Top new series in August 2023

With SBS Originals taking us all around the land, an array of international series and food and travel shows galore, August delivers in spades.

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(L–R) ‘Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro’, ‘Wolf’, ‘Then You Run’, ‘Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico’. Credit: SBS On Demand

Breaking Point – season 1

Actors Lea Zoë Voss and Paul Wollin standing next to each other in a mall in German series Breaking Point. Paul has a scar under his left eye.
Saschi (Lea Zoë Voss) and Mario (Paul Wollin) in ‘Breaking Point’. Credit: Petro Domenigg/FILMSTILLS.AT KG
From Germany comes this six-part thriller in which five people in a shopping mall are thrown together at a crucial and dangerous moment. It follows the fate of each individual who is under immense stress in their life – security guard Georg’s wife has been blinded; Mira’s job is under threat due to her affair with the boss; Sarah’s doctor’s surgery is failing and she’s self-medicating to cope; convicted juvenile offender Lorenz waits tables while grappling with his past. But only one of them will reach breaking point.

Breaking Point premieres exclusively in Australia
at SBS On Demand
on Thursday 3 August.
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Adam and Poh’s Great Australian Bites – season 1

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Poh Ling Yeow and Adam Liaw in ‘Adam and Poh’s Great Australian Bites’. Credit: SBS
Road tripping around Australia, Adam Liaw and Poh Ling Yeow reunite to pin down our national dish. Meat pies or lamingtons? How about banh mi or schnitzels or spaghetti Bolognese? From Uluru to Darwin, Ballarat to Bass Strait, Adam and Poh sample offerings from bakeries, pubs, Lazy Susans and more to uncover our national palate. Tip: have snacks ready.

Adam and Poh’s Great Australian Bites premieres at 8pm on SBS Food on Tuesday 8 August, airing weekly. Catch encore screenings on Sundays at 5.30pm. You can also stream episodes each week
at SBS On Demand
from Tuesday 8 August.
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Secrets of the Superagers – season 1

Michael Mosley with a man he meets in his show Secrets of the Superagers
Jim Ryan with Dr Michael Mosley in ‘Secrets of the Superagers’. Credit: Lydia Bird/BBC Studios
Keen to live a long and healthy life? Join Michael Mosley as he meets some of the world’s most extraordinary ‘superagers’, from China to Italy. Everyone he meets has a unique outlook on life, eats different foods and lives radically different lives. What do they have in common? What’s their secret? This six-part scientific series shares all the secrets they divulge to Michael.

Secrets of the Superagers premieres exclusively in Australia on SBS, episodes also air weekly from Wednesday 9 August at 7.30pm. You can also stream episodes each week
at SBS On Demand
.
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Secrets of the Superagers - season 1 episode 1


Shambles – season 1

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Florence Foresti (behind the wheel) with her friends, Manue (Laëtitia Vercken), Béatrice (Béatrice Facquer) and Julia (Anouk Féral), in ‘Shambles’. Credit: Comme Une Grande/Iconoclast
Real-life comedian and artist Florence Foresti is no stranger to the glamorous world that opens up when one is thusly famous in France. Here, she takes her experience in performing one-woman shows to the next level. Shambles is a dramatised version of her life as both public figure and mother, lover and friend. It’s a shambolic and playful ride, in which Foresti shines like the star she is. Her dog gets a voice, and it’s fabulous, as are the song and dance numbers that cap off each episode. Also look for the ever excellent Vincent Cassel.

Shambles premieres exclusively in Australia
at SBS On Demand
on Thursday 10 August.
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Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro

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‘Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro’. Credit: Mint Pictures
The effervescent Julia Zemiro takes us on ten of Australia’s epic walks in this beautiful and entertaining series. Along the way, Julia introduces us to experts and locals, First Australians and new Australians, as they share surprising and inspiring stories about our multicultural country.

Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro premieres exclusively in Australia on SBS, episodes also air weekly from Thursday 10 August at 7.30pm. You can also stream episodes each week
at SBS On Demand
.
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DNA – season 2

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Anders W. Berthelsen as Rolf Larsen and Olivia Joof Lewerissa as Neel are back for season 2 of ‘DNA’. Credit: Klara Cvrckova
We welcome the return of Danish thriller DNA from the co-creator of The Killing. Bringing an international flavour, the discovery of dead Vietnamese nationals hands investigator Rolf Larsen (Anders W. Berthelsen) his brief. He ends up embroiled in the billion-dollar human trafficking underworld, masterminded by criminal networks that span the globe.

Season 2 of DNA premieres exclusively in Australia
at SBS On Demand
on Thursday 10 August. Catch-up on season 1 now.
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Wolf – season 1

Actor Ukweli Roach stands among a riotous crowd looking stressed in UK series Wolf
Ukweli Roach is DI Jack Caffery in ‘Wolf’. Credit: Simon Ridgway/BBC/Hartswood Films Ltd
DI Jack Caffery is on a mission to track down the killer of his ten-year-old brother in the 1990s. Meanwhile, holed up in their rural pile are the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family who’ve become the victims of a cruel psychopath. When the two narratives collide, we embark on a nail-biting race against time. This thrilling UK series is based on the acclaimed novels by Mo Hayder, with Ukweli Roach (Blindspot) as Caffery. Juliet Stevenson also stars.

