonard Cohen and Thea Sofie Loch Næss as Marianne Ihlen in 'So Long, Marianne'.
Alex Wolff as Leonard Cohen and Thea Sofie Loch Næss as Marianne Ihlen in 'So Long, Marianne'. Credit: nikos nikolopoulos
So Long, Marianne tells the legendary love story between Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen and an extraordinary Norwegian woman, Marianne Ihlen. It’s an intimate tale of two young people falling in love during a period of their life when they are trying to figure out who they are and their place in the world, while one is becoming one of the most famous singers of all time. Their story crosses the world, travelling from the Greek Island of Hydra to New York, Montreal and Oslo, with the majority of the series set on picturesque Hydra, where they lived during the 1960s. There, they joined a bohemian group of writers, artists, poets, and outcasts who were exploring a new world of free love, drugs, and artistic freedom, but also experiencing the rivalries and jealousy that accompanied their intense, interwoven lives.

So Long, Marianne season 1 premieres on Saturday 19 October on SBS On Demand.

Red Flag: Music's Failed Revolution - SBS Original

Marc Fennell in 'Red Flag: Music's Failed Revolution'
Marc Fennell in 'Red Flag: Music's Failed Revolution'
It’s the new millennium and music is facing an existential threat: illegal piracy. In Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution Walkley Award-winning journalist Marc Fennell (
The Kingdom
,
Framed
,
The Mission
) uncovers the bizarre story of the Aussie start up, Guvera, that promised to revolutionise music forever, but instead vanished in a $180 million mystery.

SBS Original Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution premieres on Tuesday 15 October at 8:35pm on SBS with both episodes available to stream free on SBS On Demand. The second and final episode airs on Tuesday 22 October at 8:35pm on SBS.

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Red Flag: Music's Failed Revolution

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bus./financial
M
series • 
bus./financial
M

The King - seasons 1 and 2

Luca Zingaretti in The King season 2
Luca Zingaretti in The King season 2. Credit: Noemi Ardesi
San Michele is a frontier prison where director (or king) Bruno Testori (Luca Zingaretti) applies his personal idea of justice. Within these walls the laws of the state cease to exist — he is the law. Ruthless when required, merciful when needed, Bruno identifies with his inmates and their lives off the rails, because like them, he too has been broken by life — to the point of killing. And two murders, first of the commander of the prison officers, his best friend, then of his main ally among the inmates, risk undermining his rule and bringing to the surface the cancer lurking in the recesses of his kingdom.

The King season 1 and 2 premieres on Thursday 24 October on SBS On Demand.

The Gone - season 1

The Gone season 1 episode 4.
The Gone season 1 episode 4. Credit: Geoffrey Short / Kotare Productions
This taught, mystery drama is a deftly crafted, character-driven series that follows Dublin-based Theo Richter, an Irish Special Branch detective, as he heads to New Zealand to help search for two young Irish tourists who have vanished without a trace. They’ve gone missing from Mount Affinity, a picturesque rural town with a dark history of disappearance and death that has recently become home to supposedly altruistic tech conglomerate Houkura – dividing the local population. This will be Richter’s last case as he’s just announced his early retirement, surprising colleagues. He’s teamed with Diana Huia, a recently promoted young detective who returns to her hometown to work the case. Seemingly worlds apart, but both hiding secrets, Theo and Diana must find a way of gaining local trust, differentiating facts from fiction and stopping all-out war to find the young Irish couple before the clock runs out.

The Gone season 1 premieres on Thursday 31 October on SBS On Demand.

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What's leaving SBS On Demand in October 2024

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Published 27 September 2024 9:00am
Updated 15 October 2024 12:55pm
By SBS Staff Writer
Source: SBS

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