Top new series coming to SBS On Demand in December 2023

The festive season starts early this year! Get set to unwrap brand new dramas, returning favourites, and fascinating factual series.

Alone: The Skills Challenge

Alone: The Skills Challenge pits 3 former Alone participants head-to-head to complete incredible bushcraft builds using only basic tools and the natural resources around them. Their goal: to prove who has the ingenuity, experience and wilderness skills to craft the most unbelievable survival build. From elevated shelters to hand-crafted ovens to watercraft, participants will give their all to amaze former Alone participants who will judge the builds. Just like Alone, challengers will self-document their experience but this time on their home terrain.

Stream the entire series free at SBS On Demand on 5 December, or tune in for double episodes weekly on Tuesdays from 5 December at 9:25pm on SBS Viceland.

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Alone: The Skills Challenge

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adventure

PG

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adventure

PG

Gods of Tennis - Season 1

Gods of Tennis,(l-r) Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Billie Jean King, Martina Navaratilova,Gods of tennis,Mindhouse,Mindhouse Credit: Mindhouse/BBC/Mindhouse

Rebels, rockstars, revolutionaries. On court, they were legends. Off court, they challenged the world: Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, King, Navratilova, Evert.

Gods of Tennis celebrates the golden era of tennis in the 1970s and 80s; a time when cultural changes in the modern world descended on the most famous tennis tournament in the world - Wimbledon. Telling the inside story of the legendary players who transformed the game, the series features a cast of sporting geniuses, giving first-hand accounts of the seminal moments in their careers, at a time when a global audience was captivated by an annual Wimbledon soap opera.

Alongside personal insight, this distinctive period is brought back to life. The series features rich cultural, political and sporting archive as global events like the cold war, the sexual revolution, race relations and the fight for LGBT rights found expression in the Wimbledon Championships, the game's most traditional sporting arena.

Stream the entire series free at SBS On Demand on 6 December, or tune in weekly on Wednesdays from 6 December at 7:30pm on SBS.

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Gods of Tennis

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documentary

M

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documentary

M

The Doll Factory - Season 1

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal, this highly-anticipated series is a definite must-watch, starring Esme Creed-Miles (Hanna), Mirren Mack (Sex Education), Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People), George Webster (Wedding Season), Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone) and Saoirse Monica Jackson (Derry Girls).

Set in London, 1850, Iris (Creed-Miles) paints dolls for a living, alongside her twin sister, Rose (Mack). Iris dreams of becoming an artist. By night, she secretly paints herself. Silas (Hardwicke) is a taxidermist who owns a shop filled with his creations. He dreams of one day finding an item so unique he will be catapulted to fame. Louis (Webster) is a painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, searching for his next muse.

When Iris meets Silas, and then Louis, she is offered an opportunity to escape and start a new life. To do so, she must abandon her sister, sacrifice her reputation, and launch herself into the unknown. But as Iris’ world expands, a story of dark obsession begins to unfold...

Stream all episodes of The Doll Factory free on SBS On Demand from Thursday 7 December, or tune in for double episodes weekly on Thursdays from 7 December at 9:30pm on SBS.

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The Doll Factory

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drama

MA15+

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drama

MA15+

Everyone Else Burns - Season 1

Pictured: (L-R) Amy James-Kelly as Rachel, Kate O'Flynn as Fiona, Simon Bird as David and Harry Connor as Aaron in Everyone Else Burns. Credit: James Stack

This biting coming-of-age comedy follows a British family and their conservative Christian sect.

Will patriarchal David Lewis (Simon Bird; The Inbetweeners) ever ascend the church ranks and become an Elder? Will dutiful wife Fiona deviate from her own dogmatic moral compass? Will their naïve 17-year-old daughter Rachel (Amy James-Kelly; Blood, Sex & Royalty) be allowed to go to university, and will 12-year-old son Aaron ever fend off his secular bullies?

Everyone Else Burns is a subversive, authentic and bitingly funny exploration into what it feels like to balance faith, family and identity in a world that could end tomorrow (but probably won't).

Stream the entire series free at SBS On Demand on 7 December.

Stream free On Demand

Everyone Else Burns

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comedy

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comedy

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Prisoner - Season 1

The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl leads the cast of this Danish Noir, which revolves around the lives of four prison officers—Henrik (David Dencik), Miriam (Gråbøl), Sammi (Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt), and Gert (Charlotte Fich). Their personal problems and secrets are reflected and amplified by the dynamics of their common workplace – the prison. The story kicks off when they are forced to do major changes in the prison to save their jobs. The prison will ultimately close unless they manage to correct the bad press, hierarchy and drug trade dominating the workplace. The new changes turns into a battle for survival - not only for the prison but for everyone inside and outside the walls.

Stream the entire series free at SBS On Demand on 7 December.

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Prisoner

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drama • 

Danish

MA15+

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Danish

MA15+

Monterossi - Season 1

Carlo Monterossi is a 50-year-old disillusioned television writer who owes his success to trashy programs he hates. When he decides to leave the world of TV forever, he becomes embroiled in a mysterious series of crimes. In his search he will meet many eccentric characters, a few too many dead bodies and some truly incredible cases... An investigative thriller with a comic twist based on the popular detective novels by Alessandro Robecchi.

Stream the entire series free at SBS On Demand on 14 December.

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Monterossi

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crime • 

Italian

MA15+

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crime • 

Italian

MA15+

Snow - Season 1

SNOW, Brigitte Hobmeier Credit: OLIVER OPPITZ PHOTOGRAPHY

A climate-themed noir, Snow centres on a terrifying scenario: What if nature strikes back to heal wounds of the past?

The lack of snow threatens the winter resort of Rotten with disaster. When the melting glacier releases a corpse, old secrets and new desires come to light, and Lucia, the newly-arrived doctor, gets caught in a maelstrom of strange occurrences that cause a rift in her family. Little by little, Lucia unearths the village’s secret surrounding the corpse they discovered. She believes neither in fate nor in the supernatural, but when her daughter disappears, Lucia is forced to accept her mission: To save Alma, she must face the mystery of the mountains.

Stream the entire series free at SBS On Demand on 21 December.

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Snow

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German

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German

M

Letterkenny - *Final Season*

All good things must come to an end, eh? Break out the maple leaf handkerchiefs to bid farewell to the residents of Letterkenny, Ontario. Season 12 has been confirmed as the Canadian comedy classic's final run. They'll live on in a complete series box set and you can relive the capers of the loveable Hicks, and their continuing spinoff, Shoresy.

Stream the new season from 28 December. Previous seasons already available now.

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Letterkenny

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sitcom

MA15+

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sitcom

MA15+

Porni - Season 3

This ViaPlay dramedy keeps delivering with each new season, with its warm and funny, and occasionally raw, depiction of a single mum trying to embrace the chaos of the everyday, raise her kids well, find love, and try to do the right thing (*most of the time). Find out why critics and audiences are raving about this offbeat Nordic gem, when season 3 joins our growing series box set.

Stream the new season from 28 December. Previous seasons already available now.

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Pørni

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Comedy drama • 

Norwegian Bokmål

MA15+

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Comedy drama • 

Norwegian Bokmål

MA15+

Pagan Peak - Season 3

The icy German thriller returns for a new season, joining our series box set. The third season brings two estranged detectives back together when a series of mysterious murders grip both sides of the German/Austrian border. The case places high demands on detectives Ellie and Gedeon and confronts the two investigators with their own history.

Stream the new season from 28 December. Previous seasons already available now.

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Pagan Peak

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German

MA15+

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thriller • 

German

MA15+