Wolf premieres exclusively in Australia
at SBS On Demand
on Wednesday 16 August. Episodes also air weekly on SBS from Wednesday 16 August at 9.30pm, with an encore screening of episode 1 Thursday 17 August at 10:20PM.

Syndrome E – season 1

French actors Vincent Elbaz and Jennifer Decker stand side by side, posing for their crime show Syndrome E
Vincent Elbaz as Franck Sharko and Jennifer Decker as Lucie Henebelle in ‘Syndrome E’. Credit: Caroline Dubois/TF1
We love a touch of sci-fi mixed with our crime dramas, and this six-part French offering delivers in full. Adapted from the international bestseller of the same name by Franck Thilliez by
Spiral
writer Mathieu Missoffe, Syndrome E pairs together brooding loner, cop Franck Sharko (Vincent Elbaz) and lieutenant Lucie Henebelle (Jennifer Decker), hellbent on destroying evil. Their investigations of top-secret scientific experiments and programs lead them down some pretty hairy rabbit holes, and we’re here for it all.

Syndrome E premieres exclusively in Australia at SBS On Demand from Thursday 24 August.

Forest of the Missing – season 1

Actor Grégory Fitoussi stands in the snow looking directly at the camera in his show Forest of the Missing
Grégory Fitoussi as Erik Maes in ‘Forest of the Missing’. Credit: Alessandro Clemenza
This French crime drama is set near the border with Germany in a shared military base in the Black Forest. There, the bodies of twelve men – both French and German – are discovered. Some of the murders date back decades. Police inspector Erik Maes gets to work alongside Captain Franz Agerland. But Judge Camille Hartmann insists on being involved – she believes a car accident which affected her memory links her to the case. But there is more to be uncovered, and not just about who killed all those men.

Forest of the Missing premieres exclusively in Australia at SBS On Demand from Thursday 24 August.

Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico – season 1

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‘Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico’. Credit: Ramona Rosales
Returning to the land of her ancestors, actor Eva Longoria explores the food of Mexico over six mouth-watering episodes. She delves into how the country’s rich culture, landscape and turbulent history have contributed to shaping Mexico’s cuisine, beloved all around the world.

Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico premieres in Australia on SBS from Thursday 24 August at 8.30pm. Episodes also air weekly and are available to stream at SBS On Demand the same time as broadcast.

Creamerie – season 2

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JJ Fong as Jaime, Perlina Lau as Pip and Jay Ryan as Bobby are back for season 2 of ‘Creamerie’. Credit: Matt Klitscher
We are thrilled New Zealand comedy Creamerie is back. The six-part sitcom with a dystopian twist picks up directly from season 1’s cliffhanger ending. Alex, Jamie, Pip and the lone male in town, Bobby, are on the run in one epic road trip, determined to bring wellness cult leader Lane to justice and uncover the truth about the MANdemic. Bring it on!

Season 2 of Creamerie premieres
at SBS On Demand
on Monday 28 August. Episodes also air weekly on SBS VICELAND from Monday 28 August. Catch-up on season 1 now.
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Divided We Stand – season 1

Winning Germany’s TV Academy awards in 2022 for the performances of its
two leads
, this six-part German crime drama is based on true events. Set in early 1990s Berlin, we follow the police officers who operated under ZERV, a special investigations unit dedicated to solving crimes committed in Communist-era days, but especially we focus on Peter Simon (Fabian Hinrichs) and Karo Schubert (Nadja Uhl). Hardly willing to work together, Simon and Schubert’s prickly relationship adds a great deal of spice.

Divided We Stand premieres exclusively in Australia at SBS On Demand from Thursday 31 August.

Then You Run – season 1

Four young women (Yasmin Monet Prince, Leah McNamara, Vivian Oparah and Isidora Fairhurst) stand side by side laughing in UK series Then You Run
Ruth (Yasmin Monet Prince), Tara (Leah McNamara), Stink (Vivian Oparah) and Nessi (Isidora Fairhurst) in ‘Then You Run’. Credit: Bernd Spauke
When London teenager Tara (Leah McNamara) is sent to Rotterdam to live with her estranged father, she brings her three closest mates with her for a mini-break. But when she discovers Dad’s real business and he shows up dead, the girls flee – with bags of heroin – across Europe. For those after them, the message is clear: “Get the girls, get the gear, don’t be merciful.” This darkly comic high-energy eight-parter is adapted from
Zoran Drvenkar’s novel You
, an “audacious and unpredictable combination of pulp, pluck and revenge thriller”. Prepare for a wild ride.

Then You Run premieres exclusively in Australia at SBS On Demand from Thursday 31 August.


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Published 28 July 2023 9:26am
Updated 15 August 2023 9:31am
By SBS Staff Writer
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